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• 31 July 2007

Your Animal Rescues

Meet Belle and Rosie, who prove cats and dogs do get on.

Teresa from Silkstone Common, South Yorks has been in touch to tell us her Animal Rescue stories:

We answered an advert in a free paper when we found our Belle. She was named after the girl in Beauty and the Beast, but really she was more like the beast. She was housed in a filthy kennel with only urine soaked sacking to sleep on with two bigger and older dogs bullying her. We were told that she was no good for hunting rabbits.

Being half Bedlington Terrier, she should have had grey curls. Instead she had sparse sprouts of hair, her pink skin showing through. Nick, my partner, was not very keen to take her but saw that I was smitten. After several visits to the vet we sorted out her mange. Then her lovely grey curls finally appeared. 12 years on she is the most affectionate and lively little dog any one could have. She really is 'Belle' and the best £40 I have ever spent.

Teresa also has a cat rescue story:

I had planned to collect one fluffy, fudge-coloured kitten from my sister's farm to replace our lovely old Watson who had sadly died at a good age.

When I stood over the kitten basket to take my kitten there was another sorry looking little white one, eyes gummed up so solidly that she could not see.

I knew that if I left her she was unlikely to survive the hard life on the farm. So I took her as well.

Once I got her home and cleaned her up she was lovely. The pair of them fluffy and cute, looked like chocolate box kittens. The kids named them Rosie and Jim.

Very sadly Jim was killed on the railway line. Rosie has survived to be a friendly, loving cat, but still gets gummy eyes on a regular basis even though she is now 11 years old. She and our dog Belle are good friends.