I have done alot of online research on dog diabetes so that I can educate myself on how to manage Zekes’ dog diabetes. Below are some websites that I feel are very helpful and contain alot of information on dog diabetes.
K9 Diabetes (great forum on dog diabetes)
Washington State Univ Veterinary College
Have you come across some great online resources for managing your dogs diabetes? If so please feel free to post them in the comments below.
If you thought that diabetes infects only HUMANS then you better watch out as it can also infect dogs. According to the sources Diabetes Mellitus is more common in dogs. Type 1 diabetes is quite common in younger dogs.
1. Dog may drink lots of water and that is due to over production or in sufficient glucose metabolism in their body and at times they may even have increased appetite.
2.One of the symptoms of diabetes in dogs is the feeling of laziness. Your dog may feel weekness or tiredness at times and this symptom should not be neglected and you should contact your vet regarding it.
3. They might urinate constantly and that is due to excessive intake of water and glucose in their body which may eventually lead to dehydration.
4. Ketones build up in their body which is a by product of fat metabolism is again one of the symptoms of diabetes in dogs.
5. Some other symptoms of diabetes in dogs are weightloss, vomiting, nausea, gum infection, fungal infection and urinary track infection to name a few.
Whenever you find any of the above mentioned symptoms then you should try to contact your vet and let him do all the necessary required tests and if diagnosed with diabetes should do proper treatment.
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on 02. Jun, 2010
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Like so many good things where there is an honest dollar to be made, you can bet that someone is there to make a dishonest dollar by defrauding people. So as a warning – please, please, do your homework before acquisition of a service dog of any type.
For the four categories below, enter the name of the person or business and the word complaints in a search engine (example: insert name of [breeder or kennel] – complaints). You will need to do the same for trainers. I was surprised at the results of several random picks. Therefore, please read the full story including the comments below the story. Some complaints are legitimate while others are mean spirited or are written by competitors. Also do not forget to check with the Better Business Bureau in the area. Use any other sources you can.
Trainer Problems
Happily, there are more trainers interested in helping you sincerely, but be careful. Even good trainers have bad days, but normally they will have your interests foremost.
The trainers we want to avoid are those that do not train the dogs. While harsh training methods are a method of training, I do not advise using trainers using these methods – aversion, force, shock and choke collars. Some trainers can really talk the talk, but produce no results, can not walk the walk. Be careful in dealing with those trainers that want a lot of money up front and have demands that have to be followed. Requests and suggestions are acceptable.
Puppy Mills
Puppy mills exist most everywhere in the US. As long as we continue to patronize them instead of boycotting them and the pet stores they supply, they will continue to cause problems for healthy dogs and local animal shelters. The shelters and ASPCA’s often have to put many of these animal to sleep when local law enforcement steps in. While ASPCA’s can take action, they need assistance from local law enforcement and thus their record is less than stellar.
Most of these puppy mills have recurring health problems in their animals. The pet stores often do not care, know that the health certificates are not up to date or are a total fake, spread this problem on to consumers. Avoid these operations if you want a healthy service dog.
Problem Breeders and Service Dog Scams
These can be separated or combined depending on the way you look at them. Since many unreliable breeders use unreliable trainers and the reverse. They both will use and sell untrained or untrainable dogs as service dogs.
There are organizations at work trying to record and maintain records of the undesirable breeders and trainers. Before retaining a trainer, take a look at this site. For breeders be sure the look at this site.
Service Dog Registry Scams
These people are diminishing the rights of owners of legitimate service dogs. This blogger is calling attention to it, while at the same time selling the equipment he is complaining about.Â
Service Dog Registry is FREE.  Why would anyone pay $ 35 to $ 350 (or more) for something that is free? Apparently many people who do not research the rules and regulations. Many people think the the fake certificates will qualify their pet as a service dog. They also use these fake certificates to get their pets into places they otherwise would be prohibited, and make it more difficult for legitimate service dogs. But a word of warning, if you travel outside the United States, you may need papers that meet the requirements of the country or countries in which you will be traveling.
For information on service dog registry check out this site and this one.
There are many medical doctors that are writing prescriptions for what are loosely termed “comfort dogs” to get their owners around the “No Pet” rules in many housing situations. The American Disabilities Act needs an enforcement provision powers to curb the abuses being foisted upon us by scammers and their own lack of definitive rules.
