09/09/2024
“We would love to share Rascal’s story because we think he's a brave warrior.
It all started in 2014 when Rascal started to develop a cough, there was no pattern to this cough, it was very random and initially didn’t think much about it, however, that thought was very short-lived when the cough became more frequent even up to six times a day, at that point I knew something wasn’t right, I made an appointment with our vet and took Rascal in.
After some observations, the vet said “this could be feline asthma” I never knew cats could get asthma. We now had to administer him an inhaler which I thought Rascal wouldn’t adjust to as he’s a very independent boy, but he took to his new inhaler like a duck to water, he was a superstar.
Rascal and I were inseparable but his new routine brought us closer together, that would prove to be valuable because tragedy struck in January 2022 when I lost my nan to Covid, Rascal was there, he made the long painful days more bearable.
I decided I wanted to share Rascal’s story so I reached out to a magazine and shared Rascal’s story. It was our goal to make people aware of feline asthma, many people read our story and reached out to our Instagram thanking us for speaking out.
Over the following weeks, we received so many messages from cat parents who said that because of what they read from Rascal’s story they took their cat to the vet, it was very satisfying to know that by sharing our story we could help so many others.
Rascal is my soulmate; my best friend and we are inseparable.”
Thank you, Kelly, for sharing your story of little Rascal (was there ever a photo that matched a name so well?) You guys are clearly made for one another! N x
