COSETTE AND
PARA-DOGS
I have loved animals as long as I can remember. Whether this passion is inborn or was nurtured by my childhood in Africa I cannot say. I used to live close to the forest, and I have memories of snakes, guenons and chameleons paying repeated, unauthorized visits to my home, eliciting my mother’s dismay and my curious surprise.
As a little girl I dreamed that, one day, I would own a mansion where I could host not only dogs, but couples of all wild and farm animals in a kind of earthly Noah’s Ark: from tigers to cats, from gazelles to horses –
all of whom I would equally, happily attend.
Life took its own turns and, rather than a veterinary, I became a specialist in 19th-century English and Italian literature which I researched and taught for years in the UK and Switzerland. The philosophical thinking of my favourite Italian poet, Giacomo Leopardi, directed me towards posthumanism and zooanthropology, a new philosophical discipline founded in Italy by the veterinary, ethologist and philosopher Roberto Marchesini. It took little to decide to embark on a new career as a dog educator and a dog instructor by enrolling at SIUA, the School for the Interaction between Humans and Animals, founded in Bologna by prof. Marchesini.
This is where the story of Para-dogs begins.

There are no irrecoverable dogs, there is only the human incapability
of understanding how to come to terms with a particular dog's condition.
The difficulty is not in the dog, but in us: we have difficulties
accepting, understanding, directing, compensating...
Even when a dog might at first seem irrecoverable, in fact,
s/he only is the carrier of life-experiences, which have moulded
his or her way of interpreting the world and of operating in the here and now. Before stating that a dog is 'irrecoverable' therefore
we should reflect upon our ignorance.
Roberto Marchesini, Pensieri sul cane e su altri animali (Thoughts on dogs and other animals)

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