Funky
Member Since 2012
To start with here is Loco's Profile - https://sites.google.com/site/locodiabetes/
Loco's Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai5D6Zd09iDYdDNYN2VvNHBRNXNHUzEyLXFBaS1oZ2c#gid=0
And a little more about the beautiful kitty -
So our cat Loco has just been diagnosed with diabetes. He is 6 years old. He is the most loving amazing cat ever and i have had quite a few. However there is a very agrresive side to him sometimes. We adopted him at a couple of months old and something bad must have happened him as a kitten. It almost seems as if he is schizophrenic. He will just lose it from nowhere and attack us. The wierd thing is he would never, ever go near your face. Just pounce at your arm or leg or bum. Its very bizarre because his eyes just go really big from nowhere and he starts snorting and then boom. Then after a few seconds his eyes go back to normal and hes all over you purring again looking at you wierd because your not loving him back :shock: But he only ever does it to us, never to visitors or strangers. He is quite the scared cat when people are around. I am just trying to paint a picture of his history here, i hope i havent scared anyone off. Like i said he is actually the most loving cat, he will follows us everywhere around the house. In fact he has a small cat as a teddy that he also brings around to whatever room we are in so it can sleep there too :lol:
He was always an overweight cat which didnt help being indoor. So about a year ago the vet told us to put him on an obesity biccie only diet. I resisted this strongly but stupidly agreed after trying to feed him less. We tried the dry food only diet but he wouldnt eat much at all so would supplement it with treats. I now realise this was a big mistake. We stopped the diet about 6 months ago. About 4 months ago loco started to lose weigtht, a small bit at first but then it became a large amount. He was 9kg, i know huge! But now he is 6kg. He looks unhealthy now as his sides are all hollwed in.
He hates the vets and gets so bad everytime we bring him there. So anyway we brought him to the vet who did tests. They messed up the blood sample for the glucose somehow so we brought in a urine sample. From this they could tell his glucose level was very high. So later that day we brought him in and they did an ear prick and took the level and it was confirmed. He has been put on steroids twice in the past year for an eye infection and i cant remember what the other thing was. I like the vet, they are very friendly there and he has been with them his whole life. But then the vet said he needs to go back on the obesity biccies. I had read a slight amount of info inbetween bringing him to the vet for the blood tests and the results and had seen dry food was not good. I said that to the vet but she dismissed it. I also reminded her on the dry obesity biccie diet he actually put on weight and i thought it was abad idea to switch him back on it but she insisted he needed to lose more weigtht and dry food only was best for a diabetic cat.
Obvisouly i now know better from research. He was diagnosed on the 9th July. He is on caninsilin, at 2ml twice a day. The vet wanted him back in a week after but she gives me a sedative in tablet form for him as he gets too scared and aggresive at the vets. I bought a glucometer nearly two weeks ago and we switched him to a wet food diet while giving him a break from the insulin while he changed. He is always hungry and has always been the same. Before he started to lose the weight he would gobble anything he saw in sight. While he was losing it he got really picky with his food. But since the insulin shots he has become ravenous again. I obviopsuly dont want him hungry but i also dont want him overweight again. How many packets of the wet food should he eat a day? He adores his treat of boiled chicken at dinner time also. The meals he is on at the moment are:
6am - 1/2 Felix 'as good as it looks' 50g
5am - 10am - Small Boiled chicken free feed bowl
1pm - 1 x Felix 'as good as it looks' 100g
6pm - 1/2 Felix 'as good as it looks' 50g
8pm - Small boiled chicken treat
1am - 1 x Felix 'as good as it looks' 100g
I am unsure is this the right amount. Like i said i do not want him to become overweigth again but dont want him hungry either. There is so much to take in and i am so glad for the internet and sites to help with what to do. His bloods seem to have increased since being on the insulin the second time which is odd. I was hoping his blood levels would stabalise more then they have the past week to do a 2 hourly curve. But i will do one this tuesday if this would help in where to go from here. Any advice would be brilliant!
Last but not least heres the loveable rogue himself, with his step brother and sister who unfortunatly now live at their grannies as he didnt love them half as much as he loved his toy cuddly kitten :sad: Also this is back when he was at his top weight!
