dogs club

The K Gang and I just learned about this adorable Indy living in our neighbourhoood! We're very excited!  His human Vitek sent in his story and these cute photos: Eliot was born on the roadside in Bangalore, outside a friend's building. His litter had been run over by a truck and many of his siblings were killed. My friend put up a post on Facebook looking for people to adopt them. This was in 2008, and I was living in a city away from family and friends. At the time I was not looking for a dog. I knew what a big responsibility it was. But I was in a transient phase of my life, and I went over to see the pups, if anything, just to play with them. They were all friendly and loving, and I decided I would adopt one. Choosing a pup is difficult, but one of them kept coming up and jumping on me. The choice was easy. A few minutes later, he was in a cardboard box in my car off to start his new life. The first few nights he whimpered and shivered - it was equally scary for both of us....

In February 2008, two gorgeous Indies appeared on the Martha Stewart Dog Show in NYC. They were Yvonne de Kock's Leela and Caroline Walker's India. Yvonne talked about Indian Pariah Dogs and how unique they are. Another woman named Yvonne, in another part of the US, watched the episode with great interest, because she had adopted a dog from India too - a beauty named Katie, who happened to look quite a lot like Leela! She 'googled' Indian Pariah Dogs and found our project. And that's how Katie first appeared in this blog, back in 2008. You can see her adorable puppy photos and read about her in these posts: Katie  Katie revisited Katie turns 15 And today she makes her last, and posthumous, appearance in this blog. Katie passed peacefully in March, just short of her 16th birthday.  Her health had degenerated and she was put to sleep to prevent more suffering. 'She had lost mobility in her back legs, and could no longer get up and down stairs or out to the yard,...

Manik Godbole's wonderful happy Indy family regularly appeared in this blog since I first started writing it in 2007. Tommy, Blacky and Chinky were friends of mine and I am so grateful I had the opportunity to show them off here. (At the end of this post there is a list of links to their stories). Here is Manik's story about INDog-mix Tara, her old friend who has recently become her family member! 'The first dog is the dog that gives so much that the first dog is often the reason for the second dog!!' So truly quoted... Tommy came into my life and brought along so many more canine friends to grace my life with pure love and bliss. Blacky followed Tommy and then came Madame Chinky... Blacky passed away very young due to hemangiosarcoma, when he was barely five and a half years old. Tommy passed in May 2015, and Chinky decided to follow him...she passed away on 2 October 2016. She was barely ten years old. In January 2008, a small brown frail female dog was first spotted ...

Gaurab Jyoti Kalita sent in these photos and the story of his beautiful little INDog puppy! 'I want to write about our most adorable and youngest family member.  Dingo is an Indian Pariah Dog who came into our lives last Christmas. I rescued him from a narrow irrigation canal near Manas National Park, Assam. After rescuing him, I waited almost three hours for his mother or other members of his family. After that, when there was no sign of any mother dog, I brought him to my home. He was only about one month old. He was the best Christmas gift I ever had! But the problems started soon after. He simply refused to take any food for the first one and a half days. Then I gave him his first bath with lukewarm water and carried him to my bedroom, and that night he started eating. First he took a little bit of boiled rice with milk, and after a few days he started eating dog food, biscuits, yogurt, orange and pumpkin. Pumpkin is still his favourite food. 15 January was another memorable da...

Lalee 15 March 2001 - 11 May 2011 Portraits by Heather Fener, 2009

How we dogs lost Nagaon Beach 'We still go to the beach. But it isn't really there any more. OUR beach. It used to be ours. Vast, empty, stretching away as far as we could see. We remember everything. Our leashes would be taken off, and we would race away, out of the Human World, into Dog World! There was Brownie; and Spotted Girl; and White Dog; and Friend and his brothers; Sasha and his two sisters; and Buffalo Dog; Raja the doberman; and the terrible Brindlebrown; and other dogs with no names! Friends, enemies, acquaintances. All dogs!  There were hardly any people there, back then. Just one of our humans, sometimes both our humans, sometimes a couple more here and there. Sometimes a knot of people far far away, who didn't bother us, and we didn't bother them. Everyone was happy. We would just be dogs, in Dog World; where humans stand by and watch.  And there we'd stay and sniff and explore and bark and challenge and growl and run and discover and play; until it ...