Abhishek Joshi founded Dog with Blog in 2009 and has grown it into a 100,000-strong community that has helped place 900+ dogs and cats in homes across India. He writes evidence-based pet-care guides, runs verified foster and adoption listings, and tells the stories that move people to adopt.
His writing for Dog with Blog appears in The Book of Dog, an anthology alongside Ruskin Bond, Gulzar, Maneka Gandhi and chef Vikas Khanna.
Tens of thousands of dogs will be put to death because this is the only way our authorities know how to deal with this. It’s easier; it’s cheaper so it must be better? But then humans see numbers over emotions. Here are the facts: Bucharest in the period 2001-2007 has been spent almost 9 million to kill 144,000 dogs (62 Euros per head). Sterilization instead only costs 20-25 Euros per dog.
Romania, No country for dogs Read More »
And sometimes
words are but an aberration,
a divulge for all
that the pixels stole away.
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Of the myriad themes and genres I have touched, animal movies have always ruled the roost. From the well known to the relatively obscure, this dog has compiled a list of some cinematic gems you might enjoy. I have skipped some popular titles like Marley and Me, March of the Penguins, Cats and Dogs, Free Willy etc. for most of you would have already watched them.
11 Best Movies for Animal Lovers Read More »
After a fair decade, I returned to the world of Lemony Snicket. I borrowed Beatrice letters from Fernfly, devouring it to the core. How right was C.S. Lewis when he quoted,” A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story.”, profound!
In this guest post Amrita Paul questions the indifference the so called ‘pet-owners’ have towards the homeless dogs. Is the pedigree and a collar that necessary for our friend; to have not the privilege of a pet, but at least the equal rights to survive?
Engrained into the Scottish folklore like bagpipes, the story of the love and a loyalty of a dog, Greyfriars Bobby is the stuff of legend and has been the subject of Hollywood movies and numerous books, Our Swede friend Virve shares her experience on visiting Bobby’s shrine.
Greyfriars Bobby ― Scottish legend of a dog’s loyalty Read More »
All that’s grace and poise, elegance and trance, I found neither in tapestries nor tiara but in a lady with her dog.
The Lady with the Dog Read More »
“The signs of wisdom”, the old man said, “are the realizations that the volume knob also turns left and the fact that best of friends come with a tail and a cold, wet nose”.
Sometimes in between the paragraph
while you look for that lost word
or when you draw that doodle on the marginalia
a pencil dangling in your slender fingers
caressing that lock of untamed hair…
When I close my eyelids deterring to the noise of the world ─ a cauldron about to bubble over, veering my thoughts to all that will remain placid and unchanged by time, oblivious to the humans passing me by, there by the orchard Rusty forever be chasing my demons away. To her I would always be the boy who never grew up.
Nobel laureate and TIME magazine’s Person of the century Albert Einstein changed our understanding of the world as we knew it unlike any other scientist. In 1905, hailed as the renaissance year for science, Einstein published four research papers and toppled over 200 years of scientific fundamentals with theory of relativity giving, perhaps, the world’s most famous equation, E=mc². Einstein was fond of animals and enjoyed the company of cats and dogs around him.
A dog, few cats, and Albert Einstein Read More »
And when marred by urban humility, the stasis clogs, you realize what you lost and what was lost in you. Forgetting all the troubles of the world outside the periphery of the mountains – letting go of dates and days, forgiving bosses and escaping the burden of thoughts only the realize the weight of water in the backpack.
Roopkund trek review, over the hills and far away Read More »
Book review “Dog Songs” by Mary Oliver.
Mary Oliver Dog songs – soulful poetry! Read More »
Obedience and selfless dedication has often proved fatal for my kindred friends, the Beagles. As a subject of choice for lab tests for pharmaceutical or cosmetic products, they often end up having spent an entire lifetime in cages and laboratory confinements. Imagine, the plight of a dog having never seen the open skies or the green pastures to roll on. Not even an iota of sunlight but syringes and chemicals.
Rescuing laboratory Beagles in India Read More »
Not sure what I wanted to do with my life or who I wished to be, the lost ward that I was, marveled at the words. I was engrossed in the note when I met the ire of jealous seniors.
A fair decade in between and if you discount what I quote at interviews, I still am clueless as to what I want.
Mary Oliver Dog Poems Read More »
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale
4 Heartwarming Rescue Stories That You Must Read Read More »
“I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!”
War Horse movie review ─ a tender tale! Read More »
Spinning the yarn of tales, one bestseller after the another, ardent dog lover Preeti Shenoy wears many hats. In this exclusive guest post for Dog with Blog she shares of her canine camaraderie.
Any dog-lover will vouch that the world is sharply divided into two—those who love dogs and those who don’t understand the former.
Preeti Shenoy on Humans and dogs Read More »
In that momentary reverie by the turquoise waters of Kosi river, I realized what I had come to.
What I had lost and yet what was not lost in me.
Time leaps but vagrants remain enshrined — sometimes like footprints sealed in fossils and at others; resting like pebbles in the river bed, once touched and forever waiting.
Vagrants in the wild Read More »
Blizzard and Phoneix, our canine correspondents for arts & entertainment wonder why Academy awards are that big a deal?
The Dog wins Oscar? Read More »
Some cities are like magnets; their poles attract you without reason. You don’t visit them for official work, relatives or distant cousins but for some weird reason as if the city’s randomness is your true calling. You visit them like a hermit seeking solace. And every visit is marked by a longing – to meet a lost childhood friend. Some cities are like magnets; their poles attract you with their own reasons.
Chandigarh is one such city.
Chandigarh dog lover ─ ex-serviceman looks after stray dogs Read More »
But I know that she is coming close to a point where she will stop being a dog, and instead, be part of everything. She’ll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go. I just can’t leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I’m afraid she’ll die and I won’t have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to pick which socks to wear to bed.
Musician Fiona Apple cancels tour to be with her dying dog Read More »
I still miss her! Sometimes I think about her motionless body lying across the road. I will always regret not taking pictures of her, but at times I have images of her standing on the road and looking up at me in my balcony with those amazing brown-hazel eyes.
A dog, never to be forgotten! Read More »
“Any grand plans for Valentine’s day?” quizzed Kaalicharan’s baritone voice.
“When have I had any?”
“But,” smiling sheepishly he added, “You aren’t a dog”.
“Who knows if I am” with a sigh, the pseudo philosopher in me heaved, “a dog inside this human flesh”
Snoopy, Calvin and Hobbes Valentines Day Read More »
