Incidently, my nieces are involved in a number of shelters. I think indian attitudes towards dogs are changing as they are in ever increasing contact with the west. I live in Oregon and I’m so proud of my state who has a 100% adoption rate. Every dog and cat finds a home.

This world needs more humans like your mom. *bows down*
I hope and pray that Kalu like a knight will fade off all the wicked attempts of the municipal authorities. May he find a home he can call his own real soon.

On another note, I am a mastiff myself and am often called by this moniker, Kaalu (initiated for Kaalicharan).

The friendly neighbourhood dog, “kalu” as we lovingly call him, has been the victim of numerous municipality attempts at taking strays to pounds where they’re put to death. But our community people have stood up for him. These animals are truly like friends/family, wonderful and loyal companions and should be treated with the respect and compassion that they deserve!

There were times when the same conundrum engulfed me; of trivial details and meager numbers. Believe me lady, even one act of kindness resonates till eternity. It makes a difference for that one lost stray in the wild world. Remember the starfish story?

There are days when I think of all this and more. Of the contrast between the life my pet has, pampered as a child by my Mum, loved even more than me and then of the countless animals on the roads. I think all this and then i think of you and me, and the the few left who try and make it better. Maybe it doesn’t make much difference, maybe it’s not enough.

But it’s better than nothing, and maybe someday, someday, there will be more on our side, and on our furry friend’s side, after all it is on the same side of the line.

Hi Jaya,

The pictures put in at the facebook page are community curated. I post what they submit, the community needs crowd sourcing. However if you look at the blog posts that have been drafted by me, nowhere I have promoted ‘breed blindness’. Despite frequent requests by fans on doing ‘breed profiles’, ‘posting mating ads’ or decling some magazines to tie up with them for endorsing breed promotions, the blog has maintained its voice.

As for posting pictures of stray dogs for adoptions, I have always posted them when I have received or taken them myself. But my full time employment limits me to depend on crowd sourcing. The blog doesn’t aspire to be a NGO, nor asks for funds/support but subtly tries to draw a kind wave towards animals.

Facebook provides an option of highlighting prominent posts to the top of the page for maximum eyeballs, if you would analyze the posts those 8/10 posts that you have refeered to have been highlighted and shared the most so that the needy gets a home. (See: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=436536846389166&set=a.165417113501142.33086.122205421155645&type=1&theater)

I wish you all the best for your ”therapy project” but I don’t subscribe to the idea of being biased towards foreign breeds. I have always had strays as my pets as opposed to foreign breeds but I have nothing against foreign breeds, disliking a foreign breed serves no purpose for I believe that a dog is a dog, with the same loving heart and that welcoming tail.

NGOs and organizations are claiming to change the world, I am but a dog who is doing what he thinks he can. I am sorry if some of my posts have led to you to believe that I am biased towards breeds, for that I am not.

You seem to be a dog lover just like me. I have always hated this strange behavior in us Indians that we like the phirangi dog breeds like crazy but don’t give a second look to the strays -some of whom are extremely affectionate and always the best gene pool among canines….

I had liked your page on facebook a while back and since then have been appalled at all the pictures of non Indian breeds that you keep putting up there…for every 10 pictures posted 8 are of foreign breeds like Labrador retrievers, St. Bernard’s,etc

Aren’t you encouraging this whole foreign breeds are better than your “nameless Indian stray dog” who don’t deserve their pictures posted there except once in a while?

We need to change the perception of desis regarding this and your pics aren’t helping….When I take a break from corporate world in US, it’s my idea to get in to training of therapy dogs and pass tihs training on to India through shelters that I have supported through the years. I will make sure that not a single non Indian dog breed is trained in therapy (even if I know that there are certain dog breeds that are considered more trainable than others).

I wish you would change what you are doing…

Thanks for the kind words, warm welcoming woofs your way! 🙂

This world needs more folks like you.

Thanks Krutika, the world needs more people with compassion.