Meet Bambi, 'the cutest Indian dog of the year'

Bengaluru: Once a stray puppy roaming the streets of Basavanagudi in Bengaluru, a brown mongrel with deep, dark eyes, called Bambi was picked winner in an annual contest organised by PETA and is now officially the cutest Indian dog of the year. Her owner Aishwarya Radhakrishna said, “Bambi found me on the street. She was extremely cute and had Bambi-like eyes - huge, very beautiful. She was very small, just a fistful and barely 10 days old. All you could see was her eyes. And the rest of her was just skeleton, skin and bone. We put her up for adoption, but her eyes were too affectionate and we couldn't let her go. We wanted to keep her with us as a part of the family. Now, I can't imagine a single day without her,” she said. The aim of the contest is to encourage people to give a home to the stray dogs who need one, rather than only opt for pedigree dogs who are often the product of an inhumane breeding industry, PETA says.