By Gudrun Olaya | Project Leader
Dear donor and friend, this is one of my favourite love-stories. Someone found a stray in an extremely poor suburb of Bogotá. It was October, which means rainy season at its worst. That dog, a Chow mix, was a living fossile, so old you couldn’t tell. And there he was, waiting patiently in the pouring rain for a piece of bread or some leftovers. The pics and videos they sent, were heartbreaking and we decided to take him in. The day of his rescue I got that phone call. “There is a problem. The dog has a best friend and they are inseparable”. Well, what could we do? Turned out, his bestie was a cat!!! The image is engraved in my heart: the cat, sitting on his back, guiding him through the streets, helping him to find food. Of course they had to be rescued together!! So one day we welcomed Opa, almost deaf and blind and confused, and his guide Emiliano, such a noble and solidary friend. They spent some good months together, they lived as in simbiosis, never got separated. They slept together, Emiliano always on Opa’s back, they sunbathed together, they shared their food. Until Opa (Grandpa) needed special care and deteriorated notably, so we had to say farewell. Fortunately, we found a forever home for Emiliano, and he could rest from his task as a caregiver and be a normal cat again. Now he was the pampered boy, now he received all the attention he once gave to his best fríend. That was in 2014, and recently we got the news that Opa and Emiliano met again, far away,beyond the rainbow.
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