Insulin costs for a cat?
Discussion
DKL said:
Mobile Chicane said:
Hate to say it, but you'll be having to manhandle your cat and give her injections every day (something which she's going to love). Would it be kinder to just say goodbye?
Would you say that if I said my child was diabetic? Thought not so there's your answer.
(apart from you actually 
)ali_kat said:
Mobile Chicane said:
DKL said:
Mobile Chicane said:
Hate to say it, but you'll be having to manhandle your cat and give her injections every day (something which she's going to love). Would it be kinder to just say goodbye?
Would you say that if I said my child was diabetic? Thought not so there's your answer.Obviously you've made your decision and are happy with it, but if I had to do the same I'd say goodbye.
I don't want my cat to be afraid of me because he knows that I'm sneaking up on him with a needle. I don't want to subject him to the stress of vet visits which he hates.
My views may make me unpopular on here (like I care), but I have to wonder whether modern veterinary interventions such as this are for the owner's benefit and not that of the animal.
In my view, the animal's needs should be paramount.
you know NOTHING The very moment Bob gets sick you'll be at the Vet, begging for their modern veterinary interventions to help him, that or you really are the cold hearted, unfeeling person you show yourself up to be
We use animals to test drugs are suitable for humans, so why shouldn't we use those same drugs to help them live long & happy lives?
Or should we stop developing drugs & as it's not just pets that are stressed & scared by the needle! Are life prolonging drugs for the benefit of the person concerned or for their loved ones?
Best say nothing and be thought a fool, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Swervin_Mervin said:
Interesting those that are feeding their cats the prescribed diabetic dry food.
There's plenty of reading out there about dry food laden with carbs and its relationship to diabetes in cats.
Or indeed any cat food laden with carbs. Which most are.There's plenty of reading out there about dry food laden with carbs and its relationship to diabetes in cats.
Feed what nature intended cats to eat - meat - and think of this as an 'insurance policy' against the future.
Cats are obligate carnivores, and are not evolved to metabolise the carbohydrate 'fillers' most commercial cat foods are mostly composed of.
However, if you live in the country and are a half-decent shot, you're laughing. Here's Bob eagerly anticipating his dinner of wood pigeon:
Mobile Chicane said:
Ali,
Best say nothing and be thought a fool, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Best say nothing and be thought a fool, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Re-read the comments to you in the whole of this thread... then take your own advice.
ETA - and stop using my name like we are mates, you've been following me around b
hing at me long enough now for me to get the hint (not that I wanted/needed it!) 
Edited by ali_kat on Friday 12th December 10:18
Well it all went horribly wrong.
It turns out the diabetes may have been secondary. I took her in to be checked on Monday and her breathing was a bit odd. Vet wanted her up to our referral centre asap and they looked and scanned and found chronic heart failure, a slightly enlarged pancreas and worst of all malignant cells in fluid drained from her chest. A CT scan today revealed a large mass which we were told was inoperable and not treatable with chemo.
She wasn't going to last much longer on her own so I had to make that very awful choice. She went under sedation from the scan
We are absolutely devastated and it won't be a great Christmas now, we love that little girl
My beautiful Cadbury cat.
It turns out the diabetes may have been secondary. I took her in to be checked on Monday and her breathing was a bit odd. Vet wanted her up to our referral centre asap and they looked and scanned and found chronic heart failure, a slightly enlarged pancreas and worst of all malignant cells in fluid drained from her chest. A CT scan today revealed a large mass which we were told was inoperable and not treatable with chemo.
She wasn't going to last much longer on her own so I had to make that very awful choice. She went under sedation from the scan
We are absolutely devastated and it won't be a great Christmas now, we love that little girl
My beautiful Cadbury cat.
Edited by DKL on Thursday 18th December 18:25
ali_kat said:
How are you doing today?
Honestly, not great. Last night was grim.The rational part of me knows there was nothing else to be done but it doesn't help. I really thought we'd get a bit longer and a chance to help. She looked so normal ( a bit thin) when we saw her on wednesday but she'd had her chest drained just before. That's not exactly something we could do at home.
She'd been through so much in her 14 yrs we thought she was indestructable - brain surgery, missing for 6 weeks without her meds, I thought she was owed a nice few twilight years. To get cancer again is just a b
h.She was just one of those special ones.
We have 3 more at home that need us to look after them and a 6mth old boy looking forward to his first Christmas so we must look at the upsides.
Anyway I really appreciate your thoughts and kind words.
David
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