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My cousin has a cat that developed diabetes three years ago. She has been

giving the cat insulin injects every morning. On Monday the cat had a seizure

and my cousin brought it to the Vet. The Vet said the cat's diabetes was in

remission and the seizure was caused by the insulin injection.

One more reason to come back as a cat. You get nine lives, have someone to

wait on you hand and foot (make that paw) and you get to sleep as 18 hours a

day. <g>

Ed from CT

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My cousin has a cat that developed diabetes three years ago. She has been

giving the cat insulin injects every morning. On Monday the cat had a seizure

and my cousin brought it to the Vet. The Vet said the cat's diabetes was in

remission and the seizure was caused by the insulin injection.

One more reason to come back as a cat. You get nine lives, have someone to

wait on you hand and foot (make that paw) and you get to sleep as 18 hours a

day. <g>

Ed from CT

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My cousin has a cat that developed diabetes three years ago. She has been

giving the cat insulin injects every morning. On Monday the cat had a seizure

and my cousin brought it to the Vet. The Vet said the cat's diabetes was in

remission and the seizure was caused by the insulin injection.

One more reason to come back as a cat. You get nine lives, have someone to

wait on you hand and foot (make that paw) and you get to sleep as 18 hours a

day. <g>

Ed from CT

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<< My cousin has a cat that developed diabetes three years ago. She has been

giving the cat insulin injects every morning. >>

Hi Ed,

My cat has diabetes too. She has had it for two years and we give her shots

twice a day. She would be dead by now if we didn't check her blood with the

glucometer as she hypos often. Glad your cousin's cat is in

remission...that's great! :)

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<< My cousin has a cat that developed diabetes three years ago. She has been

giving the cat insulin injects every morning. >>

Hi Ed,

My cat has diabetes too. She has had it for two years and we give her shots

twice a day. She would be dead by now if we didn't check her blood with the

glucometer as she hypos often. Glad your cousin's cat is in

remission...that's great! :)

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Sharon, I did a Google search under " cats AND diabetes " and found the

following links that might be useful:

web.vet.cornell.edu/Public/FHC/diabetes.html - Cornell University Feline

Health Center

www.petdiabetes.org - Home page for " Pets With Diabetes "

www.vetinfo.com - " Dr. Mike " answers questions submitted by cat owners. You

can read the answers for free, but you have to subscribe if you want to ask a

question.

Ed from CT

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, I have a question about diabetic cats. My cat, Beavis, is fairly

overweight (once, some neighbor kids taunted him saying he was the fattest

cat in the world - poor little guy, fortunately he only understands english

when I speak it) and like me, he carries most of his weight around his

abdomen. He looks like a triangle, with a small head and body that gets

bigger and bigger as it goes down. Anyway, my question is, are cats like

humans in that the way weight is distributed may be an indicator of

diabetes? I've been thinking about this a lot lately, because I don't want

my Beavie to share the same fate as me.

I asked my CDE about this, but I'm sure it was the first time she'd ever

been asked that and didn't know the answer. The vet just says put him on a

diet and he'll avoid the disease (of course, giving me this accusatory look

like my fat self is overfeeding him because I certainly must have a problem

with food control).

Do you, or anyone reading this, know anything about weight distribution in

cats? Is your cat like this?

Sharon Olsen

Research Associate

Lexecon Inc

*I would have made this instrumental but the words got in the way*

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, from your description he's probably at least insulin resistant. I'd

speak to the vet, switch to a lower glycemic cat food (Iams weight loss,

turq. bag), watch for excessive thirst, frequent urination and feed him way

less. If he loses the excess weight, he may not develop diabetes.

Barb

< Anyway, my question is, are cats like

> humans in that the way weight is distributed may be an indicator of

> diabetes? I've been thinking about this a lot lately, because I don't

want

> my Beavie to share the same fate as me.

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Thanks a lot Ed! I couldn't find any info about weight distribution on

those sites, but I'm debating paying the fee to ask Dr. Mike the question.

I'm going to do a little more research first. Thanks, I really appreciate

you taking the time to do that for me!

Sharon Olsen

Research Associate

Lexecon Inc

*I would have made this instrumental but the words got in the way*

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Re: Re: Cats & Diabetes

<< One more reason to come back as a cat. You get nine lives, have someone

to

wait on you hand and foot (make that paw) and you get to sleep as 18 hours a

day. <g> >>

I used to have a theory that cats we gods and that they created us to

serve them. Lets see, we feed them. We give them water. When they're sick we

pay money to get them taken care of. We cater to their wishes. And, we even

take care of their poop. Yeah,. man is the superior animal alright.

More seriously, my mother had a cat that developped diabetes. She

managed to live a fair number of years with it, almost ten, until she passed

away due to complications brought on by age and diabetes.

Marc

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