Winter pups in Goa

These lovely pictures were taken by Lindsay McFarlane and Su on their trip to Goa in December. I met Lindsay and Su because they had made an absolutely beautiful and award-winning short film on tiger conservation for us at Satpuda Foundation. Of course I was delighted to find they are dog lovers as well!

"Su and I fell in love with some puppies on the beach where we were staying," Lindsay writes. These were in Palolem. They were due to be taken to an animal rescue shelter after being weaned, so let's hope they have good homes by now. As Lindsay said, Indian dogs are beautiful animals and in the UK would seem quite exotic as they are different to most of the breeds there.













I mentioned in the last post that most INDog pups are born in winter because of the synchronized seasonal mating in the late monsoon. Here's another example. I believe that free-ranging females observed to be in oestrus at any other season would probably be mix-breeds.

Photos: Lindsay McFarlane
Palolem, Goa