Sentences with phrase «diabetic cats do»

Regardless of this variability, all diabetic cats do best with consistent medication, consistent feeding, and a stable, stress - free lifestyle.

In my experience, diabetic cats do better on high protein / low carbohydrate diets.

Caring for a diabetic cat does require dedication on the owners part.

Not exact matches

Do not give any drug to your cat without first discussing it with your veterinarian, as many drugs will adversely affect diabetic patients.

LISTEN HERE as Dr. Colleran explains why there are SO many diabetic cats out there — lots more than we ever did before.

i had another diabetic cat 3 years ago and did not encounter insulin resistance... help!

I wanted to check her facts since she mentioned that she didn't work with diabetic cats very often.

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Now, as we mentioned, this might not be right for diabetic cats or overweight cats (there is potato in the recipe), but if you have a healthy indoor cat that doesn't vacuum up food scraps like a Hoover, then this would probably work well for them.

If you need to board a diabetic cat with us, there will be a daily glucose monitoring fee even if you do not regularly monitor it at home.

Fortunately, properly managed diabetic cats live long happy lives, with some doing so well that their insulin injections can be stopped.

I do not suggest any of the commercially available dry formulas for diabetic cats as a first - choice diet.

I usually suggest that a cat be fed an equal portion of its daily diet just after each of its insulin injections, but there are diabetic cats that do just fine when they receive their insulin shortly after eating.

I do not want you to base the treatment of your diabetic cat on this article.

Regarding the choice of insulin for cats, Novolan and Humulin N unfortunately generally do not have a long enough duration of activity sufficient to provide all day regulation of diabetic cats.

Do not feed any of our other foods to a diabetic cat.

(A single elevated blood or urine glucose test does not prove that your cat is diabetic)

I am going to, on a different track but definitely related, next time I'm talking about pet diabetes, specifically dog and cat diabetes, that is something that is a growing epidemic as well and it's something that I think a lot of pet owners aren't educated about and they don't know what signs to look for, as many as one in five dogs now have canine diabetes and I'm not exactly sure the statistics on cats but that's a growing number as well, I know it's less in cats because cats can actually go into diabetic remission.

Cataracts are virtually unavoidable in diabetic dogs no matter how good the insulin regulation is; diabetic cats have alternative sugar metabolism in the eye and do not get cataracts from diabetes.

Cats, for example, do not get the cataracts that dogs do, or the arthrosclerosis of the blood vessels that causes human diabetics such problems as gangrenous toes which dogs will chew off by the way!

Did you know that cats can be diabetic?

If you have decided to start feeding your diabetic cat a low carbohydrate diet, please do not change the diet until you review my Feline Diabetes page — especially the STOP sign section — otherwise you will be putting your cat in danger.

My vet suggested this and I'm so glad I tried it my cat loves it and so does my non diabetic it seems to be helping stabilize his sugar

I don't know what Blue cat food your mom fed the cat but for example, Blue Buffalo indoors formula has 3 different grains in the main 5 ingredients and that could be a cause for the cat being overweight and also diabetic.

Not only does she love it, but my other 3 dogs that are not diabetic (and the cat) also love it... so much so that they have all snubbed their regular food!

It has been shown that cortisone administration — per se — does not create diabetics, but it will unmask diabetes earlier in the diabetes prone cat.

A non-diabetic cat can very safely handle the «tough love» 12 - 18 hours period of time without food that is often necessary to get them to change their diet but this does not apply to a diabetic patient.

I understand that my cat may very well need a lower dose of insulin — or may not need insulin at all — once I stop pouring gasoline (carbs) onto his diabetic fire, but how do I know what dosage of insulin to give?

Also, high fiber diets run counter to a cat's natural diet and research has shown that high fiber diets do not favorably impact a diabetic cat like that observed in a diabetic dog or human.

Diabetes is one of the most common feline endocrine diseases and, while we do not know all of the causes of this complex disease, we do know that many diabetic cats cease needing insulin or have their insulin needs significantly decrease once their dietary carbohydrate level is lowered to a more species - appropriate level than that found in many commercial foods — especially dry kibble.

I had to get into it because one of my cats turned diabetic and I didn't want to have to buy expensive diabetic food for him when I had heard they can do «fine» on commercial food, if you get the right stuff.

But cyclosporine might be the better choice in overweight cats, diabetic cats, cats that have been diagnosed with heart disease and cats that just did not respond adequately to prednisolone or another corticosteroid.