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I'm taking part in The Echo's Women's Mini Marathon 2024 on the 22nd of September.

I've chosen to fundraise for Cork Cat Action Trust in memory of our beautiful boy, Gus, who passed away in April this year. We adopted Gus along with his sister, Niska, on New Year's Eve 2020, just hours before the country was plunged into another lockdown.

Gus was the sweetest little boy who loved to lounge on his window bed watching the world go by. He adored the feeling of a warm pizza box under his bum, and would ensure all attention was on him during games night when he'd flop down in the middle of the table awaiting pets. He made sure to always inspect the shopping bags to see if we got him anything, and would be quick to start knocking things off the worktop if he wasn't getting enough attention!

In 2022, we discovered that Gus had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition which can be managed with medication, but is ultimately incurable. At not even 2 years old, we were devastated. Our wonderful team of veterinary professionals at The Cat Hospital in Glanmire helped up tremendously to cope with the news. Our motto became "quality over quantity" as we strived to give him the best possible life. Gus required a lot of medication, scans, and a low stress environment, but remained happy and cheeky throughout his disease progression. Like clockwork, he would wait on his stool in the kitchen when it was time for his tablets, and he'd breeze through his vet visits like a champ.

On the 3rd of April he developed saddle thrombus which didn't respond to emergency veterinary treatment and we ultimately had to make the heartbreaking call to end his suffering under the guidance of our vet. Words can't describe the pain we felt after losing our boy. We still chat about him often and reminisce how he would wake up his dad by licking his beard, sit on his stool in the kitchen watching me make dinner, or insist on washing his sister when they'd cuddle up in bed together.

He came to us as a tiny little fluffball having been scooped up off the streets of Youghal by Cat Action Trust and we cannot thank them enough for bringing this little boy and his sister into our lives.

I hope you can help me by donating whatever you can. Simply click the Donate button above. All donations are processed securely and all funds raised here will go directly to this wonderful charity who works tirelessly to rescue, rehabilitate, rehome, and support cats all over Cork.

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