Other Planning
Get your service dog micro-chipped. This is in your best interest. What happens if your dog bolts away and you are miles away from home – it happens. There are dog-nappers that kidnap dogs for ransom or for sale to labs using dogs for experiments. The following are some of the sites you should be familiar with for using microchips.
Site 1. Costs vary from $ 45 to $ 60 or higher depending on the charge by the veterinary. Microchips are important. but do not replace collars, ID tags, and rabies tags. These are still the primary means for getting your service dog back when they are lost. Microchips become more important in cases where the animal is stolen and you need to positively identify the dog or in cases where the collar has broken away and the shelter has picked up the animal.
Site 2. This site tells about a universal microchip reader which many shelters do not have.
Site 3. President Bush signed a bill in 2006 that charged the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) with standardizing microchips. However, APHIS only exercises authority over organizations that are regulated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
Site 4. The American Animal Hospital Association on September 22, 2009 created the AAHA Pet Microchip Lookup Tool.  This is not available to the public for use, but you need to know that it exists and ask your local shelter, ASPCA, or veterinarian if this can be used if you lose your dog.
Uninsurable Service Dogs Â
In most states, insurance companies, in particular home owners insurance, will not cover certain breeds or mix of certain breeds in their insurance policies. So before you look for a service dog, check with your insurance carrier to see what the provisions are and what breeds might be excluded.
Food for Your Dog
Before purchasing food for your dog, you would do well to read the following articles about dog food and talk to your trainer or breeder about the foods they use. Just be careful as many of the commercial dog foods may not be suitable for your dog. Your veterinary may be a trustworthy source also, but use care.
Summary
The warnings are not all inclusive and you should do your homework before laying out money for a service dog. There may be additional information that is published that is applicable.
My rottweiler has diabetes, is there any way I can save her
Dr. Said will cost 250 per month and not get that kind of money
Here is a good link that shows the average cost. The cost of insulin, needles, test strips, and even special foods should be closer to $ 100.00 per month. Even that may be too much for your budget however. I regret to deal with it. I wish you all the best. The link is the treatment of diabetes mellitus. There is another type of diabetes called diabetes insipidus and I know these drugs can be very expensive. They are totally different – with flavor, it is rare and has nothing to do with blood sugar to the vet I would not say “they found a large amount of glucose in the blood or urine.” http://www.bddiabetes.com/us/main.aspx?cat=1&id=393
Diabetes in dogs becomes a common phenomenon. Diabetes Mellitus or type 2 diabetes affects the dogs. Diabetes also affects obese dogs. The study reveals one in five hundred dogs show the sign of diabetes mellitus. Some dog breeds seem to be more risk prone towards diabetes. These dogs breed can be -
1. Keeshond
2. Poodles
3. Samoyed
4. Daschund
5. Alaskan malamute
6. Miniature schnauzer
7. Chow chow
8. Beagle
9. Doberman
10. Labrador retriever
11. Hungarian puli
12. Golden retriever
13. Miniature pinscher
14. Old English sheepdog
15. Springer spaniel
16. Schipperke
17. Finnish spitz
18. West Highland white terrier
19. Cairn terrier
Canine Diabetes
Canine diabetes include diabetes mellitus in comparable to people with diabetes, and diabetes insipidus. Both diabetes belong to endocrine diseases group. The body system that produces the hormone becomes defective causing canine diseases, diabetes. Kidney controls water resorption relating to antidiuretic hormone, vasopressin, lacking of this system, Diabetes Insipidus occurs. Diabetes mellitus is based on insulin deficiency. Hormones play the crucial role in sugar metabolism, and these features are common in two types mostly.
Canine diabetes is categorized in two branches. These are congenital type and acquired type. The congenital type is immature, comparing to type 1 diabetes and the acquired type is mature relating to type 2 diabetes. The canine diabetes mellitus requires insulin and it is comparable to type 2 in human being, terming as IDDM.
Symptoms
The symptoms of dog diabetes can be -
1. Lethargy
2. Excessive water consumption
3. Too much urination
4. Incomprehensible weight gain or loss
Lethargy is a common symptom of many dog diseases but always not for diabetes.
Treatment
Veterinarians prefer Vetsulin for canine diabetes or type 2 diabetes. Vetsulin is composed of 30% amorphous insulin and 70% crystalline insulin. The first thirty percent actively raises high in four hours after the injection, and lasts up to eight hours. The rest 70% acts slowly and raises high in eleven hours.
