Breast Cancer in Your Female Cat

My cat Sugar died from breast cancer. I got Sugar when she was eight years old. She was my first house cat. She was a purebred Siamese. She loved to lay on my lap and sleep in bed with me. She loved to play with tiny sponges. She would gather up any she saw lying around the house. She would toss them up in the air and catch them. Sugar loved to catch flies in her paw and eat them.

Sugar was a very talkative cat. She would meow loudly. A Siamese cat, indeed, sounds like a baby crying.

Sugar was not declawed, and I loved going outdoors occasionally. She would eat grass outdoors. Eating grass helps dislodge your cat’s hairballs.

Sugar grew up in a house that had birds. I had a parakeet. She would sit and watch him sing for hours. When my parakeet died at age ten, she was unfortunate.

Sugar loved to go for car rides. Sugar would sit on my lap and look at the scenery as we drove.

I noticed a lump on one of Sugar’s breast one day. I took her to my vet, and he removed the cancerous lump. The test of the breast tissue removed came back positive for breast cancer. Sugar was eating well and seemed to be getting along fine.

A new lump appeared on her breast. My vet gave her a shot that seemed to slow the growth of the cancerous tumor. Sugar had many growths in a couple of years.

Cancer covered all of her breasts toward the end of her life. Sugar was now sixteen years old. I called my vet to make an appointment to have her put to sleep. I had a burial box with cat toys and a towel to wrap her in. I took her home and buried her. I missed her terribly for a long time.

I never want to see a beloved pet suffer. I remember all of the beautiful times together that we had.

I hope your cat never gets breast cancer.

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