Hello,
I cannot tell you all the help this weath of information is to me and my poor sugarcat, Lee. We are a multi cat household and he is my old man at 15. I have had him since he was a bottle baby abandoned by his mother when she moved her litter. He had always been a good boy but the past few years have been tough for him.. We moved from Orlando, FL to Oklahoma 4 years ago and then to a permanent home a year after that. He seemed to take to everything so well that when he started going outside of the litter box we thought perhaps a UTI. The vet did not seem to find anything but treated him with an antibiotic. He seemed to get better for a while but then he was back at it. We thought he just did not like to go where every one else was going, even though I keep the box super clean. I tried different litters,everything wecould think of to halt the behavior and I hate to say it, but in my frustration, we punished. There are only so many times you can clean up the floor at 5AM after stepping in a puddle in your jammies before you lose it. So we banished him to the porch. But OK is too hot for a poor old thing to be out when it is 114 degrees. So we crated him in a huge dog crate during the day, complete with water, litter box etc. Doing this Might have saved his life. I took note of the amounts he was drinking and peeing and the little light bulb went off. We bundled him up ASAP and whisked him to the vet.
His sugar was over 500, no telling for how long. Now that I know so much I can see the tell tale signs and know that the puddles were his way of saying "Look mom!! I have a problem! Do something!" He is still happy and perky and bright eyed so Diabetes was the last thing I could imagine. He has been taking everything since like a champ and loving the extra attention he is getting. Rebecca has been a big help and the more I learn and the less helpless to do something I feel, the better off we both will be. His sugar is still too high, we tested at the vet Saturday and it was 520 still but we had just found you and I read the stuff about the Purina DM dry and I immediately went and got him the canned. So the next check I hope the results will be better.
I cannot tell you all the help this weath of information is to me and my poor sugarcat, Lee. We are a multi cat household and he is my old man at 15. I have had him since he was a bottle baby abandoned by his mother when she moved her litter. He had always been a good boy but the past few years have been tough for him.. We moved from Orlando, FL to Oklahoma 4 years ago and then to a permanent home a year after that. He seemed to take to everything so well that when he started going outside of the litter box we thought perhaps a UTI. The vet did not seem to find anything but treated him with an antibiotic. He seemed to get better for a while but then he was back at it. We thought he just did not like to go where every one else was going, even though I keep the box super clean. I tried different litters,everything wecould think of to halt the behavior and I hate to say it, but in my frustration, we punished. There are only so many times you can clean up the floor at 5AM after stepping in a puddle in your jammies before you lose it. So we banished him to the porch. But OK is too hot for a poor old thing to be out when it is 114 degrees. So we crated him in a huge dog crate during the day, complete with water, litter box etc. Doing this Might have saved his life. I took note of the amounts he was drinking and peeing and the little light bulb went off. We bundled him up ASAP and whisked him to the vet.
His sugar was over 500, no telling for how long. Now that I know so much I can see the tell tale signs and know that the puddles were his way of saying "Look mom!! I have a problem! Do something!" He is still happy and perky and bright eyed so Diabetes was the last thing I could imagine. He has been taking everything since like a champ and loving the extra attention he is getting. Rebecca has been a big help and the more I learn and the less helpless to do something I feel, the better off we both will be. His sugar is still too high, we tested at the vet Saturday and it was 520 still but we had just found you and I read the stuff about the Purina DM dry and I immediately went and got him the canned. So the next check I hope the results will be better.
