All your life you may have seen street dogs(in India) and loved them, probably feed them and all. How many of you knew their origins or their ethnicity? No one, I am sure. Not surprising though. See most of the dogs are actually Mohammedans, the rest being mostly Hindus.
The Muslim dogs are invariably named Ner-i Kuth Shah for the male ones and Begum Kuk-a-noor for the female ones.For the Hindus they are named Kukur Kumar and Kukur Kumari respectively. Ner-i Kuth Shah has since been colloquialized as 'Neri Kuttah' or simply as 'Kutta' and also the word Kukoor aslso comes directly from the Hindu names as well as the female name of Kuk-a-noor.
So now that you know a little bit of the history of the sweet dogs on the streets you can feel much better and closer to them and understand their feelings and sentiments.
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