Loco's Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai5D6Zd09iDYdDNYN2VvNHBRNXNHUzEyLXFBaS1oZ2c#gid=0
And a little more about the beautiful kitty -
So our cat Loco has just been diagnosed with diabetes. He is 6 years old. He is the most loving amazing cat ever and i have had quite a few. However there is a very agrresive side to him sometimes. We adopted him at a couple of months old and something bad must have happened him as a kitten. It almost seems as if he is schizophrenic. He will just lose it from nowhere and attack us. The wierd thing is he would never, ever go near your face. Just pounce at your arm or leg or bum. Its very bizarre because his eyes just go really big from nowhere and he starts snorting and then boom. Then after a few seconds his eyes go back to normal and hes all over you purring again looking at you wierd because your not loving him back :shock: But he only ever does it to us, never to visitors or strangers. He is quite the scared cat when people are around. I am just trying to paint a picture of his history here, i hope i havent scared anyone off. Like i said he is actually the most loving cat, he will follows us everywhere around the house. In fact he has a small cat as a teddy that he also brings around to whatever room we are in so it can sleep there too :lol:
He was always an overweight cat which didnt help being indoor. So about a year ago the vet told us to put him on an obesity biccie only diet. I resisted this strongly but stupidly agreed after trying to feed him less. We tried the dry food only diet but he wouldnt eat much at all so would supplement it with treats. I now realise this was a big mistake. We stopped the diet about 6 months ago. About 4 months ago loco started to lose weigtht, a small bit at first but then it became a large amount. He was 9kg, i know huge! But now he is 6kg. He looks unhealthy now as his sides are all hollwed in.
He hates the vets and gets so bad everytime we bring him there. So anyway we brought him to the vet who did tests. They messed up the blood sample for the glucose somehow so we brought in a urine sample. From this they could tell his glucose level was very high. So later that day we brought him in and they did an ear prick and took the level and it was confirmed. He has been put on steroids twice in the past year for an eye infection and i cant remember what the other thing was. I like the vet, they are very friendly there and he has been with them his whole life. But then the vet said he needs to go back on the obesity biccies. I had read a slight amount of info inbetween bringing him to the vet for the blood tests and the results and had seen dry food was not good. I said that to the vet but she dismissed it. I also reminded her on the dry obesity biccie diet he actually put on weight and i thought it was abad idea to switch him back on it but she insisted he needed to lose more weigtht and dry food only was best for a diabetic cat.
Obvisouly i now know better from research. He was diagnosed on the 9th July. He is on caninsilin, at 2ml twice a day. The vet wanted him back in a week after but she gives me a sedative in tablet form for him as he gets too scared and aggresive at the vets. I bought a glucometer nearly two weeks ago and we switched him to a wet food diet while giving him a break from the insulin while he changed. He is always hungry and has always been the same. Before he started to lose the weight he would gobble anything he saw in sight. While he was losing it he got really picky with his food. But since the insulin shots he has become ravenous again. I obviopsuly dont want him hungry but i also dont want him overweight again. How many packets of the wet food should he eat a day? He adores his treat of boiled chicken at dinner time also. The meals he is on at the moment are:
6am - 1/2 Felix 'as good as it looks' 50g
5am - 10am - Small Boiled chicken free feed bowl
1pm - 1 x Felix 'as good as it looks' 100g
6pm - 1/2 Felix 'as good as it looks' 50g
8pm - Small boiled chicken treat
1am - 1 x Felix 'as good as it looks' 100g
I am unsure is this the right amount. Like i said i do not want him to become overweigth again but dont want him hungry either. There is so much to take in and i am so glad for the internet and sites to help with what to do. His bloods seem to have increased since being on the insulin the second time which is odd. I was hoping his blood levels would stabalise more then they have the past week to do a 2 hourly curve. But i will do one this tuesday if this would help in where to go from here. Any advice would be brilliant!
Last but not least heres the loveable rogue himself, with his step brother and sister who unfortunatly now live at their grannies as he didnt love them half as much as he loved his toy cuddly kitten :sad: Also this is back when he was at his top weight!
The more i look it seems perhaps pzi may be the only other option? Thats brillaint your vet is cooperating! 
