Google loves dogs
With the advent of winter, I have turned insensate to the urge to write. There are instances wherein exquisitely stung by the thought, I have looked for the
Abhishek Joshi
Founder, Dog with BlogAbhishek 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.
‘Just a dog poem’ & Johnny Depp’s absolutely awesome speech!
How many times have you heard the phrase ‘just a dog’ before? Be it when you are standing for a mute animal or raising concern over an atrocious act. How many times have you faced the heat of cynical eyes darting you in an obnoxious manner?
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What one man can do?
Always remember that it is one song that can herald rain, it is one step that starts a journey and it is one life that can bring about a change. In the words of Peter Roebuck, ‘Spirit is the difference between cement and ice. One lasts the course, the other goes to water when the heat is on.’
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The World’s Cutest Best Man!
Love is…having someone to hold.
In the ever wandering worldly chores, heart finds solace in the company of a comforting friend.
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Before you adopt a dog – Promises that you must keep
There would be times when you would come across incidents where a dog has been abandoned by a family. The reason may be because of an injury the dog suffered, a disease that he caught, re-location of the family because of job changes etc. If you divulge into the deeper details, all these are merely lame excuses. If you get a dog, remember it’s family! And you don’t really shun a family member on the above accounts. It’s rather better to not have adopted a pet than to treat him as a commodity destined for the same fate as that of a tawdry fashion item. My nostrils flare when such gross news are reported. Please understand that it’s a beating heart full of love, loyalty & friendship that you have adopted. There are responsibilties that you must live upto. Please, remember that you are the harbinger of joy and the elixir of life for the muted species.
You are the hope and he is the heart!
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Lessons from the dog!
For long dogs have been falsely accused of eating the homework, we don’t really mind it as long as it saves our young friends from the teacher’s ire 🙂 Good old Calvin had quipped, “I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.” I have always believed that teaching isn’t restricted to classrooms and lectures, the real learning happen in the open world. If we look closely, we can learn from everybody and everything around us. Here, I would like to share an email forward that aims to embark for you the portals of learning from the wisdom of barks.
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Humans Are Our Best Friends!
The lady renowned for her sharp wits, wisdom bytes and satirical posts lends her pen for this special edition! This time she treads on the lifestyle and concerns of some lucky pets she had observed.
Although I have known and befriended pets with good life and strays with a dismal distressing life alike, I still hope that compassion is the miracle drug that would ensure that the plight of the less fortunate ones is taken into account.
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Is there something like Animal Intelligence?
I wonder if you have harbored wishes of having conversations with animals, remember Dr. Dolittle? 🙂
Animals are smarter than most of us think them to be. Animals have always had intellectual abilities however what fauna friends refer to as intelligence might be entirely different from human definitions. It’s like searching for life in far off galaxies, but then life forms in a particular planet may be in contrast with what we have here. To us motion, respiration, activity etc. might be vital signs of life but who knows if for a green alien in Mars life means being in vegetative state? Similar is the quest for animal intelligence and as far as I am concerned I never had a doubt about it.
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BBC finds tigers in Himalayas!
The big cat has always had an aura of alacrity around it. Amidst fears of their extinction, there have been resounding rumours — sometimes loud and at others whispers that the tigers roam and rove in the mountains of Bhutan. Following the trail of this rattling rumour, an expedition was undertaken by BBC Natural History Unit. The team captured the images of a snow leopard cub from over 5000 meters in the air.
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60+ Best Dog Quotes
There is something about these quotations– an air of philosophy which would make you ponder over a thought, a tincture of humor to spruce up your day and at times the whimsical poignance of the written word to caress you into a lullaby.
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Gucci and me
When it comes to canines, interspecies altruism takes an altitudinal elevation. Countless tales which have become part of glistening anecdotes pave the relic road of archives which sometimes moisten the eyes or draw a smile. Uncannily there are even times when both the emotions are in a symphony, ever seen it rain while the Sun is out?
No country For Elephants?
India offers some of the strangest set of contrasting juxtapositions when it comes to wildlife. With animals being an integral part of the celebrated cultural and religious ethos, it comes as no surprise when one comes across temples where milk is offered to snakes or abodes where monkeys and langurs are as much a part of the milieu as devotees. In the heartland of India, one can see ladies offering the ‘rotis'(chapati) to cows and stray dogs. It is the land where animals are embedded so deep in the religion that half the deities have an animal as their preferred mode of transportation.
Elephant is declared as the ‘national heritage animal’ of India.
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Jallikattu- the juggernaut that must be stopped!
Modernity is a myth, if it doesn’t abolishes orthodoxies which don’t find a sync in the moral views of the new world.