Glipizide is another option. It uses to control the blood sugar level. To use for animals FDA has not approved it yet. It contains sulfonylurea, an effective anti-diabetic agent. Based on mild cases and severe cases, the diabetes remedies will take place. In mild cases, simple diet moderation and necessary drugs can come, and in severe cases, insulin injections requires.
It is unfortunate but not uncommon for canines to be diagnosed with diabetes, after all humans are not the only animals that can get this disease. Â There are two types of diabetes to watch out for.
Diabetes insipidus is characterized by the lack of vasopressin. Vasopressin is a hormone whose job is to control the kidney’s absorption of water.
Diabetes mellitus is characterized by insulin deficiency. This is the most common and the most dangerous form of the disease. This is a condition where the dog’s body can’t metabolize sugar very well. Diabetes mellitus is divided into two groups type I and type II, with type II being the most serious.
Type I is more common in younger dogs and if diagnosed early can be treated effectively. Type II normally affects older dogs and larger dogs are more at risk than smaller dog breeds. Diabetes is also known to be hereditary in dogs, much like humans.
Early diagnosis is very important to stop and reverse this disease so please take your dog to the Vet regularly. The treatment for dogs diagnosed with this disease is insulin, diet and exercise. By following your Veterinarians advice you should fine that it is not difficult or expensive to treat.
These are some common symptoms to watch for with dog diabetes:
By no means are these the only symptoms associated with this disease but they are the more common ones to watch for.
If you have any question as to the health of your dog please don’t hesitate taking them to your Vet and have a professional diagnose the condition. You are likely to find, the sooner the better when it comes to the health of your family dog.
At dog information blog we have a lot more free information available about dog health issues. The better educated we become the healthier our canine companion will be.
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The fact that over a third of the adult population in the United States is obese is startling. Â To hear that 45% of our dogs and 58% of our cats are overweight is nothing less than disturbing.
This picture of Sassy has been circulating around the internet for years, but this isn’t funny! Overweight pets are a serious problem.
Our pets don’t look in mirrors, count calories, or step on scales, so pet parents are the only ones to blame for these ridiculous statistics.  The more I read about diabetes in our dogs and cats, the more I realized it was obesity rather than genetics that was to blame.  Some of the facts and statistics literally made me sick.
Every pound your cat is overweight is the equivalent of 13 pounds of extra weight on an adult woman (15 pounds on an adult man.)  Are you still not shocked?!  How about this analogy – if you have a lab that weighs 90 pounds…that is like being a 5’4†woman weighing 186 pounds.  Yikes!
The most ridiculous statistic? Â Pet obesity is 100% preventable. Â Just as in overweight humans, overweight dogs and cats are eating too much and not exercising enough. Â This seems super obvious, right? Â Yes and no.
Everyone knows that dogs need to go for walks (although just because people know this doesn’t necessarily mean that they walk their dogs every day.)  Did you know that cats need exercise too?  (Don’t worry…you don’t have to walk them!)  Most people assume cats are fine sleeping the day away, but just getting your cat to be active for 10-15 minutes a day can make a HUGE difference in their weight (and their happiness!)
Food and treats are two not-so-obvious causes of obesity in our pets.  There is no law requiring pet food companies to provide calorie information for their products (unless they are specifically marketing their food as “low calorie.â€)  Also, a majority of people are simply feeding their dogs and cats too much.  Following the recommended portions on the bag isn’t always an accurate guideline – these are based on young, active pets that have not been spayed or neutered.  If your pet is older or isn’t being regularly exercised, but you are still following the printed serving sizes, you could be giving your four-legged friend 25% too much food.  Some of us (myself included!) cannot resist giving our little guy or gal a treat….sometimes for just being adorable! Giving your dog a small bone treat is the same as you eating two chocolate doughnuts.  A pig ear treat for your pup is the same as you drinking a six-pack of Coke.  Yuck!  Many treats today are simply loaded with sugar and fat (which is why our pets love them so!)  Am I saying you shouldn’t give your pup a treat for good behavior or for giving you those “puppy dog eyesâ€?  Of course not!!!  Just as in our own diets – they key word is moderation.
Our pets rely on us for everything.  They bring so much joy to our lives – the least we can do for them is keep them healthy.  Diabetes in dogs and cats is on the rise, and the main cause of this horrible disease is obesity.  They don’t know about cardio or portioning out their meals.  They are animals for Pete’s sake!  It is in their nature to eat whatever they can get their paws on.  It is up to us to make sure they aren’t getting their paws on too much!  This is going to sound harsh, but if you don’t have half an hour every day to devote to exercising your pet – you shouldn’t have gotten one in the first place!
