Yes, keep a health and weight log for your Raas Cat, because with this breed your notebook does work that published references cannot. The Raas comes from Madura Island in Indonesia and remains rare outside its home region, which means most veterinarians will meet few, if any, during a career, and breed-specific health data is thin compared with the well-studied popular breeds. Your dated record of her weight, appetite, habits, and changes becomes the most reliable description of what a healthy Raas looks like, and it describes the only Raas that truly matters for her care: her.
Building a baseline for a breed without one
Start the log while she is well, because a baseline written during good health is what makes later entries meaningful. Weigh her every few weeks on the same scale, feel along her ribs and note how easily they are found, and record her typical eating pattern: how much she asks for, how eagerly, and at what times of day. Write down her normal litter habits, her usual energy across the day, where she sleeps, how playful she is, and the condition of her short coat and skin. Add a monthly photograph taken from the side and from above in similar light. Individually these notes seem unremarkable; together, after a year, they form a portrait of her normal that no generic breed profile could supply, and any departure from it stands out clearly enough to describe precisely to a vet.
What to watch in daily Raas life
Raas cats are often described as strongly bonded and somewhat reserved with strangers, so changes in how she relates to her own household are meaningful entries. Note withdrawal, unusual clinginess, irritability at being picked up, or a drop in her interest in play and food, alongside the physical basics of eating, drinking, urination, and stools. Record appetite carefully in both directions: a cat eating noticeably more while losing weight is telling a different story from one eating less and losing weight, and that distinction, dated in your log, helps a clinician decide where to look first.
Keeping a rare breed's records complete
Because specialists and even general vets may need to research as they treat her, keep the log alongside copies of her core paperwork rather than scattered around the house. Vaccination dates, test results, appointment summaries, and any letters from clinics belong with the weigh-ins and notes, in date order, so the whole file reads as one continuous history. If she was imported or travelled to reach you, keep those journey and arrival details at the front, since early-life history is exactly what gets lost for rare breeds passed between breeders, carriers, and owners. A complete, portable history raises the quality of every consultation she ever has, because no time is wasted reconstructing basics and nothing important depends on your memory under stress.
Knowing when an entry becomes a phone call
Treat persistent trends and sudden changes differently. A gradual drift in weight, thirst, or appetite across several entries deserves a booked appointment where you present the log and ask what could explain the pattern. Sudden signs bypass the log-and-book route: not eating at all, repeated vomiting, straining without passing urine, breathing difficulty, collapse, or a dramatic behaviour change in a normally steady cat all warrant contacting a vet the same day. In those moments your record still helps, giving exact timings and recent weights instead of estimates. Keeping her log in KinsLe within her Pet Passport means that carefully built history is stored with her other records in one portable packet, ready for a new vet, an emergency clinic, or a future owner who inherits both the cat and the knowledge of what is normal for her.