Do cats have #madcow?

I can't believe scientists haven't thought of that suggestion for "robotic disease" after not finding a pathogenic cause.

Here's the basics of what's up:

The cats seemed to have a slowly-pro­g­ress­ing neu­ro­lo­g­i­cal dis­ease, and to have de­vel­oped it start­ing at a late age, the re­search­ers said. The ill­ness did­n’t kill any of the fe­lines, they added, but over time ap­peared to make their lives so mis­er­a­ble that some own­ers de­cid­ed to have them put down.

From that, and one other thing, here's why I suggest mad cow:

First, the where of the illness. Definitely in Scotland, possibly in northern Europe, other locations. And, the UK was the epicenter of mad cow disease. Assume that downer cows were processed into pet food at the same time the human scare was happening and possibly even illicitly after a ban on human food use of downers.

Second, the symptoms. Slowly progressing, and it's called staggering disease, too. Doesn't that sounds like a bad-prion infested "mad" cow? Does to me.

More evidence for prions as mad-cow disease cause

Scientists have created the first lab-engineered prion to cause brain wasting.

Why does R-CALF opposed tighter U.S. BSE testing?

R-CALF USA ,, the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America, has some great ideas, like mandatory country of origin labeling of beef products.

And, I know the great majority of bovine spongiform encephaly cows in North America have been of Canadian origin.

Nonetheless, why do you protest the idea of U.S. testing and certification, and instead, in essence, try to blame everything on Canada?

Don’t give me this “government snooping” line, either.

From a consumer point of view, it looks like you’re afraid and have something to hide.

Let’s have better country of origin labeling AND much more stringent testing of U.S. beef. After all, many of you are the folks who fed beef offal, or offal of other ruminants, to cattle for decades in the first place.

And, let me rephrase your claim, referred to in the second paragraph, to say:

The great majority of known bovine spongiform encephaly cows in North America have been of Canadian origin.

Maybe it’s lax U.S. testing that’s part of why we have so many Canadian mad cows and so few U.S.-born ones.