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
