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This week on Heavy Petting - It's A Dog's Life, Paras meets not 1, not 2, but 30 dogs in Guwahati. Murchana, an ardent animal lover, has beautiful family full of Golden Retrievers, Labradors and a cuddly St. Bernard. She shares her pets’ secret hang out spot with Heavy Petting, at the Brahmaputra River. Also on the show find out the similarity between humans and giraffes! On Ask The Doc this week, learn about a chronic disease in dogs. For all this and more watch Heavy Petting – It’s A Dog’s Life every Sunday at 11 am, and repeats on Saturday at 6.30 pm. | |
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We've made you meet pets at home, taken you into the wild, travelled all across India, gone international, featured some rare breeds - all this and more has happened on Heavy Petting with every new season. So this season too we get out our best act, with not one but two surprises on the show. Not only do we bring you a new season but we have for you a new pet keeper! An anchor whose heart is firmly in the right place – the dog house! We kick start a fresh series ‘HEAVY PETTING – IT'S A DOG'S LIFE’ with our new Anchor, Paras Tomar, who gets up close and personal with pooches and their families.
Lazing in the sun, eating healthy, being pampered every day, and days full of fun and games...a dog's life can be enviable. This is exactly the life Paras explores through the new season where he visits homes that have dogs as pets, spends some one on one time with them to know them better, hear their stories, catch their quirks and also chat up their parents. Paras himself is a proud pet parent and so this season he also gives us some data on doggies!
Gear up for what promises to be a season full of fun and frolic, laughter and warmth. With Paras Tomar on Heavy Petting, only on NDTV Good Times. |  | |
We've made you meet pets at home, taken you into the wild, travelled all across India, gone international, featured some rare breeds - all this and more has happened on Heavy Petting with every new season. So this season too we get out our best act, with not one but two surprises on the show. Not only do we bring you a new season but we have for you a new pet keeper! An anchor whose heart is firmly in the right place – the dog house! We kick start a fresh series ‘HEAVY PETTING – IT'S A DOG'S LIFE’ with our new Anchor, Paras Tomar, who gets up close and personal with pooches and their families.
Lazing in the sun, eating healthy, being pampered every day, and days full of fun and games...a dog's life can be enviable. This is exactly the life Paras explores through the new season where he visits homes that have dogs as pets, spends some one on one time with them to know them better, hear their stories, catch their quirks and also chat up their parents. Paras himself is a proud pet parent and so this season he also gives us some data on doggies!
Gear up for what promises to be a season full of fun and frolic, laughter and warmth. With Paras Tomar on Heavy Petting, only on NDTV Good Times. |  | |
We've made you meet pets at home, taken you into the wild, travelled all across India, gone international, featured some rare breeds - all this and more has happened on Heavy Petting with every new season. So this season too we get out our best act, with not one but two surprises on the show. Not only do we bring you a new season but we have for you a new pet keeper! An anchor whose heart is firmly in the right place – the dog house! We kick start a fresh series ‘HEAVY PETTING – IT'S A DOG'S LIFE’ with our new Anchor, Paras Tomar, who gets up close and personal with pooches and their families.
Lazing in the sun, eating healthy, being pampered every day, and days full of fun and games...a dog's life can be enviable. This is exactly the life Paras explores through the new season where he visits homes that have dogs as pets, spends some one on one time with them to know them better, hear their stories, catch their quirks and also chat up their parents. Paras himself is a proud pet parent and so this season he also gives us some data on doggies!
Gear up for what promises to be a season full of fun and frolic, laughter and warmth. With Paras Tomar on Heavy Petting, only on NDTV Good Times. |  | |
We've made you meet pets at home, taken you into the wild, travelled all across India, gone international, featured some rare breeds - all this and more has happened on Heavy Petting with every new season. So this season too we get out our best act, with not one but two surprises on the show. Not only do we bring you a new season but we have for you a new pet keeper! An anchor whose heart is firmly in the right place – the dog house! We kick start a fresh series ‘HEAVY PETTING – IT'S A DOG'S LIFE’ with our new Anchor, Paras Tomar, who gets up close and personal with pooches and their families.
Lazing in the sun, eating healthy, being pampered every day, and days full of fun and games...a dog's life can be enviable. This is exactly the life Paras explores through the new season where he visits homes that have dogs as pets, spends some one on one time with them to know them better, hear their stories, catch their quirks and also chat up their parents. Paras himself is a proud pet parent and so this season he also gives us some data on doggies!
Gear up for what promises to be a season full of fun and frolic, laughter and warmth. With Paras Tomar on Heavy Petting, only on NDTV Good Times. |  | |
We've made you meet pets at home, taken you into the wild, travelled all across India, gone international, featured some rare breeds - all this and more has happened on Heavy Petting with every new season. So this season too we get out our best act, with not one but two surprises on the show. Not only do we bring you a new season but we have for you a new pet keeper! An anchor whose heart is firmly in the right place – the dog house! We kick start a fresh series ‘HEAVY PETTING – IT'S A DOG'S LIFE’ with our new Anchor, Paras Tomar, who gets up close and personal with pooches and their families.
Lazing in the sun, eating healthy, being pampered every day, and days full of fun and games...a dog's life can be enviable. This is exactly the life Paras explores through the new season where he visits homes that have dogs as pets, spends some one on one time with them to know them better, hear their stories, catch their quirks and also chat up their parents. Paras himself is a proud pet parent and so this season he also gives us some data on doggies!
