LET'S TALK PETS - PATTY GIARRUSSO
Business:Non-Profit
Cora is a college professor working on her PhD in Psychology. She is certified in pet psychology, human psychology, and child psychology along with pet first aid, pet nutrition, animal reiki, and she is working on her FEMA animal disaster management certification.
Cora started her college career in archaeology and has worked with many Native American groups on cultural preservation and social and environment justice issues. Animals and nature have always been her first loves.
Her mission with Faeryland’s Farm is to provide a safe space for animals, humans, and nature to heal because she believes that in this chaotic world, love and positivity wins because the animals prove it so. Cora claims to have no special powers or gifts because the animals are the ones that provide all the love and healing while she just speaks human. She acts as their conduit. The health, happiness, safety, and well-being of the animals is top priority and Cora has worked very hard in her life to achieve her goal of having an animal sanctuary to provide that safe space for learning and healing.
In addition to 11 goats, the farm has 3 cats, 4 rabbits, 2 dogs, one of which is 18, 2 turtles, fish, ducks, chickens, guineas, one donkey, and one husband in addition to the numerous wildlife that frequents the area.
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Faeryland’s Farm is a concept grown from Cora’s love of animals and nature. Consciousness exists in everything, and the farm is a magical place that helps to shape the human-nature bond.
Cora has traveled across the United States camping and hiking with her dog Little Bear that is now 18 years old. Little Bear has been an archaeologist, documentarian, Indian Activist, and wander and world traveler. Cora got her first goat about 8 year ago on a ranch out in the
Mohave Desert named Baby that was her bottle baby who tragically died about the age of two years old. However, Baby’s legacy lives on and she was the inspiration.
In addition to her therapy and educational work with the animals, Cora teaches a wide range of subjects from anthropology to history to psychology and cultural studies. Her PhD focus is mindfulness and how animals and nature enhance our mindfulness practices. Cora loves her animals dearly and cannot imagine life without them, as she has worked very hard in her life to have them. She believes that goats are great therapy animals because each one has its own unique personality and they just seem to have an inner knowing of what people need. Cora loves all the animals very dearly, and she does have a main therapy goat named Chocolate (pronounced Shock-o-lot); Chocolate’s therapy goat is Patience, and it is not uncommon to see the three of them together walking around the farm or in the truck along with Max the lab puppy.
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