On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:36:59 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:33:24 -0500, Chambers wrote:
>>
>> > Normally quite large (at one time he weighed more than 30 lbs!), over
>> > the last year he's suffered from cancer, and lost a lot of weight. 
>> > The past few months, he stopped eating his dry food, although he
>> > would still eat cans of wet food.
>>
>> So sorry to hear this; growing up, we lost 3 cats to bone cancer, and
>> what you describe here was symptomatic of what our three went through
>> (they had it in their jaw).
> 
> weird.  Could it be industrialized food?
> 
> OTOH, animals in the wild don't ever live this long so they rarely die
> by diseases alone, except as a side-effect:  being too weak to run...

What we were told at the time was it had to do with using clay cat litter 
- that the stuff available at the time (not sure about now) contained 
carcinogens.

Jim

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