2023-04-25 09:50:48
Margherita, real name, is ten years old. She was born on the slopes of Etna, and was born big. She has always been a thoughtful, deep, introspective child. She had a big heart and like all big hearts to make him feel good she filled it with small and simple but deeply imprinted things, like care.
A big dream
Margherita, since she was a child, had a dream: to save all the dogs in the world.
Her little mangy poodle named Dado was not enough for her, which she had found in a manhole during a holiday in Marzamemi, a beautiful place embraced by the Sicilian sea, she wanted to save all the dogs in the world. Everyone, really everyone.
He couldn’t bear the idea that dogs could be abandoned, that they lived on the street, in the cold and without a family. Margherita always told her grandparents that saving dogs would be her mission in her life.
The parents, my patients, were a little worried and a little pleased by this visionary fantasy of their little girl. They didn’t want to clip the wings of a dream, but they knew the reality of the area well and would never have wanted to expose their little girl to such conscious disappointments. And much less would they have wanted and could have filled their house with stray dogs. Margherita, every evening, before going to bed, passed over her dogs, which were not hers, the neighborhood dogs. She knew them all, she had given them a name and a blanket. For her they weren’t strays, they were four-legged friends.
The dog Matilda and the rabbit Orange, best friends
by Valeria Randone
The dogs Prezzemolo and Basilico, inseparable friends adopted together thanks to two twin children
by Valeria Randone
The stall by the sea
Margherita, during the summer, together with her playmates and classmates, used to make bracelets with beads, leather necklaces, decorate raffia hats and sell their wares on the beach. The girls had transformed some household objects into a sort of amateur stall: they had taken two crates of fruit, they had glued them together to make a banquet, which they had embellished with their most precious things, they had written a wonderfully eloquent and planted it in the sand.
The sign read: “if you buy our bracelets, we feed the stray dogs we love so much”.
Margherita had an activist soul, she didn’t stop at anything or anyone and, despite being very small, she had very clear ideas.
During the Christmas and Easter holidays, she collected the money given to her by her grandparents and uncles and put it aside in a piggy bank in the shape of a house which she called a doghouse. This year, during Easter just passed, she had told her relatives and parents that she did not want to receive any Easter eggs but only donations for the kennels she took care of on a permanent basis.
New entry in the Morandi house. “Here is the cat Lucio, in honor of Dalla”
by George Bracco
The Sunday morning ritual
Margherita had decided, waiting to grow up and be able to have a shelter of her own, to go to the kennels and bring a smile, caresses and blankets, and kibbles.
Every Sunday morning, after homework, he forced his mother to visit three animal shelters. They filled the bonnet of their car with old blankets for elderly dogs, with crunchies, feed and tins scraped together here and there, with stale bread and lots of love, and began their Sunday tour.
Margherita’s eyes filled with wonder whenever they met the grateful gaze of a dog. She happened every time, with every dog, every Sunday.
Margherita was a little girl who didn’t know fatigue and above all believed in her dreams. She would never betray or abandon them for anything in the world.
Here comes the happy ending of Pablo’s story: the former street dog friend of the children has arrived in his new home in Trieste
by George Bracco
For his birthday he had traded the roller skates, which he had longed for, for the equivalent of money which would then be transformed into treats for his beloved Sunday dogs. Her parents tried to dissuade her, because so many prohibitions would not have been good for a child’s heart, but she persevered in building her dream and had no intention of being silenced or appeased by objects or gifts.
For her, the most important thing was and will be saving all the dogs in the world.
I thank Margherita’s parents for allowing me to tell a dream.
Wolf, the dog-partisan who deserted from the SS and became a hero in the Cuneo mountains
by Daniela Borgo
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* Valeria Randone is a psychologist, specialist in clinical sexology in Catania, Milan and online (www.valeriarandone.it) and author of the book “The mender of hearts – Words that mend”. Her great passion for dogs also led her to write for LaZampa and the space was born “For the Love of Animals”
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