Real rescue and adoption stories, practical pet-care guides, and dog news from across India, updated regularly by the Dog with Blog pack.
You will recall that I recently received the Nobel Prize for Peace for ‘significant contributions to the development of inter-species cooperation and harmony’. And why not? Are only human beings entitled to strive for peace amongst them? (If Barrack Obama can win one, so can canine!)
The dog wins Nobel prize! Read More »
Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday’s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
As United States warms up to 2012 presidential campaign, the media is abuzz with stories surrounding Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Earlier this year, quite a stir was caused by the Dog wars between presidential candidates. While Romney was in the eye of storm for putting his dog on the roof of the car during a 1983 family trip to Canada, Obama drew ire for having tried dog meat during his growing up years in Indonesia.
US Presidents Dogs – a brief history of the top dogs! Read More »
Searching for a mate is a complex activity for most dogs. As a resident canine advisor on marital problems, I see a vast spectrum of issues, many of which could have been avoided if the dogs in question had just taken the trouble to apply their minds before proceeding.
Musings on Mating: A scholarly article from Dr Chunnu Murthy BTech/MBA/PhD (Harvard) Read More »
“Instead of teaching tolerance and empathy towards animals, I have seen parents transfer their fear of animals to their children. So, when the adults are not around, and I’m walking Veeroo (my Red Setter), I encourage kids to come and make friends with him. On one such meet-and-greet occasion, one nine-year old girl asked me if I had got the “poison removed from the dog’s teeth”! I’ve never heard anything more bizarre and I’m sure the girl must have learnt this from her parents or adults around her! Sheesh
New York Times on Indian stray dogs: Crassly unfair Read More »
James Herriot was a Vet who wrote some fine books about his experiences dealing with animals. Many people assume that such books do not constitute serious literature. They are wrong. To be able to delve into the mind on an animal and weave entire stories is not easy at all. I myself occasionally fail to understand the peculiar behaviour of my colleague VM, but on the whole, he seems tolerable and
non-interfering, if slightly dull. I amuse myself by manipulating him every now and then and have a few laughs. But I digress.
All Creatures Great and Small: Book review Read More »
I don’t drink.
Don’t get me wrong, some of the most interesting people I have come across- family, friends or fictional characters, have had more alcohol concentration in their blood than hemoglobin. And I have had no problem whatsoever loving them. I am not judging them, after all what bad can alcohol do to people except for turning some of them into little agents of chaos─ verbal vertigo, vomit and violence:)
Why dogs don’t drink? Read More »
Violinist, voracious reader, social media expert and a celebrated writer, Vasudev wears many hats and that too with panache! Aloof of the worldly whims he enjoys the company of his beloved dogs. Obliging Kaalicharan’s perpetual requests for a bed time story, Vasudev dug out a humorous story which is supposedly written by a dog. Look out for by the mystifying conclusion to this trancing tale!
The secret life of woofs! Read More »
“Dogs are minor angels, and I don’t mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it’s “only” a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day– we’re just so used to them that we pay no attention.”
― Jonathan Carroll
Dogs are minor angels… Read More »
Remember the exuberance that electrified you when you brought home your beloved best buddy for the first time? The tinker of paws, the innocence in eyes and the poop troubles! In this endearing guest post, Ankush Bahuguna chronicles the events that led to Sheero’s homecoming.
When a dog comes home! Read More »
There are women you write poems about and those you don’t. And if you keep scribbling you would come across a woman who transcends words, worlds and everything in between. I was fortunate for I found mine.
Happy b’day Maa!
Happy Birthday Maa! Read More »
I am a Puppy, and I am a creature with feelings and drives much like your own, but yet also very different. Although I am NOT a human in a dog suit, neither am I an unfeeling robot who can instantly obey your every whim. I truly DO want to please you, and be a part of your family, and your life. You got me (I hope) because you want a loving partner and companion, so do not relegate me to the backyard when I get bigger, do not judge me harshly but instead mold me with gentleness and guidelines and training into the kind of family member you want me to be.
