Gianmarco Lombardi

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By GIANMARCO LOMBARDI – trad. Mariafelicia Maione Sometimes, people stopping to talk to us in the street, together with the usual questions – Does he mind the heat? Does he run away? Why doesn’t he have blue eyes? – want to learn where we live, or, to say it plain, where Tomislav, Siberian Husky, lives. And – often – the are horrified to know that we live in a 47 square yards flat in the heart of the city; so horrified that they feel the impulse to discuss deeply and profusely the subject.

Prima o poi ci passerete tutti. Per una esposizione canina, intendo. Quelle che gli iniziati chiamano amichevolmente expo. Ci passerete perché, nel bene e nel male, la cinofilia ufficiale è organizzata in modo tale da attribuire a queste manifestazioni una centralità pressoché assoluta. In expo ci si conosce, si prendono accordi per le monte, si valuta il lavoro degli altri allevamenti.