Woman adopts dumped kitten, then he started having weird cough
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00:00 Dash was found in a sealed box that was thrown into the dumpster with his brothers.
00:03 My name is Lindsay and this is Dash's story for GeoBeats.
00:07 Are you okay baby?
00:09 I don't understand how people could just abandon animals never mind just throwing them away.
00:12 Dash!
00:13 Hi!
00:16 I don't understand it and I never will.
00:18 When I got to the rescue, Dash was the only one left out of that litter of his brothers.
00:22 I decided to bring him home with Luna because they were bonded.
00:30 Come on out!
00:32 I was a little nervous to get two kittens.
00:33 Come on, push it open.
00:34 Aww.
00:36 Now it's the best decision ever.
00:38 Dash open it up for her.
00:39 Alexa, meow.
00:45 I highly recommend it to anyone because they keep each other so entertained.
00:48 Dash.
00:52 When Dash was about eight months old, I started noticing something was off with him.
00:56 He would just randomly kind of tilt to the side and cough a little bit just a few times.
01:00 What's the matter?
01:04 I went to show the vet and did an x-ray and that's when he saw, oh yeah, he's got asthma.
01:08 Good morning.
01:08 And I was like, he's only 10 months old and he said, oh that's normal.
01:11 I'm like, what?
01:12 It was just shocking to me.
01:14 I would stress out every day because I worked a 10-hour day and I just never wanted to leave
01:17 because I never knew if he was going to stop breathing.
01:20 We had a really hard time managing it for the first four or five months until I went to a specialist.
01:24 Ready to do your puff puff?
01:25 Good boy.
01:30 Ready for puff puff?
01:31 He needs to take the inhaler twice a day, every 12 hours.
01:34 Are you ready?
01:34 You're not ready?
01:37 Seven.
01:38 He has to take 10 breaths.
01:39 Eight.
01:40 Nine.
01:42 Ten.
01:46 We call it his puff puff party.
01:47 He's a bit of a quirky boy.
01:48 So there are times where, like this morning, it was in a different place and he was like,
01:52 whoa, like he actually didn't take the full 10 breaths.
01:54 He only took eight.
01:54 It's the new one.
01:55 Are you going to do it today?
01:56 He's holding his breath so far.
01:57 Still holding it.
01:58 There we go.
02:01 But he trusts me, of course, and we just have to do it is what it is.
02:04 We've been doing this now for four years.
02:06 He's really smart.
02:08 Super smart.
02:09 What are you doing?
02:09 He's funny.
02:11 He's a weirdo.
02:12 Alexa, meow.
02:13 Your brother's crazy.
02:19 His nickname is Dash Hole because he can be a little rude to his sister.
02:22 Are you comfortable, Dash?
02:23 He's always been up at four or five in the morning, hangry.
02:26 He barges in and sometimes I jump out of bed.
02:28 It's scary.
02:29 He just gets more nervous at night, I think.
02:31 I can't explain it, really.
02:32 He just acts different at night.
02:33 What are you doing?
02:34 There's a loud noise or something spooks him.
02:37 He's really quirky at night.
02:38 Want to get brushed?
02:39 He wants to be pet and loved on his terms.
02:42 If I try to just go up to him, like, oh, I love you, I will get pushed away.
02:44 He is just so independent and I respect that.
02:48 Hi, baby.
02:49 He's my boy.
02:49 We've been through so much together.
02:51 He's been to the vet a million times.
02:53 He's had two surgeries.
02:54 Oh, my boy.
02:55 I mean, my God, he really has been through it all.
02:57 You're such a brave boy.
02:59 Yes, you are.
03:01 He's the bravest boy.
03:03 He's so resilient.
03:04 I love him so much.
03:05 Alexa, meow.
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