Can I Pre-fill Syringes? After Lucy was diagnosed with diabetes and I learned that I had to feed and give insulin every twelve hours, I quickly realized that I would have to work around her sched ...
One Thing at a Time with Your Diabetic Dog Pt. 2(Post)One Thing at a Time with Your Diabetic Dog Pt. 2 In the last post, I covered Schedule and Food, today we move on to the other fundamentals of Canine Diabetes and how only changing one thing at a ...
Christmas Treats for Your Diabetic Dog!(Post)Christmas Treats for Your Diabetic Dog! Christmas is almost here! That means it’s time for goodies of all kinds to be made, stockings to be filled and presents to be wrapped. If you want to spo ...
The Eaton Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Value of Planning(Post)The Eaton Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Value of Planning 2025 was off to a great start, we spent several days with friends and dogs up in Mount Shasta. We all had a fabulous time and as expected ...
Keeping Your Diabetic Dog Hydrated(Post)Keeping Your Diabetic Dog Hydrated Today we are revisiting the topic of hydration. Dehydration is a real concern for all animals in the summertime, but for our Diabetic pups, it’s a huge concern.
The Working Fur Parent(Post)The Working Fur Parent Our cats are independent creatures and usually come around when they want regardless of what we are doing. Our diabetic kitty can be worrisome at first, but there are ways ...
Canine Nutrition: Essential Supplements(Post)Canine Nutrition: Essential Supplements For this blog series, Canine Nutrition we went over the essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids that dogs require. I also went over carbo ...
FAQ, Part 1(Post)FAQ, Part 1 Over the past six years I have learned so much about canine diabetes but there was a starting point where I knew nothing about diabetes management. There were questions I had, and g ...
Dehydration and My Diabetic Dog(Post)Dehydration and My Diabetic Dog Today we talk about dehydration. Dehydration is a real concern for all animals in the summertime, but for our Diabetic pups, it’s a huge concern. Sum ...
Thank You from our Diabetic Dogs(Post)Thank You from our Diabetic Dogs Today I’m going to speak for all of us and say a HUGE thank you to the folks at PetTest. Where do I begin? In the beginning, Advocate started in the human diabe ...
A Quick Guide to Reading Pet Glucose Meters(Post)A Quick Guide to Reading Pet Glucose Monitors After Lucy was diagnosed with diabetes I ordered a meter and quickly set it up. I didn’t really understand much about canine diabetes at that point b ...
Canine Nutrition: Carbohydrates and Human-grade Foods(Post)Canine Nutrition: Carbohydrates and Human-grade Foods Shortly after Lucy was diagnosed with diabetes and she healed from acute pancreatitis I started making her food from a recipe my vet ga ...