DOTTIE HAS DIABETES

My Willie kitty had diabetes and he lived to be 18. You do have to be vigilant in monitoring water consumption, peeing and eating but it honestly isn’t that difficult. Willie never minded his injections at all. He was the most special kitty!

(((JK and Dottie))) She’ll be just fine, JK.

Lady Coco and Sophie D. send head bonks and purrs of encouragement.

JK, I would tend to favor a holistic approach too, although I’m not informed about feline diabetes. I do believe cats are generally fed too much processed grains, which may play a role in diabetes onset. Cats in the wild do not eat grains–they are obligate carnivores. My guess is that a major cause of human diabetes is overconsumption of sugar and processed carbs. The latter may also be linked to feline diabetes–that would be my conjecture.

I tried raw feeding my cats but was not successful with it. I now have them on mostly Wellness Grain Free, canned, with some of the new Purina Naturals dry food. I’m trying to keep dried food at most 15-20% of their diet. I still believe raw food is the healthiest for cats, but it is not an easy process. Bottom line: cats, like humans, have to LIKE eating the stuff. ‘Healthy’ food that is uneaten helps no cat. And my cats don’t like raw, and I don’t have any more time to futz around with it.

Please, Jeankit, treat her with insulin. She has already lost about a third of her body weight. She is basically starving; her cells cannot use the glucose without insulin. INSULIN WORKS! When she stabilizes and starts gaining some weight, then you can start changing her diet.

I know that I am stepping on many toes here, but there is no evidence to show that any of these “holistic” or “alternative” treatments do anything. And I cannot refrain from saying so if I think you are risking your cat’s well-being. The one peer-reviewed paper that that website cites deals with insulin receptors and cultured fat cells; it is a bit of a stretch to extend that to the living cat organism.

KC makes a good point. I think you said she’s down from 7 to 4 pounds? If so that is an alarming weight loss, about 40%. That’s the % that Cloud had lost when diagnosed with CRF. Isn’t it amazing how cats can conceal weight loss? I would listen carefully to what your vet advises.

JK, wishing you success with controlling Dot’s diabetes! {{{{{HUGS}}}}} going out to you both!

wish your cat dot the best of luck.