When a skinny brown foster pup landed up at my place, the trainer in me saw all the “oh nos! ” – 1) fear of men, 2) barking at things that were novel to her, 3) a horrible habit of jumping on people (that she loved) and 4) a propensity to play rough with dogs….

My first case in the pandemic, in May 2020, was my first ever online case. Peppa and Zoey are two gorgeous INDog-mixes. Unfortunately they had been getting into vicious fights, with Peppa instigating most of them! It is extremely hard to assess dog behaviour online, and equally hard to gauge the human-dog relationship digitally. They…

Like a lot of small dogs, Bob the Shih Tzu was suspicious of a hand approaching him (learn more about “hand shyness” here). He was more than “hand shy” – instead of merely ducking away, he would snap and lunge if his owners touched him. In Bob’s case, there was some history of pain and…

In this day of Google, Instagram and so many ‘dog people’ around, why are we continually failing our dogs? My two behaviour consults from a recent weekend summarized here: Desi dog, 2-3 months old, Rescued by a do-gooder, kept in the garden for the entire ‘foster period’ i.e. socialization period, and re-homed to a working…

We took 3 pupperful days to drive from Delhi to Bombay this June 🙂 I’ll talk about the doggo part here, and you can direct all your driving/route questions to Koval Bhatia because I don’t drive. Rajasthan Ajmer: We had originally planned to drive to Ghanerao Castle in Pali , but our car tyres had…

Charlie was your typical desi puppy dog: Recovering from some street trauma, shy, fearful of dogs and extremely unsure of new environments. The period between 3 weeks to 12 weeks is one of the most critical periods for socialization. Negative experiences and associations made in this period can last a lifetime, often manifesting in ‘problem…