Co-owner of Charleston's only cat cafe discovers she's allergic to cats [View all]

Ashley Brooks always knew she would have to face the truth one day.

A cat lover since childhood, she says she grew up living with three or four cats at a time and has suffered from congestion for as long as she can remember. As a young child she didn't really attribute her symptoms to anything, but in high school she started to catch on.

"I realized if I touched my eyes they would get itchy," she admitted. "So I thought, 'okay I just won’t touch my face.'"

Brooks put the idea out of her head and continued to live a life filled with feline friends. She was in the planning stages of opening Pounce Cat Cafe last summer when a skin irritation developed that she couldn't get rid of.

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