Penny has had two insulin shots thus far, one last night and the other this morning. I was worried about her because she did not eat breakfast yesterday. At the vet’s, though, they said if she ate about half of it, it would be enough to give her the shot. She’d eaten half by evening, so I gave her the shot and fresh food, which was gone by this morning.
Pen’s getting 1 unit of insulin twice a day. The shot is so quick to administer that she doesn’t have time to complain about the needle going in before it’s come back out again! This morning, I didn’t even bother restraining her. I just let her sit on the kitchen chair from which she was watching the prep of her shot and her breakfast.
I already had the honey on hand to deal with low blood sugar. The vet told me to use corn syrup if she seemed lethargic. He didn’t specify dark or light, though, and the light stuff had vanilla in it. I wasn’t sure if that would harm Penny until I remembered Emma’s giving Rotley vanilla bean ice cream after his sub-Q infusions. Then I knew it would be okay.