EDITING: pets+ cancer =/= "I'm doomed" thinking by the doggie. Good doggie.

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</div>I've never been a pet-lover. Pets are cute. If I had one, I could live till I was at least 80. Well, we have more important causes of death like traffic accidents and tornadoes and flooding to worry about. Don't get me wrong. I'm very sad about disaster to corn crops, as this does nothing but raise worldwide food prices and those poor people in the poor countries, they always seem to suffer losses about 10 times more than the developed world does in our disasters. Anyways, I wonder exactly ....... I really love this quote: <blockquote> First, our goals with chemotherapy are different than they are in human medicine. Since humans do not have the "humane" option of euthanasia people must be cured of cancer. It rarely happens aside from some lymphomas and leukemias. What does happen is that the patient must be treated within inches of death to kill off all the tumor cells. In dogs and cats our goal is to provide symptom free quality life for as long as that is possible. I feel that chemotherapy is not a replacement for euthanasia per se, but may allow the pet and owners to spend happy time together. This gives the pet a quality life, and the owners time to get used to the loss. Since we use lower doses of chemotherapy, the dogs do not get a sick. They also don't have the "I've got cancer I'm doomed mentality" and many are quite happy (often to the distress of thier owners!) </blockquote> Now, if we could all be pure buddhists, we could have no past, no future and we could only live in the present and then nothing is really bad anymore. That's where I want to be. 
 
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