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.
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 »
A cursory glance on facebook and it’s easy to delve in the wave of wedding updates. The delirious setting gets still creepier when the question gets popped out of unassuming corners. At office cubicle, over a cafeteria conversation or an impromptu conversation, there is always someone who wishes to inquire ‘when’ as if the gyrations of the planet depend on a matrimonial.
It is no secret that I don’t believe in humans with a halo over their head ― the ayatollahs, sacrosanct religious gurus and Swami Holier-than-thou and the Ulema Ulysses.
It is the hound I trust in. Period.
Always have. Always will.
The meaning of life Read More »
So it’s really no wonder that when it comes to dating and finding a life partner, someone that likes animals is a plus, and someone that loves dogs is a must. A lot of people in dating sites claim that they like dogs but it turns out that they just click on a box to make themselves sound caring. The real feelings will come across if you’re on a date and you come across a dog and you can see their real reaction to them.
Deal Breaker: Must love dogs. Read More »
All that my paws can find amid ferns are some wedding invites, electricity bills and newspaper inserts. No one has written to me in ages. No, I don’t count the email. I yearn to feel the texture of paper with words in them. Words; written and not typed. Words impregnated with inks of those who held love. Words, weaving tales of a land from far off, of people I know or once knew. Some crisscrosses, scribbles on the marginalia, darkened impressions which seem to stress on the line, conveying a longing to return. Words, written days before and yet not swayed by time. Words with their casual curves which have forgotten to age, the ripening feel that only a cat can conceal and yet, reveal.
…of moist laden envelopes and lost letters Read More »
‘Loyalty’ to most of us, conjures up an image of the dog. Histories inked with their unflinching courage, companionship and love. Researchers would tell you that the smartest of us have a vocabulary of 300 words. But anyone who has ever loved a dog knows different. Although the chances are slim but if not for dogs, I hope you do find someone who loves you as much.
10 loyal dogs who waited for their dead humans Read More »
IF….
If you can live without caffeine,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
How enlightened are you? Read More »
Little Owen is a loving boy who like kids his age wears a twinkle in the eyes. What separates him from other children is a rare genetic condition called Schwartz Jampel Syndrome which causes his muscles to be permanently tense. At the tender age of seven, the realization of being different can be catastrophic for a young lad. The constant scrutiny of staring eyes wasn’t welcomed by Owen and hence he gradually withdrew from his social interactions and preferred to stay at home.
You need to know this three-legged dog and his best friend! Read More »
I hosted Cathie in the last leg of her Asian trip. She flew down from Montreal for a Vet volunteer program to help homeless animal friends in Kathmandu. Having known her for three winters, the thought never triggered in me that this mild-mannered French speaking Greek-Canadian girl would rob me of all my hair. I wonder if she got a coat made out of it to brave the North American winds. 🙂
Vet students helping animals in Nepal Read More »
Sitting by the cinders at Himalayan valley, the madness and methods of world don’t really engulf me. It is on such cold evenings that I am reminded of a story Rusty told me in my puppy days. This is a story for my little friends and those of you who still have a kid lurking beneath your mustache and mascara.
So like all stories of yore, it so begins that once upon a time there was a little girl who wanted a puppy. She asked her mother if they could go to the puppy shop and get one little cute ball of fur.
A short story from the dog Read More »
Ten years and counting, a man coming to terms with a broken relation has been left with a cynical take on life and the notion of love. Resigned to the fate of an urban dweller but with roots in hills, he has found his refuge in art and weekend wanderings with his adopted dog ‘Bholu’. On a fateful evening, listening to a radio show he hears a voice he had never forgotten…
Oh, did I tell you it took a decade in the making?
The girl who read Zodiac Read More »
whilst the angst of the society looms large over news channels, print and social media, the word on the street seeks justice. This anger is a necessity and Delhi has no dearth of it. Heck, the wrath that we unleash as road rage would alone suffice! As my incisors wait in earnest to tear through the flesh of the culprit ‘humans’, I hope this cause doesn’t cough up with the passing days but grows into a growl.
Dogs don’t know sin Read More »
