In this page I would like to show you our house, our garden and our wonderful dogs. Mauro and I love them so much, they cohabit without problems with us and with Coby who is an european black cat, he lives with them thinking of being a dog himself, playing and behaving like a proper dog......the only thing he can't do is barking!!!! All this is situated in the near suburb of Latina, five minutes from the town center.  Completely immersed in the country, among streams, bridges, small lakes and many animals like dwarf goats, sheeps, herons and beautiful follow-deers there is our small but very cosy house. All around there is our garden,  1000 square meters large, where our friend scan run, play and enjoy themselves all day long. The family in the garden is made of: Loky who is a belgian Tuervueren, he is almost 15 years old ( a real record for his breed ) he is the old one of the house, he is a very good friend, faithful and very affectionate. He always follow the owner, and he is always ready to play with him with his big head in order to get his attention, love and strokes. Since when he was a puppy, he has been trained to guard and he has always been ready in case of need. One evening, during summer 2001, some thieves entered our garden to steal some equipments, Loky realized what was happening and attacked them and made them run away even if they hit him on his head. The second one is Ghibi he has adopted two years ago from Latina's dog-kennel.Now he is three and very clever. He is also very affectionate,he behaves like he always lived in our house, he is the first one to say hello in the morning,  as soon as he hears the door keys,  an the last one to say good night. He is joyfull and loves playing, since the beginning he has always had a good feeling with Loky even if they are both males, they are very good friends and always look for each other.After a short search on Internet we got toknow that he belongs to " Polish sheep dog " breed.He is also very good as door bell, infact, as soon as he hears a car parking outside he starts barking and stops  only when the person goes inside the house. During winter we let them sleep inside the warm-up place where we wash,comb and brush them. Loky has his personal blanket and Ghibi has anoval basket that used to belong to the cats,but now it's his own and nobody can touch it!!! Than we have the two golden retriever female puppies, we call them like that even if they weight almost 45 kilos each! We did a long search in Internet, we spent a lot of time but eventually we got them from a doctor in Piacenza. We had a nice adventure to take them home, we drove for about 15 hours we run for about 1300 kilometers, go and back of course. He has been a little difficult for them, at the beginning, to get used to our house but after a short time Cuky and May ( those are their names ) got familiarity with the garden, Loky and Ghibi. Atthe time they weighted almost 8 kilos each, two different furs one light honey and the other dark honey . They were two real tanks, during that summer they destroyed the garden, digging everywhere and by the beginning of autumn we didn't have anymore our beautiful garden but only mud and mould! So we decided to build only for them a private box with private garden, situated near the cats house,so that they could spend the night there and calm down a little bit, it looks like it worked!To say that they are very affectionate it is useless, since when they were puppies they have always been very obedient, they play with everything that rolls and looks like a ball or a stick. They have hundreds of plays , all around the garden,  like fake bones, all kind of balls, two big rubber chickens and many others...........They keep us company and give us a lot of love.They adore Mirella ( my mother ) and every morning they play with her for at least half an hour, theyjump on her and hug her just like  a person! They live for each other, if one drinks some water the other does the same, if one eats sodoes the other one and so on, they doeverything together without exceptions.They revived our life so we are thinking to give the same happiness to somebody else by making them mating and having new puppies.The last one to join this family is a small european cat we called Coby.We found him outside our gate just before Christmas 2005, he was only about 50 days old, he was so small and undefended that we decided to adopt him. He cried so loudly that we couldn't ignore him, we gave him some food and later a complete check up, we treated him for intestinal parasitics and administered him all needed vaccines.  We gave him a proper place where to sleepjust outside our place under the porch.When he was six months old we sterilized him to avoid bad experiences with other cats and makehim stay inside the garden.He immediately made friends with Loky, Ghibi, Cuky and Mai and now he could't live without them! Now he guards the house and send away the other cats. He eats only first quality food and every evening at the same time he is there at his residence to get his pap before spending a night with all kind of comforts.  Very early in the morning Mauro,before getting to work, opens the door to let him go in the  garden, Coby stretchs and startsplaying with Loky and Ghibi and with anything else he finds around. At the beginning,  the relationship with Cuky and May wasn't so good, he was scared but slowly, like all european cats, got used to them he obtained respect and now he is the leader, he decides when it's time to play and when to relax. At first the liveliness of the two little ones got on the old ones' nerves "uncle Ghibi and grandfather Loky, but they got used to those two terriblegirls who brought them back the will of playing and running especially Loky , because of his age and infermities, had become lazy and his favourite hobby was to sleep and eat! Behind our house, in a corner of thegarden, there is our beloved cats residence, it is very confortable and very well equipped. It's a brick constructionwith wooden roof and canadian tiles, a large glass window on the garden fromwhere our cats can see beautiful white callas, lemons, mimosas and nuts trees.Our cats love watching through the glass window, they can see birds flying, coloured butterflies and they try to catch them from the inside, jumping around and climbing like real felines ....and you forget about sweet and quiet persian cats, but you see real hunters! The funniest thing it is to look at our four dogs, they spend hours watching the cats playing, they try to play together and every now and then they bark at them from outside the large glass window. Cats do the same, they would liketo play with them , they try to touch thedogs through the glass. We never get bored,we always find something to do, we have to work hard in order to settle the all thing, but love and affection we receive from our CATS and DOGS make us forget the heavy work and weariness.