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Follow up story I found: World's fattest cat dies after going on a harsh diet | Al Bawaba
Contrary to what the headline implies, Crumbs didn't die from the weight loss program, rather from tumors which weren't detected in time due to the excess weight. Rest in peace Crumbs! π±
Edit: typo
*lifelong friend dies of medical complications *
News agencies: "<friend> dies after spending a lot of time with <me>"
Honestly...even without the excess weight, I don't know if the tumors would have been discovered in time. It's not like you regularly give a cat an ultrasound to screen for cancer. Cancer often grows internally undetected until it's too late... especially in animals where they do not display outward symptoms of their disease until advanced stages.
Well there goes the smidge of happiness I scrounged up for the day...
Watch this channel then π https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2M30ZXeWNo
every day probably thousands of cats (and other animals) are taken in by kind people and given loving lives
Sometimes the world is cruel to shiny thingsβ¦
That poor cat. :(