Category: PODCAST

What is The Indie Dog? The indigenous dog? The Indian Dog? The Independent Dog? All of the above?

The stories about the Indie dog are plenty. Everyone I speak to has a different story and yet there’s one common goal. To love, nurture and stop the rapid multiplying of hapless and helpless animals.

They are smart and have figured out how to survive amidst aggressive humans and vehicles each day, whilst looking for food. Humans are the only hope for this group of four-legged mutts.

Humans. Me for sure, but you? Yes?

In each episode I will speak to all sorts of people who have come into the world of animal rescue and rehab, mostly by chance, to discover a calling that they never dreamt they had.

Dogs are funny like that, especially streeties. They know how to yank at your heartstrings. I have cried and laughed through my interviews but come out on the other side with a sense of purpose: that I can make a difference.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EwWJlhAZGky3uSbIFgxss?si=P1pPO-P-TDekSh6BOjekcA Warning: this is a very graphic and heartbreaking story. You may not be able to stomach the details. Just saying. It’s a story about medical and surgical heroism combined with human beings who refused, point blank, to let a streetie go. I’m talking to Archana Sreenivasan today. She’s an artist, illustrator and animal rescuer. […]

https://open.spotify.com/episode/61UkhCw7WKvuloKXjfIGbF?si=kDph8-_nTpSEVG2aBhyk9Q Now this is a podcast about The Indie Dog and one might think that it has only to do with native Indian dogs. But actually, it’s about dogs in India that fend for themselves on the streets for many reasons.  Some are born on the streets and these dogs have a slightly better chance […]