Sunday 22 March 2020 - 2:00pm
ROME - From walking fake dogs to donning skin suits, here are a few Italian ways of keeping boredom at bay during a national lockdown, something the nation of 60 million has been doing for over a week.
- Walk dogs, but only live ones -
Italy is a land of dog lovers and with walking four-legged friends one of the easier ways to legally leave the house, even confessed cat fanciers have begun professing a predilection for puppies. That neighbour who had stopped speaking to you, on the suspicion that it was your innocent creature who peed on her doormat, is now all smiles, offering to dog sit, Corriere della Sera editorialist Massimo Gramellini quips.