Understanding Dog Behaviour: What Dogs Are Really Trying to Tell Us

Understanding Dog Behaviour

Dogs may not speak our language, but they are constantly communicating. Every bark, tail wag, growl, or quiet withdrawal carries meaning. When we understand why dogs behave the way they do, we stop labelling them as “angry” or “stubborn” and start responding with empathy. Why Do Dogs Get Angry or Aggressive? Most dogs are not […]

How Dogs Experience Time: Why Waiting Hurts Them More Than We Realise

To humans, time is measured in hours and minutes. To dogs, time is measured in absence and presence. When you leave home for work, errands, or travel, your dog doesn’t understand when you’ll return — only that you’re gone. This is why even short separations can feel long and emotionally heavy for them. Dogs Don’t […]

Beyond Food & Walks: The Care Dogs Truly Need (But Rarely Receive)

Most dog-care advice stops at food, walks, and vaccinations. While these are essential, dogs need much more nuanced care — physical, emotional, and environmental — to truly thrive. Respect Their Emotional Memory Dogs remember experiences emotionally, not logically. Harsh scolding, shouting, or sudden isolation can leave lasting fear. Instead of punishment, use calm correction and […]

Care mandate kicks in: Lifetime shelter, food, vax for captured stray dogs

Bengaluru: Stray dogs removed from schools, hospitals, transport hubs or other institutional areas across India should be compulsorily provided lifetime shelter, compulsory sterilisation, detailed feeds and hygiene standards as part of standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued by Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) in line with Supreme Court directions. The care protocol bans releasing stray […]

Thane municipal corporation launches online pet registration system for dog owners

Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has introduced a new online pet registration system, allowing pet owners to apply, pay, and renew their respective pet licences from the comfort of their locations without visiting municipal offices. The registration will currently only be for dogs, but the window for pet cats could open soon. The entire […]

Save Delhi’s Street Dogs An Appeal To The Nation

Recently, the Hon ble Supreme Court has ordered that all stray dogs in Delhi-NCR be captured and confined to shelters within 8 weeks. On paper, this may sound like public safety – but in reality, it will mean mass suffering and death. Street dogs are not criminals, they are sterilized, vaccinated community animals, living alongside […]

One SC order, million problems: How removing over 10 lakh+ dogs could lead to zoonotic diseases & more aggressive strays

The Supreme Court’s directive to move all stray dogs in Delhi-NCR into shelters has set off a scramble among civic authorities — and an outcry from animal welfare advocates — over what many are calling an “unworkable” order. On Monday, the apex court described the stray dog menace as “extremely grim” and ordered the Delhi government and […]

Worry at animal welfare centres: Where do they go after recovery? Sparks panic among organisations and caregivers in Delhi-NCR

NEW DELHI/NOIDA: Harsha, a street dog left to die on a road in Shalimar Bagh with her stomach slashed, was rushed to an NGO-run care home for stray animals in Noida two weeks ago. Harsha is on her way to recovery in the ICU there. However, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s order on […]

India’s top court orders stray dogs to be removed from New Delhi streets

NEW DELHI (AP) — No stray dogs roaming the streets of New Delhi? That could be possible in the future after India’s top court ordered authorities in New Delhi to start removing all stray dogs from the streets, and to sterilize and relocate them to shelters permanently. In its order Monday, the Supreme Court directed […]