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Just to add we have a friend who is a vet who did regular home visits for free for my mums cat who was diabetic, all my family know how to do the injections and if he is diagnosed we have a years worth of insurnace before it is classed as pre existing, I'm lucky to have help around me and couldnt im...

We need a post like button on this forum, Ruth, excellent post. The reason I was in such a state about my Molly being as overweight as she got was because of the health conditions she was at increased risk of that we would not be able to treat - diabetes, heart problems and hyperthyroidism. Luckily...

It did end up rather a longer post than intended, but it is a major decision to make and the more informed you are about it the better you can make it. I have heard of cats going into remission after being diagnosed with diabetes and I do think it is probably due to a change in diet as much as anyt...

My parents had a diabetic cat who lived to over 16 years, I can't quite remember when she was diagnosed diabetic, but she was certainly on insulin for many years. There is special diabetic cat food available, but a it only seems to come in very limited flavours most cats tend to go off it very quic...

booktigger wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:46 pm Depending on his test results, you might find changing their dry food beneficial, Go Cat is very low quality. It is better for males to have more wet food than dry.

Dry food is going, scared after reading up about it! Thanks for the reply!

No experience with diabetes but Butchers tins are grain free, reasonable quality and a fair price. Unfortunately due to the nature of dry it will always have higher than ideal carbs so grain in grain free is usually replaced with potato, still carb. That said you might want to look deeper because c...

Hello, I have 3 cats (2yrs, 6yrs & 8yrs), one of which is being tested for diabetes (8yrs) , hes been poorly recently but is on the mend. I feed my cats a little dry food (go cat) in the morning, a little dry food after 4 and one wet pouch each at night (felix). I've seen studies that show that ...