DustBunnyMomma
Member Since 2016
My name is Christie and I just found out this morning that my 3 year old kitty, Dust Bunny is diabetic.
I first found her on the side of the road living in an old Pepsi machine. She was very tiny and after about of week of having her I noticed her limping and when I looked closer her front paw was completely twisted around. I took her to the vet and they looked at it and said there wasn't anything they could do about it and since she didn't seem to be in any pain that there was not really a point to. I visited 6 different vets over the course of 3-4 months about her paw and a sensitivity to touch on her hind quarters. All of them refused my request for an x-ray and simply said its just a temperament. I gave up. Living in a small community meant that I had seen every vet in town and even in the next town. When I found Lucky, my now 3 legged cat, she had to have the rest of her leg amputated after about a 6 months and so the long search for a decently priced amputation and decent vet started. Because of that I found a WONDERFUL vet who even let me do payments for the surgery. During the pre surgery appointment she asked about my other pets and I brought up Dust Bunny and everything we had gone through so far and she said she wanted to see her and do some X-rays. She had me bring her the next day and we found out that she has arthritis in her front paw and in her pelvis where it had been broken. Since she actually seemed to care and actually listen to my concerns I decided to not hunt up another vet when Dust Bunny started losing weight and urinating more. I made an appointment and the week before was horrible. Dust Bunny stopped cleaning herself and slept all the time and started peeing outside the litter box. I noticed that her pee didn't smell like cat pee anymore and I was really worried. Today we finally went in for our appointment and they did some blood work and found out about the diabetes. They gave me ProZinc and she gets 2u twice a day. They were also worried that the Keytones may have given her an UTI so they gave us an antibiotic for twice a day as well. We are due back in two weeks for a glucose curve and to check her liver numbers, the vet said they were off for a cat with diabetes. So now I'm here looking for info on where to buy a monitor for both keytones and blood sugar and also for possible cat food solutions. I can't afford the diabetic food they had at the vet for 3 cats and with how my cats eat separating them would be a very drawn out task. My mom mentioned doing like home made cat food, which I'm ok with. I'm still really shaken about all of this. I really look at my cats like they are my other kids.
Also she is the type of kitty that likes to hide... ALOT. Shes always been like this and I have tried to bring her out of it but she just doesn't like being in the open for a long time. I even had an apartment with no furniture at one point and she opened the kitchen cabinets to hide inside them. Because of this its hard to monitor her. Any suggestions?
I first found her on the side of the road living in an old Pepsi machine. She was very tiny and after about of week of having her I noticed her limping and when I looked closer her front paw was completely twisted around. I took her to the vet and they looked at it and said there wasn't anything they could do about it and since she didn't seem to be in any pain that there was not really a point to. I visited 6 different vets over the course of 3-4 months about her paw and a sensitivity to touch on her hind quarters. All of them refused my request for an x-ray and simply said its just a temperament. I gave up. Living in a small community meant that I had seen every vet in town and even in the next town. When I found Lucky, my now 3 legged cat, she had to have the rest of her leg amputated after about a 6 months and so the long search for a decently priced amputation and decent vet started. Because of that I found a WONDERFUL vet who even let me do payments for the surgery. During the pre surgery appointment she asked about my other pets and I brought up Dust Bunny and everything we had gone through so far and she said she wanted to see her and do some X-rays. She had me bring her the next day and we found out that she has arthritis in her front paw and in her pelvis where it had been broken. Since she actually seemed to care and actually listen to my concerns I decided to not hunt up another vet when Dust Bunny started losing weight and urinating more. I made an appointment and the week before was horrible. Dust Bunny stopped cleaning herself and slept all the time and started peeing outside the litter box. I noticed that her pee didn't smell like cat pee anymore and I was really worried. Today we finally went in for our appointment and they did some blood work and found out about the diabetes. They gave me ProZinc and she gets 2u twice a day. They were also worried that the Keytones may have given her an UTI so they gave us an antibiotic for twice a day as well. We are due back in two weeks for a glucose curve and to check her liver numbers, the vet said they were off for a cat with diabetes. So now I'm here looking for info on where to buy a monitor for both keytones and blood sugar and also for possible cat food solutions. I can't afford the diabetic food they had at the vet for 3 cats and with how my cats eat separating them would be a very drawn out task. My mom mentioned doing like home made cat food, which I'm ok with. I'm still really shaken about all of this. I really look at my cats like they are my other kids.
Also she is the type of kitty that likes to hide... ALOT. Shes always been like this and I have tried to bring her out of it but she just doesn't like being in the open for a long time. I even had an apartment with no furniture at one point and she opened the kitchen cabinets to hide inside them. Because of this its hard to monitor her. Any suggestions?
