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Despite Rome being well-known across the world as the resting place of emperors, popes, martyrs, and kings from Augustus to Saint Peter, very few people are aware that Mussolini kept a pet chicken. The hen is buried in the oldest pet cemetery in Italy, which this year marks 100 years of interring much-missed cats, dogs, and other canine and feline companions in an odd graveyard southwest of the capital.
Federico Fellini, the director of “La Dolce Vita,” Oscar-winning actress Anna Magnani, and Brigitte Bardot—whose poodle suddenly away while the French sex legend was filming a movie in Rome—are among those who own purebred pets.
The most well-known was the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
The children’s playmate had won the family’s cherished pet Great Dane, “Il Duce,” at a fair when it was a chick, and the dog was buried in a parcel of land owned by Molon’s father.
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The burial of the nearly famous bird, however, inspired others, and soon the elder Molon’s backyard was transformed into a pet cemetery. This cemetery was later given a permit by the Rome government.
The vast majority of animals at Casa Rosa today, from Carlitos the Shih Tzu to Lord Byron the Irish Setter, have less illustrious ancestry, but they are no less loved.
Along with horses, rabbits, monkeys, hamsters, turtles, ducks, pigeons, parrots, sparrows, and other animals, the earth also contains a lioness named Greta.
The ritual of making a visit and giving flowers or plush animals “is nothing more than the continuing of combing him or taking him for a walk,” he added, with his yippy white terrier Jenny by his side.
The cost of a five-year plot was not disclosed by Molon, although rumours suggest it is about 150 euros ($146) per year. Although many people renew their plot, many more do not, giving others the opportunity to fill their space.
A ginger cat without a tail that Molon rescued but hasn’t given a name to naps on fake green grass atop an unmarked mausoleum decorated in dog figurines.
Along with Mike Tyson the Scotty, Michelangelo the yellow Labrador, and Cindy the rabbit, there were also two stuffed bunny toys buried over her grave.