How does eating a mouse affect a diabetic cat?

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My diabetic cat was doing so well that he caught a mouse and brought it to me. My first instinct was to take it away from him, but I didn't want to discourage him from hunting. Two days later he was vomiting, wouldn't eat, etc. I used medicine from the vet to stop the vomiting, gave him subcutaneous fluids, and forcefed him. He died exactly one week after eating the mouse. Now I'm obsessing that I should have taken the mouse away from him. Could the mouse be what killed him? I know that I can't do anything to bring him back, but it driving me nuts wondering about it.
 
I am so sorry that your kitty died. It seems to me that you did everything you could to try to save him. I don't have any expertise on mice other than cats have been eating them for centuries.

I hope it will help if you can remember all the time and energy and love you gave your kitty, and how much you cared. What kitty could ask for more?
 
Some people use frozen mice as part of raw food diets.Unless the mouse was diseased or ate some kind of toxin, I don't think it would have caused those symptoms.In any case there was no way you could know if the mouse had any toxins or disease.

Sorry to hear about your cat.it is natural when we lose someone, person or animal to look back and try to figure out what we might have done wrong. It was probably your kitty's time to go ahead.
 
First let me say I'm sorry for your loss. When Yoshi was alive, he loved to hang out for periods of time in the garage (he was indoor only) and catch mice when they showed up. He did that for years before the FD diagnosis. Until he got insulin and started feeling better, I didn't let him in the garage to hunt. When I finally started hometesting, it was about the same time he was allowed back into the garage and got a mouse. It was only about the second hometest, but the results were in normal range and I wondered if the mouse didn't have something to do with that. He went into remission. When I lost him to intestinel cancer a year later, I worried that maybe I shouldn't have been letting him eat mice in the garage as maybe that led to his cancer. One just never knows and we can only do our best for them. Perhaps the mouse your kitty ate was ill or had eaten some poison. Or maybe that had nothing to do with it. I'm just sorry your kitty is gone.
 
Hi, I agree I do not think that the mouse resulted in the loss of life. I really don't.
Baby Cakes catches mice outside & brings them to me, but I quickly catch them & let them loose outside - I do not allow her to eat/stalk/kill, but I do allow her to hunt them & then I step in.

Anyway.. must have been a coincidence.
 
I'm so sorry about your loss. It is always heartbreaking to lose a loved one.

Generally speaking, a diet of mice should be perfect for all cats - and especially diabetics.

However if the mouse had just eaten a bunch of poison, then your cat ate the poisoned mouse - it would poison the cat.

So the painful lesson to share here -- if you don't know if your neighbors might have put out rodent poison, be safe and take away any prey.
 
I would have thought that if the mouse contained poison it would have shown up a LOT quicker than the two day delay. Our diabetic cat caught and ate mice all the time - so please don't torture yourself over that. Mice are low carb, it wouldn't have caused a problem. It could have been anything - at least your cat was happy hunting and living an indoor/outdoor life.

That said, I am very sorry for your loss.
 
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