Author Topic: What is your pet doing right now?*  (Read 213792 times)

hellymedic

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2050 on: 24 April, 2024, 12:25:01 pm »
LUXURY!
I don’t think Blackie peed in the 48 hours of her February admission...

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2051 on: 24 April, 2024, 02:09:18 pm »
Come on Dumpy!
You know it makes sense

rogerzilla

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2052 on: 24 April, 2024, 03:57:51 pm »
Finally got about a gallon of wee.  Zero ketones, very high glucose.  That's ideal for a cat on Senvelgo (it reduces blood glucose by eliminating excess through the kidneys, giving the insulin response a chance to recover).

We know he is making insulin because, if fed enough, he maintains or gains weight.  Plus he looks very healthy.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

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« Reply #2053 on: 24 April, 2024, 07:41:20 pm »
Phew - Relief all round

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2054 on: 24 April, 2024, 07:53:25 pm »
That stuff looks quite new, bloody expensive too by the looks of it (compared to insulin)
Do not clench. It only makes it worse.

rogerzilla

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2055 on: 24 April, 2024, 09:51:31 pm »
Dose, and therefore cost, depends on cat weight.  A bottle will last Dumps over 100 days as the stuff keeps for months.  Fewer vet visits are needed because there is no risk of hypoglycaemia, so it sort of evens out.

It was only approved last year and can only be given to "happy diabetic" cats that are insulin-resistant but not insulin-deficient (i.e. Type 2 diabetes), have no ketones in their urine, and have never had insulin therapy. There are human equivalents, which are also newish.
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rogerzilla

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2056 on: 27 April, 2024, 04:39:02 pm »
Just tested him again and he's still negative for ketones.  Mind you, he's still very hungry and drinking quite a lot, so it hasn't had much impact on the diabetes yet.  Thankfully, he seems to have escaped the most common side-effect in the first two weeks - diarrhoea  :hand:
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

rogerzilla

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2057 on: Yesterday at 09:48:58 am »
Blood sugar is 8.3 today, which is in the normal non-diabetic range  :thumbsup:
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2058 on: Yesterday at 04:40:38 pm »
Blood sugar is 8.3 today, which is in the normal non-diabetic range  :thumbsup:


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hellymedic

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #2059 on: Yesterday at 05:27:57 pm »
I’d get sniffy about a blood sugar above 7 so I hope it’s the cat...

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« Reply #2060 on: Today at 02:35:43 pm »
Returning from a short ride, Zeppy the cat ran across the road in front of me carrying a rabbit and jumped over the wall into the garden.
By the time I got into the house, the rabbbit was headless in the utility room.
Delivered a short lecture about "Why don't you catch some of the rabbits living in the garden?"
TBF, she did catch 3 yesterday, and a rabbit and a rat the day before....