Survival skills

This desi dog is getting a bit soft after a few years of New England life.

Mowgli was working on his camouflage skills this afternoon. He didn’t take it too well when I told him he’s got a ways to go, nor did he  like it that I plastered his very unsubtle pose all over the internet.

On our trip through the Southwest this summer, on a day that probably rivaled his hometown Delhi for temperature if not humidity, he did choose to recover from the heat here, in the middle of the sun red dirt. He blends in a little more, but he just doesn’t become part of his surroundings anymore, the way that all street dogs must. And clearly, here he is very pleased indeed to add to the online assortment of desi dogs lying in the dirt.