Lernermichelle
Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:29:45 -0800
Thank you for that information, Sally. It seems, then, that strains are not passed between cats but caused by individual mutations? And that mutations are caused in part by genes and in part by environmental factors? I still have this sense, then, that the fact that my cats keep getting lymphoma must mean something about their environment or care. Not many cats on this list seem to get lymphoma. I have had 2, and possibly 3 (Buddie was never definitively diagnosed and may have had the dry form of FIP but likely had lympoma) die of lymphoma. I have not lost them to anything else at this point. I can not figure that out. They are unrelated genetically, but live together. I thought I might have pinpointed stressors that might have triggered it for Jo and Buddie, but I could not for Simon, unless it was my paying less attention to him and the others right after my dog Nubi died, which is when he got sick. Michelle