Letter from the pup Read More »
Ever wondered of deciphering the spell that weaves syllables to words and words to fragments of fiction? Imaginations pinned against or with each other to form stories. Stories that could have been true or wait in earnest to be true─ somewhere along the narrow path where reason halts and hope soars. Our friend Poonam Relwani shares a short story about love, longing and that resounding laughter of reunions.
True love never forgets… Read More »
Image courtesy @Fernfly “Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not
Moments that matter Read More »
For over 14 years your friendship has guided me through…from being a homeless stray in an Almora garage to being the spoilt brat of ours! You saw me from my half pant days to well, half pant days again.
RIP Rusty | Losing a pet Read More »
There are some moments surreal as a dream.
Calm as a cat.
You twitch a brow and the balance is perturbed.
A desire to see a different world in place of the real.
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” ― Johnny Depp
Surreal as a dream Read More »
Almost every fortnight I get that odd adoption update- family abandoning an old dog/ Mr. Highflyer leaving for foreign shores and putting up pet for adoption and so forth.
Out of an average life span of a decade, someone gives you unadulterated love for every passing second and you got the nerves to call it quits?
Life, Interrupted – I adopted your dog today Read More »
As you turn a new leaf today, marking the 14th year of our growing up together, I hope time takes a brief stall. I yearn to return to the cold floor underneath the bed, your secret hiding place, the Underworld…where you hid your treasures…rubber lizards, calcium bones, ferns and at times, mangoes. I hope I never grow too old to visit your place.
Happy Birthday Rusty! Read More »
This is the rambling of an almost forgotten dog, forgotten to self, forgotten to cats, to other dogs, and to the world. And he waits — thinking and scribbling, and thinking and scribbling for precisely nothing. And his wait — tragic in fate, existence and essence, mocks him.
“But I don’t“, he said, “want a place of my own in this city of blinding lights; I don’t yearn for rooting myself in the urban Diaspora.”
Syllables of silence… Read More »
This road is not mine to take,
But to follow,
As destiny paves my way.
These streets know my name,
As I know theirs.
They have carried me near and afar;
Waved me goodbye when hope has called me,
And welcomed me upon returning with my shattered dreams.
One day, I will take to the skies,
Like the birds I watch from the stairs at the temple.
I will embrace the Forgotten ones,
Breathe life into the hearts of all human beings,
And make every road lead to Home.
4 stray dog poems on love and loneliness Read More »
The Artist breathes fresh life into the dissonance of modern cinema by reliving the cinematic excellence of golden era. Sound; sometimes is but noise in the scheme of a screenplay that speaks for it self. The Artist showcases the bygone era in a light that is enigmatic & endearing; enchanting & entertaining! Weaved with a dream like essence, the movie outlives the details, paying a tribute to silent era with an eloquence of silence. This film may be silent but it is making emphatic cinematic noise this year at the Oscars!
The Artist Movie review Read More »
And who knows for sure if salvation lies in recluse or lurks in love. For when you get too close to a person, the intimacy fades out the world.
I must confess I have never been a fan of ‘Valentines Day’. Earmarking a solitary day in the calendar for the most passionate emotion in the universe confirms that dollar has forayed into the cupid’s domain. Some of the most endearing tales I have known have had love as a perennial plot.
Love’s labor lost… Read More »
Migrating to a new city never comes easy; to some it is like erasing locus to an acquainted circle ─ streets, markets, familiar faces…one point at a time. Somewhere between unwinding to unfamiliar lands and embracing opportunities, one feels alienated. Some men (and women too, see I am not gender biased) are for sure an island but for others looking at a relation beyond the internet, there is always a friend in the waiting─ the dog!
A friend from Deccan – an endearing dog Read More »
It has been 13 years since Rusty, named after celebrated writer Ruskin Bond, marked her way into my life and with the very first ink pot that she spilled over the ruled notebook, she had me inked forever. Little had I known that the blots would seep through from my childhood to youth along with chords struck and comic books collected. Rusty has earmarked nearly every episode from my memory. The crests and troughs─ the jejune crushes, the fear of organic chemistry, the heights of jovial times and the ignominy of loss; she has been everywhere with me.
Memories of my first pet…of inkblots & Rusty Read More »
