We Indians co-exist with our animal counterparts, at home and on the streets. Like most (urban) humans, the (urban) animals are thriving on leftovers.
Except the pigeons. The city's pigeons are proliferating uncontrollably due a lack of human consciousness (to feed them apparently blesses one with prosperity), the crows are natural survivors, and the sparrows are dwindling.
Mumbai has the highest ratio of rats to humans than any other city in the world, the cats and dogs share an amicable relationship, and the cows are used as bait to lure sinful humans (similar to pigeons).
So when you walk the streets of a city, especially in India, over-and-above Bombay/Mumbai, you're going to dodging the dwellers of the human orientation, and others.
