[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder if it's some kind of prion disease, like BSE?

[TheOldLady]

Oh great. Yet another scary bunch of stuff to worry about, as if there weren't enough crazy-making stories out there already.   Sigh...

[jocon307]

“Their best guess is that the pets caught the disease while out hunting.”

You could be right about that. Me no like Prions AT ALL.

What seems to be a bad contributor to that type of disease is “cannabalism” eating your own kind. They think that’s what caused the mad cow disease, putting ground up animal by-products in the animal’s feed; and I read another article about a similar disease in some pacific island land (or some such!) where the victors would eat the brains of the defeated.

So, if you are going to be a cannibal, stick to the thigh meet.