Reply #98: My dog grew up with a cat, and hes very good with them

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It's funny how he deals with cats, like he would with another dog
Sadly that cat died (freeway) and our next cat, another Spanish orange... he died... (startign to sounds liek a monty python sketch)
our third cat... she's fine, a Burmese/Siamese mix.
beautiful cat, friendly to people, but a voice that can break glass!
Sadly she was about 3 when we got her.
She had a tumor in her uterus, since we always have the animals fixed, that wasn't too much of a problem.
She's not a big fan of our dog, sadly, because I'd like to keep him cat friendly.

Background: My inlaws live in spain (retired from Holland) and they run a kind of animal rescue.
my dog guapo (handsome) is a beautiful black mutt.
his tail was hacked off partially when he was a puppy, and he was a gypsy dog. his owners were run off where they were (violently) by the spanish police - our family got him when he was 2? months old or so.
My wife also had a orange kitten adopt her at 4 weeks (sad story about that) so she had the dog and cat young companions.
they were beyond adorable together.
he had a great meow...but no purr, it's the damnedest thing I've ever seen
you could feel him trilling, but no sound came out.
My wife named him cat - which in a spanish country is a funny name.

The stories I hear from them on how animals are treated there is ... criminal is the politest thing I can say.
The claim of being a "christian" country is sickening.
They rescue about 50+ animals a year, dogs and cats. They generally bring the animals up to Holland where they are found homes across The Netherlands, and Germany. Occasionally, but rarely, france.

They have had to pay to have quite a few animals put down because it would have been cruel (and far too expansive) to keep them alive. They probably spend upwards of 2k euros a year (much more probably)of their own money to care and fees these animals.

They only ask for money to cover the cost of fixing then animals, and even then they wave it if the new owner is kind but maybe a little poor (by dutch standards).

I've been to a rescue in spain, and I was sickened at what i saw. I can completely believe what the OP saw, because if the rescue (outside, little better than the mill, but at least much few animals), some people have no business taking care of other life forms.