New diabetic foster - looking good so far

[Melanie and Smokey]

We picked up Cecil on Friday from the shelter. He has been there since mid January while they have tried to get him regulated. He was looking pretty tough a couple weeks ago and wasn't eating. The shelter made some changes to his food and ordered Lantus to get him switched from Vetsulin. They had also ordered a meter to test him more. He'd started to gain weight and was looking better, but Lantus on a shelter schedule is tough and even the best shelters have shelter stress, so we said we'd foster.

The only changes we've done is bring him home, stop feeding him the dry food (they were feeding wet and dry Core), and give him more meals in a day. I hadn't intended to make any changes in his diet until we got an idea of what his numbers were, but I only feed him wet the night we brought him home and when I noticed a 100pt drop in preshot #s I decided to keep him off of the dry food to test it. Saturday he bounced a little. Today never over 200 :smile: I hadn't plan on testing him quite this much so soon, his poor little ears need to adjust, but not knowing how he'd run out these lower numbers he has been getting tested a lot today.

Cecil's chart demonstrates what can happens when you remove dry food and stress from their lives. He is such a sweet young boy, hopefully we are dancing our way to remission with him so he can go one to finding his forever home soon. He is only 2 years old.

 

[Lisa and Witn (GA)]

That is great news. Cecil is going to thrive now that he is with you.

Are you sure you do not want to become another foster failure and keep him???? :mrgreen:

 

[BJM]

Looking pretty good in that pic!

 

[Melanie and Smokey]

Hehe, nooo Lisa. We are currently in the process of adopting our previous two fosters we have had for 9 months and that will put us at 6 cats. We've already told Mittens that he can't keep a diabetic buddy as he likes to keep fosters. We love the extra sweet cats, but don't have the work schedules during the winter to go well with shot scheduling. We will help them and then send them on their way :razz:

He bounced pretty good this morning. Seemed like he bounced a bit on Sat and came right back down so hopefully he does the same today. But too much so I can sleep tonight

 

[Hillary & Maui (GA)]

He's cute. Well maybe, just maybe you can break him. So when he does find his purrmanent home, you can give them a broken kitty! Of course they may not pay full price for a broken one..... ;-)

 

[Laura & Heffernan]

Handsome boy! I always share my fosters on social network sites and my last one was adopted by a friend I didn't even know was looking for a cat! He hit the jackpot with his new family. My weekness is orange tabbies....my current foster is a orange boy who is super timid and shy but a family came and met him last night and are adopting him Sunday!

From another foster mom, thank you for fostering. We both know how important it is to making a shelter run and more importantly, we save lives!