I love dogs and so this story about India’s favorite kutta(Hindi for dog) makes the cut. [The Age]

Dog days are here for India’s favorite pooch
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Those who live in India or have been there in the last couple of years must be familiar with the Vodafone pug.

A TV advertisement promoting the mobile phone company featuring the dog has captivated millions of Indians.

Sales of pug puppies have soared as children, smitten by scenes showing a lovable pug playing affectionately with a pretty little girl, have forced their parents to buy one for them too.

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Remember the The Fast and the Furious: Chennai Drift post from a year back? This post talked about Jallikattu, a celebration involving bull taming, held in Tamil Nadu for the Pongal festival. We also joked about how this bull festival server as a matchmaking service in days of yore. This festival seems to be headed the way of the dodo as the Supreme Court of India has decided to ban this festival citing “cruelty to animals”. [link]

So what do our readers think? Is this decision ok considering how the bulls are treated, including getting them drunk and having them chased down by a bunch of drunk men? Or is the secular Supreme Court being too politically correct and destroying “Indian culture”?

A unique Christmas gift, Indian rhino poop, is available on ebay.com, worth $600 at time of posting. [link]

This shit is serious business
img: via eBay.com

Each specimen of rhino dung has been properly dried and sealed in an attractive container featuring the name of the rhino species that produced it.

You can bid on Greater One-Horned (Indian) Rhino dung at this listing, or visit one of our other three listings to bid on poop from Black Rhinos, White Rhinos, or the incredibly rare Sumatran Rhinos.

The population of Greater One-Horned, or Indian, Rhinos decreased to about 200 individuals at the turn of the 20th century, but with strict protection by Indian and Nepalese wildlife authorities, there are now more than 2,600 rhinos. Unfortunately, however, more than 85% of these rhinos inhabit one national park in India, exposing the animals to the risk that a single catastrophe could lead to serious population decline.

The rhino dung auction will begin on Thursday night, November 29, 2007 and end December 9, 2007, so that the dung can be shipped in time for the holidays.

Winning bidders can choose to have their purchase shipped directly to themselves or to a chosen gift recipient. (We can only ship within the U.S.)

This is not a load of crap!

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A zoo in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, is giving tax rebates to people who adopt animals. It costs Rs. 100 to adopt a bird and Rs. 80,000 to adopt a tiger. Novel idea. But I’m skeptic because we all know this will be misused by our break-all-rules society. [link]
Note: BBC needs better fact checking/editing with their articles: “Taxpayers who ‘adopt’ animals in a zoo in the eastern Indian state of Bhubaneshwar are to be given rebates“. Say what? When did Bhubaneshwar become a state. I missed that memo.

Animal sacrifice, which has long been a blemish on the Hindu religion and the image of India in general still exists. In a Temple-of-Doom‘ish gesture, devotees of the Hindu goddess Kali, captured and sacrificed goats and lambs to “appease Kali”.

From IndiaeNews.com:

Devotees in Orissa’s Jajpur and Puri districts sacrificed hundreds of goats and lambs to invoke goddess Kali’s blessings, eyewitnesses said Saturday.
The culling, which started Friday night continued till Saturday.
About 120 goats and lambs were sacrificed Saturday morning at the Maa Kali temple in Katarapur village of Jajpur district, some 100 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar, a villager told IANS

Mola Ram approves.

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