There is glucose in his urine. He's diabetic, a juvinile diabetic kitten. It's congenital, the vet thinks.
I am debating his fate. I am angry and sad at the same time, because I know I should have him euthanized. And this is soley because I cannot afford to keep a diabetic kitten here nor does he have any chance of finding a home.
Seems so wrong to kill him over the cost of caring for him. Just the diagnostics on him today are going to break me.
I am angry at the assholes in Albany who abandon cats like so much trash on a daily basis, without any regard or respect for life. I am angry at the celebrated illiteracy, apathy and the selfishness that propels people to get pets on a whim, then let them have kittens, then abandon them.
I am angry I care, actually, about this sweet little boy and want to save his life.
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I have an adult diabetic cat. She was on glipizide (oral medication) and what my vet calls the "catkins" diet - high protein / low carbs. No dry food, canned only.
ReplyDeletePurina Proplan kitten food chicken & liver is goodbut costs about 75 cents / small can. There are a couple of Fancy Feast - turkey & giblets with olive green label and beef feast with brown label - that do not list corn gluten or wheat gluten on label. My local Wal-mart sells FF for 48 cents / can and currently there's a 'stuck to can' coupon good for $1 off 18 cans. I stocked up on coupon cans as the coupon is good through December 2010.
My cat is doing so well that just over a year on and she's now stabilized with diet only, no need for medication.
Cats are Type II diabetics, much easier to treat than dogs.
Good luck with the kitten.
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This is a kitten and has type 1 diabetes, if anything. This is NOT adult onset type 2 diabetes primarily caused by diet. I have no way to seperate him and his food from other the 33 other cats here. I just paid $250 for his diagnostics alone, which was stupid, because I didn't have it.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to Cornell University article about diabetes in kittens: http://www.ehow.com/about_4794498_feline-diabetes-kittens.html
ReplyDeleteReads as if it could be either type I or type II diabetes.
I was reading about it, too - that explains the wobbly rear legs and walking...symptomatic of type 1 diabetes in cats. Poor toby! Poor you! that sucks for real - oh course you care - you had him, then he was in foster care, then back, then adopted, then back = you've been thru a lot with this little guy. I feel attached to him simply from naming him.
ReplyDeletewhat, if anything, is being done now? Just waiting to make a decision? Or has he been started on insulin or anything?
No, he isn't. He is supposed to go back to be tested again Wednesday, then an all day once an hour test. I don't have the money for all this, or the energy. He came back here, on the chance I can find him somewhere to go, someone who will take on such a cat. If I can't find him someone, then he is going to have to be euthanized, unfortunately.
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