A ferret friend sent me a link to an article in Pet Wiki about new advances in dog cancer, pointing me to the paragraph written by Dr Ananya Mandal in June 2010, which said …

“Queensland, Australia scientists have discovered a drug to cure cancer that has effectively worked in animals and is to be tried on humans in the next phase of trials. This drug is plant-derived and is called EBC-46 for trial purposes. The plant from which it is obtained is found in the Australian tropical rainforest. The drug has shown to reduce inoperable tumors in 150 dogs, cats and horses and a ferret to a significant extent. The drug was developed over the past six years from the seed of a rainforest plant found in the Atherton Tablelands. Scientists had cultivated their own plantation of the plant since forming the company QBiotics Limited in 2004.

I was looking at Mojo the other day and realised her tail looked like it was losing hair just at the base. Can you see what I mean here …

Her fur looks just a little bit less at the very top of her tail compared with half in inch below. My heart sank. Having thought Seamus had adrenal problems last year, then finding out that Angus definitely had that disease this year and now Mojo?

I turned her on her back and saw her bald patch …