Editorial

And here’s to new beginnings and a very Magical 2020— hope you’ll have a wonderful 2020, celebrating every day together with your precious paws and people. Mine was super magical… serendipity did sparkle with none other than a CZAR! Czar is royalty beyond and more. A gorgeous Golden Retriever who looks like a bear, trots like horse, and behaves like a dog. When you see his stature, demeanour,…

Kiko has completely captured and entrapped all of us. Kiko, a French Bulldog, and ‘three little momos’- as I love to call him, is a new entrant to our family. My sister is the pet parent for Kiko—and we all are spellbound to his magic. How is Kiko? His round face and eyes are simply delicious; he is turning six months shortly and truly the baby of the family. Kiko’s pet parents—Kish and Kshetij,…

Raise a toast to ‘Raise’ -Become a responsible Pet Parent’! It’s truly one of the most wonderful feelings to have a four-legged by your side, which means millions of moments and memories to cherish forever! ‘PETS ARE FAMILY’. For so many of us our day revolves around our little heartbeat…in fact, they are not heartbeat at our feet, they are ‘Heartbeat of Our Heart’. So lucky to meet so many pet…

KIKO@HOME – A house only becomes a home with PAWS. They come with their PAWSITIVITY… and sparkle it with love, always. They are family. Our laughter continues as KIKO has come home in my sister’s family. KIKO is a little French Bulldog pup who has just turned two months. He is hopping around the house like a rabbit and scurrying like a rat. The centre of focus and soul is KIKO—‘What is KIKO…

Attention and Affection is most important, what love you give your pet as a Dog Mom, you get it back a million times more in return. Best investment ever I would say—which always comes with so much responsibility, to take care of LIFE in the Right manner. It’s very heartening to see the bond people share with their pets in our magazine and on social media pages we have noticed pictures and videos…

Our Canine Sleuths are always by our side, meet Babu & Babe–the star brother- sister duo. Babu a five-year-old Labrador Retriever won a ‘gold medal’ for being the best tracking canine at the All India Police Duty Meet 2018 while Babe bagged ‘bronze medal’ in explosives detection. Born on 27th April 2014, the brother and sister Labrador Retrievers joined Delhi police at the age of two. They…

When life & magic meet, it’s a Miracle. Our four-legged friends are pure magic and Sparkle our lives with joy each and every second. Whenever you want to feel happy, go meet a fur friend, look into their eyes and you know the meaning of true happiness. Touch, Tenderness, Tone, Talk all are very important to them— one thing they most want is to be TWOgether. It is super awesome that there are…

Dogs are naturally gifted with the power of scent as they have about 200 million scent receptors while we human have only 5 million. Their brain is dominated by the sense of smell that enables them to be trained into a lot of activities. A recent study shows that our canines can detect malaria, particularly among children, by just sniffing their socks. They can also sniff out certain cancers,…

Do you love talking to pets or dogs? Do people around you find this habit strange? It’s official and proven via research at Harvard University that people who talk to their pets have high intelligence. I am grinning, have always spoken to all my dogs, the stray buddies, birds and the squirrels on my balcony and often get hilarious sceptical looks from people around me. So time to celebrate and let…

Fourteen Years in promoting responsible pet patenting, a heartfelt ‘miss you forever’ to Sparkle because of whom Dogs & Pups came into being and also to all our canine buddies who truly are our family and heartthrobs. Our wonderful team believed in it and is continuously striving passionately in only bringing out the best. All our partners—as we all together strive with knowledge to improve…

Frustrated, Furious and Ferocious—it is a sad truth that we as a magazine have always believed in. Just unfortunate to have experienced it in real life! So, on first of March this year I was sitting at my home and sipping some tea at 7 pm, my son Suhaan, who is ten years old, had gone down with an elder to fetch something he forgot in the car. Unfortunately, and to all our dismay, Suhaan saw an…

Two-gether you and me, being two-gether is always beautiful! Life and love... me and my canine member... beautiful when two-gether. It is official, 2018 is the Year of the Dog. In Chinese astrology, each year is related to a zodiac sign—dog is one of them, occupying the eleventh position. So, the Year of the Dog comes after a cycle of 12 years. It occurred last time in 2006 and next will be in…

What a lovely word – FUR-MILY, came across it on facebook – our four-legged furry friends are not only a part of our family but complete it too. The FUN-TASTIC fact is that they know us like no other. Every little move we make is monitored, and in their little minds they have completely mapped each and every action made. Whether it is siesta cuddle, happy running or food indulgence, we have…

So the story goes on and I really thought my next editorial would not have Sparkle, but I guess we miss him most in the little things – every moment, daily joys we had with him. And actually those memories are most memorable, a magic potion for us to remember him and smile. Suhaan (my son who is 10) and I still jump with joy when we remember Sparkle’s antics. The best moment of our day was every…

Life is more beautiful when you give. As pet parents we feel blessed with the gift of love which we get in abundance. How special are the moments when your furry heartthrob chooses you, when he or she simply wants to come, sit and snuggle close to you. They give love & adoration like no other – it sure does make you feel complete. The melting eyes and the warmth–“smuggle” your heart in a…

So, I miss black and white—the fur, the warm nose, the mesmerising eyes, the six dots on the nose, the way he jumped and wanted to be with only us in the morning. I miss him in all the big things and all the little things—his stubbornness, his playfulness, his anger, his highness being grumpy and demanding his meal, and not to forget, the right over each snack which was served. I knew I was in…

What’s good in a goodbye I wonder? How do you say goodbye to someone so dear? Sparkle came into our lives when he was just 1.5 months old, the little heartbeat became our heartthrob from the very first moment. With Sparkle we came to know love in its most true form. With his antics and affection, he filled our hearts with a million joys. From the shoes he snuggled his nose into, to the furniture…

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ”—Roger A Caras. Still, we hear cases of people abandoning their dogs because it is too much of commitment, expense or care for them. Cases of pedigree and senior dogs being…

Truely our best friends, our 'Dog Beings' give us unconditional love. They also go through varied emotional moments and it's our responsibility to understand and respect them. To help us co-exist and understand our little furry friends, we at Dogs & Pups have introduced Friends 4Ever campaign in schools across Delhi. Interactive workshops are conducted with school children, helping them…

“When the Man woke up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'”— Rudyard Kipling (author of The Jungle Book). Pooches are a part of our family and pet parents are always ready to go an extra mile for their health and happiness.start button not working…