My mini panther has been gradually losing weight over the last six or so months. Backwards and forwards to the vet, couldn't find anything wrong. No other symptoms. Got far worse in January so I insisted on more tests. Then a couple of weeks ago the area around one eye started swelling and his eye weeping. After six weeks of blood tests, scans, biopsies and CT scans and ruling out FIV, feline leukaemia, FIP, toxoplasmosis, coronavirus and countless other things, they've today confirmed the worst - he has a malignant mass behind his eye and in his lungs. I'm heartbroken. Vet called this morning to confirm. He had a steroid and antibiotic jab two days ago and had really perked up so I was optimistic that it was just a bad infection. Vet advised putting him to sleep is the best option - tumour behind eye could be removed but his eye would also need to be removed to get to it and there's no guarantee after having put him through all that that it would give him much longer and vet doesn't think it we should do it (nor do I). Plus it's already spread to his lungs. Steroids could keep him going for a few more months and/or chemo if we wanted to go down that route. I'm desperate to hang onto him for a while longer but I can't bear to think that he might be suffering. Vet thinks he isn't too much yet but the eye growth may start to give him headaches. I know what we need to do. So unfair, he's so young. We're moving soon to a house with a huge garden which backs onto woods and he would have been so happy there :( Do I do this now or see how he goes? He was purring and cuddling up to me last night and is eating better - vet said this was because of the steroid injection he'd given him. He was a rescue, he and his siblings were dumped at a sanctuary, and we've had him since he was 9 weeks old. Vet is surprised that he has this so young. I can't really take it in.