lymphoma in cats

last night I had the awful experience of taking the worlds best cat in the world to the vet. he had been ill for some time, having lost half his body weight, which can be hard to judge because of all the hair. in the last few days I could see he seemed not only to be not eating, but almost seemed to be repulsed by food.



it turned out he had a mass in either his stomach or small intestine of about at least ten cm long and a few wide... I was offered a biopsy, but the feeling was it would show up as cancer and I just couldn't justify putting him in more pain to discover what was pretty damn obvious anyway.



we've always known he was on a limited life expectancy anyway, as he was a badly affected cat flu case. He also at times appeared to have a positive death wish, as he over the course of a few years, threw himself off a very high tree, broke his back, just where it becomes the tail... lost a fight with a car, you name it.. sadly he was only four or five.

but, he was such a lovely cat, very dog like, one of the rare ones who LOVE people...

Anyway, my question is... do cats actually get a lot of cancer? I know dogs have a very frightening high rate of cancer, but I never knew of that many cats..

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