Our Dogs, Our Streets
Book cover: a brown and white Indian street dog resting its head on the ground, under the title Our Dogs, Our Streets

A book about India’s street dogs

Our Dogs, Our Streets

Why India’s street dogs deserve our love, and how we can live together

Aman Kapur

For the people who love the dogs outside their gate, and just as much for the people who fear them. Honest numbers on bites and rabies, stories that stay with you, and a practical plan for neighbours, parents, feeders and RWAs.

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Also in Hindi: हमारे कुत्ते, हमारी गलियाँ

From the opening pages

Somewhere in India tonight, it is raining, and a thin brown mother is carrying her puppies one by one in her mouth from a flooded drain to the dry space under a parked truck. There are five of them. She makes the trip five times, through water up to her chest.

On the fifth trip, she stops and goes back to the drain once more, and stands there for a long time, sniffing the black water, because she is not sure she counted right.

They cannot tell you their stories. So this book will try to speak for them.

Inside the book

  • Who they areThe Indie’s ancient story, from Neolithic burials to the faithful dog at the end of the Mahabharata.
  • The fear, and the factsReal numbers on bites and rabies, ten common myths, and why removing dogs has never worked.
  • Stories from the streetA woman who hated dogs, a lane’s last night with its watchman, a runaway boy and the dog who found him.
  • Living togetherBite safety for children, riders and walkers, responsible feeding, sterilisation, and a 30-day plan for RWAs.
  • What the law saysThe ABC Rules 2023, BNS Section 325 and the Supreme Court’s 2025–26 directions, in plain language.
  • A kinder IndiaSimple things anyone can do, starting tomorrow morning.

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About the author

Aman Kapur is a pet parent of more than ten years, based in Dehradun. Aman has always felt deeply for India’s street dogs: the ones who sleep outside our gates, keep watch over our lanes, and too often meet anger instead of kindness. This book grew out of a belief that with facts, patience and a little compassion, people and street dogs can share our streets in peace.

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I’m afraid of dogs. Is this book for me?

Yes. You won’t be shamed in this book. It takes your fear seriously, and shows what actually keeps people safe.