Rare Cancer Strikes Abilene Zoo’s Jaguar

Roo Team October 22, 2019 Veterinary Medicine Share

Estrella the Jaguar

If you thought treating cancer in house cats was difficult, try administering chemo to a cat 15 times the size of one. I think we’re all in agreement that cats don’t always make the easiest patients… The veterinarians at the Abilene Zoo are looking at safe treatment options for their four-year-old jaguar, Estrella.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”

-Paracelsus

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