Kukur Tihar is being celebrated

Today is the second day of Yamapanchak ‘Tihar’. It is known as Kukur Tihar. It is known as ‘Khicha Puja’ by NEWARS community. ‘Kukur Tihar’ is  for worship of Dogs. People feed special delicious foods, garland it with flowers ‘Maalaa’, ‘Tika’ to Dog and admit the valued relationship  between humans and domestic animal dogs. Dogs are belived as the messenger of God of Death ‘Yamaraj’.
This day is also known as ‘Narak Chaturdashi’.On ‘Mahabharat’, the hindu epic talks about the close relationship between animals like Dogs, cow and mankind.  ‘Narak Chaturdashi’ is celebrated as a part of Nepali culture . It is a symbol of philosophy of  being humans with other existing in nature by worshiping the crow, dog, cow and oxen since ancient times.  
Dogs are sincere to humans, intelligent and funny also. 
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