Lives of Streeties

National Geographic released a bookazine in April 2020, titled "Genius of Dogs". We are so proud to see our Lives of Streeties project...

Pet Dog Trainers of Europe (PDTE), recently organized their annual summit and give the covid situation, it was done online. Sindhoor was...

When free ranging dogs are spoken about, people often use phrases like feral dogs, wild dogs, wary of humans, aggressive etc... Such...

The behaviour of streeties is changing during this lockdown. Streeties rely very heavily on humans for food, both coming from feeders, as...

During our classes, I explain to students that they need to take time before touching a dog and first check if the dog is okay with...

Dogs are sometimes called den animals, though there is no evidence to support that. If we are to go simply by ethological observations of...

The "ethogram" of a dog is a catalogue of all behaviours that are natural to the dog and canine ethology is the study of this.

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While lab tests are revealing so much about animals, observation of street dogs give us a whole new perspective on their cognitive abilities

The BHARCS advances students are busy gathering data on the behaviour of streeties. And of course, the streeties are curious as ever what...

Over the course of the last few months, we have gradually come to realise that we have been staring at something fascinating - Streeties...

Behaviourism is a term that describes the study of animal behaviour, usually referring to measured responses to stimuli or trained...

Lives of Streeties is an ongoing study that I am conducting on the street dogs of Bangalore, India. Streeties is a term of endearment...

A mum and her puppies have turned up at our exploring site. Every morning when we go there, the mum shows that she does not like us being...

The intent of #livesofstreeties is to bust myths about streeties. Today the myth we want to bust is that streeties are somehow different...

Media only seems to talk about street dogs when they gravely hurt humans and then the media paints an elaborately sensational narrative...

When people walk their dogs in Bangalore, some people struggle dealing with streeties and see streeties as a nuisance. But they don't...

Our street dogs are not just adorable bundles of love and joy, but also a source of information that fascinates the world. After all,...

In the 1960s, Blue cross of India discovered that the Madras High Commision had been trying to control dog population through culling for...

Streeties lead the most unconventional of lives. Dogs are and have always been extreme survivors and can be highly creative when it comes...

This is the 5AM video of our "Hotel Canine". This is the last video of this year's street dog study. It is also the first video of this...

I saw another love story today. These dogs are not regulars here. They must be a. group passing through this area. I wonder where they...

Kajal's story is getting more and more interesting. The last we spoke of her, we knew that she is now part of a love triangle between...

This morning I was lucky enough to witness a border dispute. It was 6 against 2. Caesar and PV are regulars on my study route. They stay...

I did not see Kajal last night. I was a bit apprehensive. This is the trouble with bonding with streeties. You do not want to think about...

I am slowly discovering where these dogs are hiding. Remember my favourite doggie - Kajal. Everytime I turn up near this house, she...

I had a great run at 5 PM today. I actually say 21 dogs in all!!! I am getting quite a hang of it where these dogs are hanging out. There...

This post is a bit overdue. The rain is cooperating a little bit. So I am getting a few studies done. Last time I was complaining about...

So, I tried desperately not to get to know the doggies on the route. That's not happening. They are starting to come up to me and...

Today, I put my flir to use better than the previous night study. I think I am getting the hang of it, though I must admit that the...

The study today was fairly uneventful. It was a hot afternoon. The dogs were mainly lazing. These studies actually remain uneventful on...

Today was the first of the night street dog studies of this year. Night studies are very interesting. Firstly, it poses some challenges....

It was HOT today. The weather report says it's only 28C. But it felt a lot hotter and according to the weather app, it felt like 31C. A...