Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Dogs At Neeti Bagh
We have 3 dogs at Neeti Bagh - Lady, Lucy and Lucky. They live on the street outside our house and are always there to greet us when we leave. They are the most affectionate dogs we've ever known. We noticed them all when we first arrived, sleeping under the parked cars around the neighborhood. We bought some dog biscuits thinking that they'd like them - they do sort of but really just take them from us to be polite.
Lady is the white one and does not like the biscuits but craves affection - she will let you rub her neck as long as you care to do it. It appears that Lady is the mother of the other two. Lucky is the brown one with white paws and a white blaze. He is rambunctious and very jealous - if we pet either of the other ones he growls and shoves our hand away and insists that he gets the attention. Lucy is very shy but dances with her paws in the air when she sees us coming -even when the Innova pulls up she knows I'm in the car and prances around with her front paws up. She will eat a dog biscuit but only because it appears to make me happy. She basically just wants to be petted. She spends most of the day curled up beside the tree right at the front of our drive way. The owner of the little shop by the gate seems to feed them every day - with day old milk and cold chappatis.
There are many dogs in the Neeti Bagh neighborhood - many pedigreed ones. The students reported a glossy poster being circulated this week with a glamor shot of a pug that has been lost. Several of the outside dogs began sporting fancy winter coats once it got cold in Novemeber. This shot is taken right at the top of the street where my office is in Nizamuddin East. This man has set up a duchan (small shop) selling candy and tobacco. His dog is always there with him in her handsome red winter coat.
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