Gear up for what promises to be a season full of fun and frolic, laughter and warmth. With Paras Tomar on Heavy Petting, only on NDTV Good Times. | | | |
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Anchor, actor, amateur guitar player, fitness enthusiast, karaoke expert, Nintendo Wii lover, chocolate addict, sous chef, travel junkie, video blogger, writer, narcissist, vain, smooth talker, animal lover, mildly shameless, superbly immodest.
Paras Tomar is a television anchor, radio jockey and a former journalist. While travel and youth shows have been his forte as an anchor, a large part of his work has been Bollywood driven. From putting celebrities in a spot, to partying with them he's anchored several shows on almost all of India’s top television channels. As a radio show host, he is the voice of the morning show for a Vancouver based radio station and is also part of the team that set up a unique South East Asian station in Bahrain. He has also hosted radio shows on FM in India. | |
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Pet Diaries: Meet an adorable little baby lizard
Join our host Paras Tomar as he plays around with a little baby lizard in Guwahati.
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Paras Tomar
"The Bramhaputra is the only male river in India"
I instantly start going over the names Ganga, Yamuna, Godavri, Saraswati...and realize that IS true! I'd never really thought about that but the fact that at least one river represents the male species in the largest democracy in the world, is good enough. Gender equality, does not apply when it comes to rivers! Evidently women rule. #sigh |
Heavy petting in Guwahati
Paras Tomar
"When Heavy Petting decided to conquer the north east, I made a few phone calls to a cousin who became our unofficial brand ambassador to the state of Assam. While most animal enthusiasts would imagine that Kaziranga would be the obvious choice to shoot animals (shoot as in with a camera, not bang bang!), we realized Guwahati had enough delights for some episodes of ‘It's a dog's life!” |
"Omg I found a snake skin!"
Paras Tomar
"Nashik might be known for its vineyards and its slightly-cleaner-than-Mumbai air but even while we were shooting for an episode of Heavy Petting, the pet parents and I were looking for shed snake skin during the show! Needless to say, this is one happy family!” |
Let’s shoot in Shimlaaaaaa..aaaaachoooo!
Paras Tomar
Let’s shoot in Shimlaaaaaa! aaaaachoooo! So it begins! I’m gravely unwell.
If you ask me, "Paras what did you see in Shimla" my response would be, "Uhh the inside of toilets in restaurants, hotels, houses...but yes, mostly toilets." Knowing fully well that my stomach is a whirlwind of surprises waiting to unleash, we leave out hotel early to drive nearly two hours to the Home of the Singhs in Baldeyan. |
Sultan and Daisy - Proud canines of the Chadda family
Paras Tomar
It's my first time shooting with the team of Heavy Petting in Shimla (Paras screams yay!). It's good to be back in my hometown, on familiar ground, away from the Mumbai heat in a season that’s been particularly hot! Oddly enough even for the local Himachalis this is oddly cold (I credit that demon called global warming). |
Animals can bring out the very best of human emotions
Paras Tomar
One would imagine that a Cuffe Parade house, with its sky rocketing real estate rates in Mumbai would be a highly improbable place for three dogs, but that hasn’t stopped Rushail and his family from extending their home to Michele, Bacardi and Diesel. |
Fun moment - Behind the scene
Paras Tomar
Now this is the part that you won't get to see on the episode, we try m keep it family viewing, but the funniest was when the team and I were shooting an anchor link and right under my nose the Alsatian decided to, let’s use say, mount rani. |
No smokey without fire
Paras Tomar
Almond oil, Green Tea, home made chocolates, cinnamon and oh yes Dogs! While traditionally Coonoor may have been famous for all these things, modern day Coonoor brochures need to put just one man's face on them. David. | | | |
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Abhay Deol with his adorable pet
Bollywood actor Abhay Deol loves his pets and Heavy Petting and here he is with not one, not two, but three pet dogs Pepper, Snowy and Browny. Pepper is the most active of the lot and even talks to Abhay. The young actor confesses that he has always fallen in love with girlfriends who have liked dogs. Find out more... |
Meet Suchitra, the dog-lover
Singer and actress Suchitra Krishnamoorthy introduces her daughter Kaveri and her two pet dogs Cupcake and Muffin. While Cupcake is the beauty queen and Muffin is a self-proclaimed 'man of the house'. Suchitra shares an interesting story with us on Heavy Petting... |
Meet Flash!
Dabboo Ratnani
The star and celebrity! I'm talking about Flash. He's as famous or maybe more famous than I am! Flash has had a photo-shoot with the biggest stars – from Mr Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan...you name it he has had a picture with them! |
Roofus - A man among dogs!
Cyrus Brocha
So you want to meet my dog, my family? The First Rule – My wife is not friendly! Don't worry about the dog, beware of the wife! Let me introduce you to Roofus, a man among dogs! It's the worst thing I could say about him. | | | |
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Question: Does a giraffe have more bones in the neck as compared to a human being.
Your options are -
A) Yes
B) No
C) Same as humans.
sms PETS (SPACE) A, B, OR C to 56388
Mrs Lata Nair from Pune | |
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In loving memory of Casper
From: Aditi Tandon
Casper passed away yesterday after a brief illness of 10 days at a young age of 7.5 years. We are beyond heartbroken specially my parents for whom he was a child when their own children had left home for further studies. In all our years of having pets, we never had a more gentle and beautiful soul. Even visitors admired his good nature and when we went for walks in the colony, people would stop and compliment on his good looks. Throughout his suffering not once did he whimper and till the end wagged his tail when he saw family.
This picture of his was taken on the top of the stairs near our entrance and this was one of Casper's favorite places-. Sitting right at the top he could see which of the family member was coming and run down at a gallop to greet them.
We were very lucky to have him. | |
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