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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

10,000 Birds

India, February 2013. We are observing a Dhole , also called Asiatic or Indian Wild Dog. A hundred metres down the track, several more Dholes await us, totalling eleven dogs. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. It is February and evenings are cold.

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Siberian Husky Voted Top Dog in Pets-idential Election

4 The Love Of Animals

Canine Cabinet Posts Filled by a Melting Pot of Breeds from across the U.S. November 1, 2012, Norwalk CT – National pet services company Best Friends Pet Care has announced the winners of its 2013 Pets-idential Election for Canine in Chief and Canine Cabinet. Nubby Day, a Boston terrier from Matthews, NC, as Director of Pet Pampering.

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

And, although these days I like to switch it around, sometimes using National Geographic or Stokes or a specialty guide or my Sibley phone app, that creased, dog-eared, red library tape bound book is still the field guide I keep in my car or slip into my suitcase for a trip to anywhere east of the Rockies.