Lisa Garavaglia recommends BuckandSons Bulldogs: Hi Luana, last night I had a crazy dream. I dreamed that I was telling you an anecdote by Moreno Maltagliati. Thinking about it when I was awake, I realized that in fact there are some things that Moreno had told me about you years ago and perhaps (my esoteric approach 😃) he would like you to know them. I was having lunch with him, after eating we sit on his sofa and while I was cuddling Dave he would tell me about the most beautiful Italian bulldogs in the history of the breed. I looked at Dave and one of his sons (the white, deaf one, whom I liked so much) and I asked him why in Italy there were so many huge bulldogs and so few like his: compact, small, proportionate. I remember he called you "La Martinini" and never mentioned the name of the affix. He said that in the last 20 years he had seen only one breeding succeed in obtaining an indisputable and above all recognizable quality: yours. He told me about this woman "La Martinini" of great talent both as a breeder and as an entrepreneur. Maybe 20 years ago or a little more he met you at the expo and was very impressed by one of your subjects, maybe you had exchanged a few words but you didn't have the confidence and you didn't know each other yet but he had already understood that you would have made your way. The last time I heard Moreno on the phone he had already moved to his new residence, it was last summer. I had called him to ask him for a "technical" opinion on the dogs with short fingers presented at the expo. After some chat, he talked to me again about you. He told me that I had great potential but that I had to make the most of it with my dogs. He told me I had to call you, come and see you, and learn from you and take you as an example. I remember she said something to me like “she's number one, she knows too much, she can teach you secrets”. Honestly, I never felt like telling you this, for several reasons. Today perhaps it can make sense. I wanted you to know one thing (take it as a hindsight): contacting you and buying Nina - through Francesco - was the only way to get in touch with you. We actually met then.