lovetheduns
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Hello there
My name is Christina and my cat in question is Little Boy or DoDo as I call him.
DoDo is an 8 year old DSH. I actually have his entire litter and mama. My cats are fed on a raw diet.
This past Saturday, I did not realize this but my mom allowed DoDo to eat a hushpuppy corn thing and 5 small french fries (egads-- I grind chicken or buy ground turky dutifully and he apparently inhalled those bad things). On Saturday night after he ate his raw food, he threw up sometime Sunday morning under my mother's bed. Sunday morning he refused to eat breakfast at all.
I took him to the ER vet who thought he could have just had an adverse reaction and a little bit of garbage gut. He seemed to have some infection going on so she did some subq fluids, gave him an anti nauseua med (Cerenia) and liquid Clavamox. DoDo wouldnt eat Sunday night nor Monday morning. She was concerned that while some of his WBC was higher-- his Bands but Lymphocytes were lower. Other values were normal except for the blood was very lipemic (9.1 on their scale).
I took him to my regular vet who noticed he was running a 104 fever, his Blood sugar was 342 both ear test and confirmed by a lab test. He did not have any ketones in the dipstick test. They gave him more fluids and kept him for the day to ensure they could get more urine for a UA exam.
He had no ketones in the urine Analysis from the lab, his PH urine was good at 6.3 and 3+ sugars I believe in the urine. His bloodwork from the panel at the lab showed 374 glucose. The new blood test also showed his test results were lipemic. And his fructosamine came back at 480.
My vet is diagnosing him as diabetic since she has confirmation from the fructosamine that he has been consistently above the threshold. I am freaking out that this could be genetic and I have his brothers, sister, and mother also in the same boat.
Everything else was okay, liver panels, kidneys.
I am headed to the vet at 5:00pm to start discussing what we do from here, but I dont know what we can really do since I can't even get my little fellow to eat. I have to jam it all down his throat in a syringe. He doesnt puke it, but he wont willingly eat it. I have been trying Hills A/D, Baby food, cottage cheese, anything.
I am a little nervous about all of this. I travel some for work and my mom is god awful at giving any kind of medication to a cat.
My name is Christina and my cat in question is Little Boy or DoDo as I call him.
DoDo is an 8 year old DSH. I actually have his entire litter and mama. My cats are fed on a raw diet.
This past Saturday, I did not realize this but my mom allowed DoDo to eat a hushpuppy corn thing and 5 small french fries (egads-- I grind chicken or buy ground turky dutifully and he apparently inhalled those bad things). On Saturday night after he ate his raw food, he threw up sometime Sunday morning under my mother's bed. Sunday morning he refused to eat breakfast at all.
I took him to the ER vet who thought he could have just had an adverse reaction and a little bit of garbage gut. He seemed to have some infection going on so she did some subq fluids, gave him an anti nauseua med (Cerenia) and liquid Clavamox. DoDo wouldnt eat Sunday night nor Monday morning. She was concerned that while some of his WBC was higher-- his Bands but Lymphocytes were lower. Other values were normal except for the blood was very lipemic (9.1 on their scale).
I took him to my regular vet who noticed he was running a 104 fever, his Blood sugar was 342 both ear test and confirmed by a lab test. He did not have any ketones in the dipstick test. They gave him more fluids and kept him for the day to ensure they could get more urine for a UA exam.
He had no ketones in the urine Analysis from the lab, his PH urine was good at 6.3 and 3+ sugars I believe in the urine. His bloodwork from the panel at the lab showed 374 glucose. The new blood test also showed his test results were lipemic. And his fructosamine came back at 480.
My vet is diagnosing him as diabetic since she has confirmation from the fructosamine that he has been consistently above the threshold. I am freaking out that this could be genetic and I have his brothers, sister, and mother also in the same boat.
Everything else was okay, liver panels, kidneys.
I am headed to the vet at 5:00pm to start discussing what we do from here, but I dont know what we can really do since I can't even get my little fellow to eat. I have to jam it all down his throat in a syringe. He doesnt puke it, but he wont willingly eat it. I have been trying Hills A/D, Baby food, cottage cheese, anything.
I am a little nervous about all of this. I travel some for work and my mom is god awful at giving any kind of medication to a cat.
