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"Being with dogs keeps me active,” says 86-year-old Ratty Javeri, honorary secretary of The Indian National Kennel Club (INKC) founded by her father Jehangir Daruvala in 1957. She has been secretary since the Club’s inception. "The purpose of the INKC was to promote purebred dogs through championship shows and thus encourage the breeding of sound dogs. In the 1950s, very few people had any knowledge or access to quality, purebred dogs,” says daughter, veterinarian Dr Freya Javeri Kharawala, now based in Ahmedabad where she resides with her husband Lochen, a consultant for pet product distributors and an animal behaviorist. "Mummy......