I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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We're 99.9% similar to other humans.
96% similar to chimps
90% similar to a cat
85% similar to a mouse
80% similar to a cow
61% similar to a fruit fly
60% similar to a chicken
yup, that's right, we look more like a fruit fly than a KFC
and last but not least
60% similar to a banana, ok, maybe these folks are like 98% similar to a banana, but they're more the exception than the norm.
businessinsider.com - Our DNA is 99.9% the same as the person sitting next to us — and we're surprisingly similar to a bunch of other living things