Dr. Mew meets some cool cats in radioiodine therapy at “Camp Thyroid.”

Sure, those clumps in the kitty litter are stinky. But that’s no reason to act like they’re radioactive.”

At least that’s what I used to tell my human officemate, James Richards, DVM, here in the Cornell Feline Health Center. Then the official feline at the center — that’s me — paid a visit to the so-called Camp Thyroid in the Cornell University Hospital for Animals. What I learned about clinical treatments for hyperthyroid disease — and about a certain by-product from the cats at Camp Thyroid — would set your Geiger counter a-ticking. …

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