Just in case anyone draws any incorrect conclusions from my mention about Spot having had kidney disease -- he did NOT have growths, and the cause of his damage was very well known. He'd been through a very bad strain of ECE which lasted a number of months and left him with damage, so he kept having bouts of dehydration which sub-Q injections weren't enough to control at times. Others with long experience will have run into similar things or read of such cases -- not uncommon, though I hope they someday will be. [Posted in FML issue 2614]