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February 24, 2006

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Calvin, the Dog of the Day
Name: Calvin
Age: Eleven weeks old
Gender: Male Breed: Standard Dachshund
Home: New Delhi, India
 
   Well everyone's pet is special to them, and so is Calvin to us. He came to us when he was seven weeks old - so it's been just about a month since he's been with us. He is intelligent and a quick learner. He has already mastered the basic commands and is more or less trained on all hygiene issues. Calvin is not fussy over food, neither is he greedy. He will not touch a morsel from his food till he is instructed to do so. He sleeps like a human (on his back) and is a great companion. We have slowly tried to understand his form of communication rather than make him understand us always: we can now sense when he wants to play, when he wants to be taken out, when he is hungry, when he wants us to wake up in the morning to be with him, when he wants to just laze and be with himself... and so on. He is pretty gutsy and not afraid of bigger dogs or for that matter anything in the neighborhood. In fact he senses a problem, he's willing to take it head-on!

    Calvin has brought a lot of good cheer to our family and now it's already difficult to imagine how life was without him.

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