About The Contributors

Rajashree Khalap Rajashree is a landrace dog enthusiast and naturalist with a special interest in spiders. In the past she worked with a  street dog welfare non-profit (1993 to 2007).  In 2002 she started an informal group called the Indian Pariah Dog Club, later renamed to INDog Club, to create awareness about India’s village dogs […]

Breed Standard of the Indian Native Dog

By Aditya Panda History & Description: The Indian Native Dog, commonly referred to as the “pariah” dog, and erroneously referred to as “mongrel”, “mutt” or “stray”, in fact, represents one of the oldest breeds of domestic dog and belongs to the “primitive”/”aboriginal”/“Pariah” group of Canis familiaris. It is the naturally evolved and perfected prototype of […]

INDog – The Indian Pariah Dog

A long long time ago, and thousands of years before the arrival of modern purebreeds, a race of dogs much like this one inhabited our subcontinent. These were the very first domestic dogs, and Man’s earliest animal companions. Our site is dedicated to this pan-Indian aboriginal dog: the Indian Pariah Dog or INDog as we […]