Amy & Scrappy Doo
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Hi All,
My husband & I have been caring for a previously abandoned/feral cat we named Scrappy Doo, for the last several months and he was now diagnosed with diabetes. We have not started insulin yet, but will be in the next day or so and it will be Lantus. We have successfully (thanks to reading the posts on this site) home tested Scrappy yesterday & today...Scrappy did great..thank God! Would love any & all help on the following, since we are very frustrated with our Vet (very long story there):
Recommended Schedule on home testing & what numbers we should see. And what dosage should we use? Yesterday a couple of hours after dinner was 423 and tonight before dinner and about 4 hours after lunch was 350.
{We feed him a can Friskies for Breakfast & one for Dinner and small can IAMS at lunch. Sometimes Scrappy gets chicken, beef, tuna, etc in lieu of the canned food. He is now only eating wet food to reduce the carbs...was hoping since we made him an indoor cat & originally also fed him dry food, we could possibly "fix" things by removing the dry food.}
Any pointers for treating Scrappy and balancing two young children (ages 2 1/2 & 14 moths).
Tips on how to do this alone, when my husband is working.
We thank you in advance for helping us through this,
Amy, Rob & Scrappy Doo
My husband & I have been caring for a previously abandoned/feral cat we named Scrappy Doo, for the last several months and he was now diagnosed with diabetes. We have not started insulin yet, but will be in the next day or so and it will be Lantus. We have successfully (thanks to reading the posts on this site) home tested Scrappy yesterday & today...Scrappy did great..thank God! Would love any & all help on the following, since we are very frustrated with our Vet (very long story there):
Recommended Schedule on home testing & what numbers we should see. And what dosage should we use? Yesterday a couple of hours after dinner was 423 and tonight before dinner and about 4 hours after lunch was 350.
{We feed him a can Friskies for Breakfast & one for Dinner and small can IAMS at lunch. Sometimes Scrappy gets chicken, beef, tuna, etc in lieu of the canned food. He is now only eating wet food to reduce the carbs...was hoping since we made him an indoor cat & originally also fed him dry food, we could possibly "fix" things by removing the dry food.}
Any pointers for treating Scrappy and balancing two young children (ages 2 1/2 & 14 moths).
Tips on how to do this alone, when my husband is working.
We thank you in advance for helping us through this,
Amy, Rob & Scrappy Doo