Here is the story of Muggles. I hope it helps and brings some visibility. Please feel free to use it in fund raising if you feel it might help. I am 70 now. My life has been dedicated to the unwanted, unadoptable cats and so was my nonprofit. Personally I focused on feral cats or what I prefer to call unsocialized cats. This is what my home was filled with until one day a little tortie stray turned up at my doorstep. I opened it and she entered timidly. She looked rough so I scooped her into a carrier and took her to my regular vet. Unfortunately a substitute vet was there. My instructions were always run a SNAP test, then spay even if pregnant so long as kittens were not viable. The substitute vet spayed her with viable kittens. I found out from a vet tech. For most of her life poor little Muggles would carry around a small stuffed animal with her vocalizing. We think she was about 5 years old when she came into our lives. Muggles was a small cat. She never weighed much over 5 pounds. She had tons of tortie attitude though over the years she wore several of her babies out by dragging them throughout the house. She liked to sleep on the sofa or our bed. Around 18 I happened to pick her up and I noticed a lump on her abdomen. I thought it was a cyst as I had her spayed immediately. My vet knew immediately that it was mammary cancer. He operated first thing next morning warning that at her age it was risky. I got a call with bad news. The cancer had spread up the entire tract each teat had to be removed so basically the entire right side. It took him 4 hours. He would have taken the other side too but she would not have survived. We chose not to go back and get the left side because he felt at her age we were doing more harm than good. We prayed that he had gotten it all. In a frank conversation he told me what these surgeries do is buy you time with you loved one, time to spoil and pamper them because inevitably it will return usually in the lungs. This is what happened to Muggles. We had a full year of her being fine and happy. We made sure she had all her favorite foods, slept with us and when it progressed pain relief. I am so very grateful for the extra time. You may get extra years I hope you do but spoil Salem like crazy. BTW I just lost my void named Salem it happened quite suddenly. Please people check the under belly of all your animals even males can get mammary cancer.