One week before my son was moving to the US for college, he tripped over a stray dog snoozing peacefully in a Gurgaon market. My son is an accident-prone klutz and it was entirely his fault for disregarding the old adage about letting sleeping dogs lie, thereby incurring a nasty bite. There wasn’t enough time to finish the anti-rabies injection course. Dog rabies has been eradicated in the US and I couldn’t figure out a way for him to get the final shot there. Desperate, I sought the advice of my dog’s vet, who, over a 30-year-practice, knows a thing or two. All strays aren’t rabid, he assured me, suggesting we go back to check on the dog. If the animal was hale and hearty, we had nothing to fear. Sure enough, the dog was chilling in exactly the same place. Relieved, we abandoned the medication and my son left as planned. It’s an unfortunate reality in Delhi-NCR that every family has a stray dog story; but all the strays........

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