Cancer does not just affect human beings, cats can also be prone to the ill affects of this deadly disease. Our family has a number of animals one of which is a beautiful cat called Pip. In the following few paragraphs I will be writing about how Pip managed to overcome Cancer with some help from our wonderful local vets.
Pip is a beautiful and loving cat and is very much part of our family. She is ninety-five percent white in colour, the other five percent is black. My experience with animals has made me very much aware of the increased possibility that white furred cats have of contracting cancer in comparison to other coloured furred cats.
I regularly check Pip over when I am stroking her etc. On one particular morning I noticed something rather out of the ordinary – she had what I can only describe as small black spots in and around her ears. I have to say that these were very much new spots as they had not been there the week before. I was slightly worried as I love Pip to bits – there was no way that I was going to take any sort of chance or delay any treatment that may be required – therefore we took her to the vets immediately. In my heart of hearts I believed that Pip would be fine but I just did not want to take any unnecessary risks. I had pet insurance in place in any case.
The vet examined Pip and looked quite worried. He told us that Pip had a form of pre-cancer and that the only way that she would survive, in his opinion, would be to have her ears amputated.
This was not something we were best pleased with but at the end of the day we realised that we had no choice. This all happened four years ago and Pip is still going strong today, unaware of how close she was to losing her life. The vet has stated that if I had not checked her out and brought her in to be examined that the cancer would have spread and that Pip would have only lived for around three to six months.
Steve Hill is an SEO consultant from the UK who also runs a DVD authoring company here in the UK
Tags: cat, Cats, pet insurance, Pip
