Quote Originally Posted by crow_noir

King was good with cats inside, but outside cats were still fair game to him. (And this is a dog who loved everything under the sun and refused to kill... almost everything. I think he would have only chased the outside cats, but i never gave him the chance for me to find out.)

It is very sad that this happened with your cat. but it is also very
unfair to put the "blame" on the dog for acting according to his nature.
Yes, they are our pets, but they are animals & will act according to their
natures. My dogs get along very well with my 5 indoor cats, but if one of
the cats would venture outside (especially if the cat were to run across
the yard) the dogs would chase & try to catch that cat. It would
break my heart to lose a cat like that, but I would be the one responsible,
not the dog or the cat.

My youngest cat, Joey, got out the back door once when I was letting the
dogs out into the backyard. cat saw the dogs approach & started to run.
Maggie had already reached Joey & tumbled him head over heels before I
could reach him. I did manage to get both dogs inside & then retrieved
Joey off the 6ft fence. No harm, no foul, that time, but it could very well
have ended entirely different.