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Hello all, my cat, Billy, has recently been diagnosed with diabetes, and recovered from ketoacidosis (Hospital stay, multiple days.) Its been about two weeks since then and she is doing much better! High protien food (tikki cat wet food) and insulin, ProZinc, twice a day.

I have a ReliOn Micro and micro plus strips I'm using to test her; I've just started today. Her first reading was "134 mg/dl" . From what I've read so far this is good? I'm looking to confirm that.

In addition, she is a rescue and was 9 when we got her. She had come from a hording and abandonment situation. The prior owner became too elderly to continue taking care of her multiple cats, allegedly. However, what was very clear is that she had absolutely had to fight for her food before, as well as probably gone hungry. Because of this, she becomes very anxious if there is not something to munch on available at all times.

She has a few times run around yelling when out of food, then coughs/throws up tiny amount of whitish foam. This only happens when she wants food and there isn't one something out. Could I feed her 3 times a day?

Lastly, since she got back, her poop has been these sort of half puddles half solid stool. Should I be worried?

Thank you for reading this all. Any advice or thoughts on any of these matters is greatly appreciated.

 

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Please make sure that you add to your signature ketoacidosis in the past

You need to test Billy every time before giving insulin ,to be sure her BG is a safe number to shoot , if you're not sure please post for help

You can read about prozinc here , read all the yellow stickys
https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/forums/prozinc-pzi.24/

The signature is at the end of everyone's post in gray writing and the spreadsheet is attached to it
Here is the link so you can read about the spreadsheet and see how it works
If you need help setting it up we have a wonderful member who will set it up for you just ask
https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/how-to-create-a-spreadsheet.241706/

 

Poor baby must be starving we feed our cats more than 3 times a day
Bigger meal first thing in the morning , then multiple times after that, same goes for the night cycle

I see you just started testing which is good
I'm going to tag some prozinc user to read your intro and the BG you got
@JanetNJ

@FrostD

 

Here is the food chart for you to take a look at the carb percentages
We like to stay under 5 %
https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/dr-pierson-new-food-chart.174147/
For the weight
20 calories per lb of her ideal weight
So if herideal weight should be 16 lbs
20 x 16 = 320. That's how many calories she should be eating

 

Ahh thank you so much! I had been told she must be fed only twice a day very strictly, and she must not snack. She has been getting sufficient amount of food, just she wants something to stay out all the time. I will be sure to go through all your resources and update everything of mine.

 

You are welcome
You can also give her some of these snacks also
You can give her any freeze dried treats for a snack
most members give freeze dried treats , they are low carb, you can probably find them in some local pet stores also
I did a search for you on here and copied what some members said they use,

When testing you can give them a treat so they will associate after testing they will get a reward, any freeze dried treats are ok such as
PureBites Freeze-Dried Cat Treats with Chicken Breast 2.3 oz ()https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071P

Also chewys has freeze dried treats also


The freeze dried treats you can get at petsmart, petco and order from chewy. Purebites is popular (cheaper if you buy the dog food ones). My crew like vital essentials it's dehydrated freeze dried raw comes in flavors

freeze dried minnows, made by Vital Essentials. I also buy the ones made for dogs. They're the same as the freeze dried minnows for cats. just cheaper. They also carry other freeze dried treats. I ordered mine through Amazon.

I think the vital essentials are more of a crunchy texture than the purebites

If you cat likes any of these you can buy the bigger bags for dogs they are the same ,you will get more for your money just break then up into smaller pieces
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You can Google freeze dried treats and see what other ones there are and different flavors
Just make sure that is the only ingredient in them meaning turkey, chicken, minnows etc

Here is another one , I see you can get these in different flavors also just look
You may have to break any freeze dried treats in half if they are too big
https://www.amazon.com/Vital-Essent...ocphy=9003521&hvtargid=pla-630511512365&psc=1

Flavor Name: Duck Liver
Ahi Tuna

• Chicken
• Chicken Giblets
• Chicken Hearts
• Duck Liver
• Minnows
• Rabbit

 

Again, many many thanks. I am looking over the sheets and references and I am not sure that I understand all the numbers yet but I am sure I will get there. I would love to use something less expensive. Fortunately due to my other cats sensitive stomach we already had some rather high protein leveled foods. However, I must be dumb and missing where it says about how much % of each thing is the goal. above 40% protien is considered high right?

 

Welcome!! Tiki cat is a great choice. Yes, do feed more than twice a day. I always fed 4 times a day. just no food at least two hours prior to the preshot test. Great job learning to test already!