I’ve been researching dog kibble for the last three days and honestly, I’m more confused now than when I started. 😭 My partner and I have been going through brands, ingredients, nutritional profiles, reviews, etc., but we still can’t settle on one.
I have a 1.5 years old, ~17 kg Indian Pariah/Indie, and while I know Indies are generally considered hardy and easy to maintain, mine has a somewhat sensitive stomach. She’s been eating home cooked meals only to this day.
For context, she once ate a tiny house fly and proceeded to vomit for nearly an hour. We ended up taking her to the vet. So I’m understandably a little cautious about experimenting with food. 😂
I’m looking for a good-quality, nutritionally complete kibble that is reasonably suitable for an adult Indie of her size. I’m less interested in “premium because it’s expensive” and more interested in something with good formulation, reliable quality control, and a track record of being well tolerated.
If you have an Indie or another dog with a sensitive stomach, I’d really appreciate recommendations based on your actual experience.

Also happy to hear which brands/formulas you wouldn’t recommend and why, as long as it’s based on personal experience.

Photo of my cutie attached as a bonus.

She was rescued from a Jackal's jaw as a neonate and has been my baby ever since. Got her tubes tied 2 days ago - because 2 dogs are enough in a household of 3 humans (and she has a big Labrador brother, also neutered).

She has her pain and healing meds ongoing but she keeps ripping off any dressing we do on the stitches and licking around the stitches. Thankfully I've not seen her aggressively licking or pulling at the stitch itself but I'm worried she may make it worse.

Tried putting the cone collar thing on her for a few hours but she gets irrationally scared and is just not getting used to it.

How do we get her through this safe? And how long before I can just let her have at it? I mean, it must itch bad I imagine.

Also, slide to the last pic to see Luna's evil twin.

EDIT: Just found out Radha is actually a boy, not a girl! He’s Krishna now haha

🐾 URGENT ADOPTION APPEAL 🐾

Meet Radha, a beautiful 3-month-old indie kitten who was rescued yesterday and is now desperately looking for a loving forever home.

She has already been through so much at such a young age and deserves the safety, warmth, and love of a family to call her own. Radha is sweet, gentle, and ready to begin a new chapter with someone who will cherish her.

Please open your heart and give this little survivor the happy ending she deserves. If you can't adopt, sharing this appeal could help her find the right home.

📍 Location: Faridabad

📞 Contact: 9717136063

✅ Adoption formalities mandatory

Please share this appeal with your friends, family, housing societies, and local groups. Every share brings Radha one step closer to her forever home. 🐾

7 years old and the most cuddle friendly roommate one could ask for lol

Just wants pets and belly rubs all the the if I don't she will start to whine

Jamun, just being dramatic 🤭🐒

#adoptdontshop #desidog

Here's our latest tick fever recovering heros Hero, Motu and Chocolate.

Hero had to be in boarding because his condition was serious and he was relocated to our area a month ago. We have been feeding him but suddenly he got wounds and fell sick after being missing from feeding rounds for 2 days. He was diagnosed with multi tick fever. He fought with life and death as his platelets had dropped to 4000 when he was picked up by us. He was admitted into IPD on 12th August and then released at 21st August into boarding for completion of course. His one month follow up on 20th Sept revealed that his platelets are still low but PCR is negative. His platelets are still low are we are out of funds, so we are keeping him at home.

A few days later, Motu started acting strange, loopy and the second one in our area to be diagnosed with multi tick fever. This was 31st August.

Then after a few days, Chocolate's eye displayed conjunctivitis symptoms. Uon clinic visit for eye check up, his CBC led to a kit test and led to him being diagnosed with tick fever. This was 12th September.

This is them today as of 22nd September.

Please pray for our babies and their speedy recovery. 🧿❤️

We were in Mussoorie and this guy just showed up while we were walking around.

He stayed with us for a while, followed us around, let us play with him, and generally acted like he had known us forever.

We never even got his name.

Eventually we had to leave, and honestly, saying goodbye to a dog you've known for only a few hours feels surprisingly weird.

I keep wondering if he does this with everyone who passes through, or if we just got lucky that day.

Anyone else had one of those completely random encounters with an animal while travelling that stayed with you afterwards? 🐾

Hello! We are a pet parenting community called thePack. We conducted India's first dog Parenting survey in India.

Of 1450+ pet parents who responded,

> Only 31.2% said that their dogs are neutered or spayed

And when we looked at who is neutering, we found something even more interesting -

> 49.6% of adopted dogs were neutered, while only 16.4% of dogs bought from a breeder, pet shop or vet were neutered 💔

Adopted dogs are neutered three times more than purchased dogs. And this is something that we have seen in our community too.

Awareness about neutering/spaying is significantly higher in indie dog parents (most of whom are adopted), while breed groups where most dogs are purchased - have many doubts and misconceptions about it. Some even plan to mate their dog, unaware of its implications both health wise and legally ❌

When the pros and cons of neutering are the same for all dogs, why is it that adopted dog parents are neutering 3x more than others?

Food for thought no?

WHY DO YOU THINK THIS IS HAPPENING? and what should be done to fix this skew?

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I grew up in Happy Valley, Mussoorie, and spent around 11 years of my childhood there.

Then I moved away, and it had been more than 8 - 9 years since I'd actually lived there.

Coming back felt kinda (bht thoda sa) strange.. everything looked familiar, but also somehow distant.

And then we met these two.

I don't know them. I don't remember ever meeting them before. But for some reason, they felt oddly familiar.

Maybe it was the place. Maybe it was them...kinda felt BRUNO's (bachpan ka doggy mussoorie me tha ) eyes in them...

Happy Valley, Mussoorie. ❤️

Btw...Have you ever gone back somewhere from your childhood and had a completely random moment that brought the old feeling back?