Ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India.
1They had already changed themselves into dogs: village dogs, pye-dogs, perhaps dingos.
2Bébé learned to love even the pye-dogs which congregated under the huts, and would let him touch them.
3Uncle Ferrers' Sikhs and Pathan soldiers called him that, because whenever he fought with the pye-dogs or other dogs, Boh always won.