In their recently published paper, entitled ‘A dog’s day with humans – time activity budget of free-ranging dogs in India’, Majumder et al.1 claim that free-ranging dogs in Indian cities are ‘generally lazy and friendly animals’, spending most of their time ‘either sleeping, lazing or sitting’. Using results from behavioural observations of free-ranging dogs, the authors claim that perceptions of freeranging dogs in India as ‘noisy and aggressive creatures’ are biased, and that in fact dogs do not pose significant threats to human well-being.