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The recent death of our boxer coupled with my wife's assertion who is in veterinary medicine, that canine cancer is in such prevalence, many opinions and good sense have come through. Being of simple mind, I have a belief system going that cancer may not be the natural ender of life as we are seeing and that it may be something we are doing to our dogs (and ourselves) that may be causing a very unnatural death. There has been an assertion that after cells replicate so many times, dna goes haywire and cancer takes hold. My question is what makes dna go haywire. Shouldn't things stop living when cells simply no longer have the energy to replicate instead of what we are seeing now where immature cells just take over because replicating has gone crazy? Is death by cancer an inevitable event for our dogs who live beyond 10 years of age? My 13 year old boxer was jumping up on our bed of 30" high and only a month before was running and jumping like he was 2. He had much life left in him until his cancer metastasised so quickly. Theories so far have been foods, medicines, certainly genetics. Can this discussion become endless? I suppose that's true of many discussions on subjects pondered about. None the less, I think its a topic that can go for a little bit more. My personal opinion is we feed too many simple carbohydrates to our buddies, we feed them too much food at a time and where the heck are the assertions not widely published on this alleged war on cancer that's been going on for almost half a century. I may be half baked but there could be a set of simple answers that because there might be several of such, makes it look so overwhelmingly complex. I still wonder how long Bubba or any other dog would have lived if they did not contract this disease.