Every year a sleepy village in Tamil Nadu comes to mainstream media spotlight. Decorations and delight all around, the celebration is impregnated in the air and as hoards of spectators huddle together, the human perimeter around the field sinks in the fanfare. The frenzy of both locals and foreign tourists reaches an avalanche- a rural celebration of epic proportions? Wait.
Into this grand setting that may remind you of a tight budgeted amphitheater, an infuriated bull is unleashed — adorned with tawdry accessories, rubbed with bright colours and with money tied around its horns.
Animal cruelty knows no bounds when it comes to humans.
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Share a photo of your dog!
Starting today, we would be celebrating the bond that transgresses the said and done, the friendship between those with ‘two leg’ & those with four- be it your pet, the stray that you befriended, your cousin’s pet or the like. The concept of “interspecies altruism” would be cherished and communicated through YOU. So mail me your pictures, anecdotes, tales about your furry friends and I’d be more than happy to post them for the world to see!
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The absolutely best Calvin and Hobbes comics ever!
The wonderful duo of Calvin & Hobbes which guided me through those innocent days of childhood is a part of my memoirs as vivid and lively as the moments that I have lived, here’s my list of favorite Calvin & Hobbes strips on issues ranging from environment to death.
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When Sir Isaac Newton’s dog caused a fire
The sense and sensibility displayed by animals have always amused humans. The smartness displayed by animals under stressing conditions and emergencies reveal a side of them which both, bemuses and bewitches readers. Being the companion of men from time immemorial,dogs have always bemused us.
Newton and his dog feature in this anecdote about virtues of patience, love and friendship.
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Which came first egg or the chicken?
It is said that age old mysteries have a vintage charm of their own. Be it the Stonehedge, the Pyramids, legend of Troy or the lost city of Atlantis, the myth and the magic surrounding them has kept us enchanted for long.
But then none of the conundrums can quite match the enigma surrounding the chicken or the egg dilemma; perhaps for its sheer simplicity to invite responses even from toddlers or baffling the brains of homo sapiens, failing to come to a consensus.
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Stop Canada Seal Hunt!
Just in time for Canada Day, PETA will be running its new “Explore Elsewhere” ad featuring a rendition of Canada’s national anthem “O Canada” playing over footage of baby seals as they are clubbed to death. The ad will run on Google and several travel blogs this week to let potential tourists researching Canadian summer vacations know that the Canadian government still sponsors the annual seal slaughter, which just concluded in Newfoundland. World leaders as diverse as Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and His Holiness The Dalai Lama have spoken out against the controversial massacre.
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Paul the Octopus and Billy the cat: the animals who predict World Cup winners
If you thought African safari would be all about terrain raiders, the big cats and the elephants…think twice, for no other animal friend of mine has attracted more eyeballs in this World cup than the sea voyager, eight-limbed oracle- Octopus!
Two year- old Paul, the octopus who was born in Britain and later moved to the German aquarium in Oberhausen has been quite a sensation in FIFA world cup 2010 with a cent percent record when it came to predicting German team’s results at the 4 year event.
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Why Dogs are better!
My dogmail is usually flooded with forward messages from my furry friends. Yesterday while I was checking my inbox, amidst the milieu of mails with subjects like “Crash course on how to threaten a cat”, “What annoys a cat the most” etcetera, there was a mail from Gucci(the one who keeps Runa as his roomy) It read about how dogs are better than Women.
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Best Print Ads featuring dogs!
Following up my post on Tv commercials & canines, here are some of my favorite print ads centered around good old dogs 🙂 I have so much to say about these wonderfully created advertisements yet as they say- a picture is worth a thousand words hence I must leave you with the prints.
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Bouquets & brouhaha…the dog wins!
1. Asked someone to marry you? Guilty. Well, dogs are known for their witty demeanour as well 🙂
Roll on the red carpets, give way to the metallic grey Limousine, hold your cameras and bask in the glory of the audacious canine, for as they say every dog has his day 🙂
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What happens when Engineer owns dog
In the daily humdrum, sandwiched between ambitions and tomorrows we often tend to miss upon the great little joys of today. That call to your mother, the long pending
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FIFA 2010: the beautiful game!
As I scribble this, the biggest spectacle on the planet is precisely 2 days,11 hours and 50 minutes(as per FIFA timekeeper) from letting the lid afar from the cocktail of emotions, euphoria, dreams and heartbreaks! The FIFA world Cup 2010 is eagerly awaited by the animal kingdom too. Surprised? Here’s to the cynics like good old Calvy , check out this video showcasing the soccer skills of my friends from Kalahari desert.
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