I’m ZAUSH, I’m from Milan, Italy. I started Puppy play in September 2015 and I have been to some events in Italy.
I started with some basic stuff: one mask and one plug-tail. In the beginning, I was more interested in puppy play state of mind, then I improved my personality as a puppy and my gear as well.
I always had a weakness for anthropomorphic forms; I have been following the furry sub-culture for a long time: I found the figures of Adam Wan very sexy and exciting and so the character I share the name with: Zaush, I can say that everything started from that: I think that representing human sexual urges through anthropomorphic animals, sporting amazing human bodies is a very interesting idea… don’t get me wrong, it has nothing to do with bestiality or other perversities: I don’t have that kind of interest; it is more a fantasy, impossible to realize 100%, unfortunately, but – believe me – if Adam Wan’s characters existed, I’d be the first to be excited about them. Puppy play practice has been the natural evolution of this fetish.
The hardest obstacle on my way as a puppy was to be able to convey the fact that puppies are not necessarily dog slaves. I noticed that in Italy it is difficult to understand that even though you are down on all fours wearing a dog mask, you are only trying to play the role of a “real dog” and not looking for humiliation or corporal punishment, contrary to a slave, who lowers himself from a human being to an animal, to be treated or even mishandled like a dog.
The message that I would like to convey, also as a representative of the Italian fetish community, is that being a puppy is a state of mind, it is a space where you leave the rational part of your mind and bring out instinct and spontaneity. It really means to dismiss everyday life’s clothes and wear your deeper self for a few hours. In the end, we are just evolved animals and we should never hide our real nature.