Or maybe you should just call a fabulous dog walker….
The main component in treating diabetes in dogs is their diet. A high-fiber, carb-moderate diet can put dog diabetes into remission. This means time to stop the table scraps and talk to your vet about the best dog food. Watch for foods that are advertised as light, as they tend to be higher in carbs than you want. Some vets will also prescribe insulin supplements for mealtimes, or a fat-restricted diet for dogs that also have pancreatitis. Occasionally, oral medications may be prescribed .
After your pet’s diet has been regulated, you may have to give your dog regular insulin injections. There are many animal and synthetic insulin brands used to treat diabetes in dogs. The most common is probably Caninsulin or Vetsulin, but don’t be surprised if your veterinarian prescribes a human insulin instead.
Treatment for diabetes in dogs should start slowly and conservatively, largely because an overdose of insulin can kill your dog in just minutes. You should buy a blood glucose meter for your dog and test him yourself, as urine strips aren’t accurate enough to monitor glucose levels. Follow your vet’s advice; they will probably tell you that your pet’s glucose level should remain between 100-180 mg/dL, preferably toward the lower end. Readings over 250 should be called in to the veterinarian, as that is where serious damage can result. It takes experience to maintain your dog’s glucose levels.
Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), marked by lethargy, confusion, loss of bladder and bowel control, vomiting, and seizures, can be treated by rubbing honey or corn syrup on your pet’s gums and rushing them to the vet. Continue rubbing the sweets on their gums on the way; this could be a lifesaving treatment. Low blood glucose (40 mg/dL) without symptoms should be treated by giving your pet treats right away. Allow your dog to drink as much water as they want, and don’t worry that their drinking too much.
With the proper care, your diabetic dog can have a normal and healthy life.
Know if your dog is especially susceptible to diabetes. Keep in mind, however, that dogs can still get diabetes even if they don’t fall into one of these high-risk groups.
Look for the main signs of canine diabetes: excessive drinking, excessive urination, and weight loss.[3] Many times pet owners will notice the dog starts urinating in the house or in their bed. Do not limit the dog’s water intake. This is very crucial, because the dog will need all the water it needs. This will prevent dehydration.
Visit your vet immediately if you notice these symptoms. Diabetes that isn’t treated can lead to further health complications. The vet will want to perform blood tests to see how high the levels of glucose are in the bloodstream and to make sure no other organs have been affected by diabetes. They will also want to perform a urinalysis to check kidney function and monitor for urinary tract infections, which are common in diabetics.
Go to your local vet. Get his or her opinion on a kind of pet food for your pet, and talk to them about what you can do to care for your dog.
Buy the amount of insulin your vet suggests.
Move the insulin shots around. Your dog can get very sore if you repeatedly apply the shot it in the same place.
Keep a supply of insulin handy. Call the vet to order more for pick-up before you’re down to the last few days’ worth.
Go to the pet store. Get a dietary pet food, and get a blood sugar tester for your dog.
Make sure your pet sitter knows how to care for your dog. If you have to go out of town for any reason, and need a pet sitter, make sure that that person is well educated with dogs, is someone you trust, and be sure to teach them how to give insulin.
Buy low sugar or sugar free treats. Your dog will love them whether or not they have sugar or not.
Feed your dog an average daily amount of no more than 5 grams of sugar per meal. Write it down and keep track if you have to.
Ensure that any dog kept outdoors has plenty of water and shade. If the weather is unusually hot, take time to check the outdoor temperature in your pet’s area. It may be too hot in some locations to leave your pet outdoors regardless of how much water and shade your pet has.
Restrict outdoor exercise to the early morning and late evening when temperatures are cooler.
Carry water with you when walking your dog. Watch your pet carefully for indications that he is over-heating, such as heavy panting, loss of energy, and any obvious weakness or stumbling. If your pet begins to show signs of heat suffering, stop in a shady spot and give him some water. If symptoms don’t subside, take him directly home and seek veterinary care.
Never leave your pet unattended in a parked car. Even if you park in the shade and leave the windows open slightly, the internal temperature of your car can heat up and put your dog in fatal danger within just a few minutes.
Equip your car with window shades if you are planning a long car trip with your dog. Bring cold water along to help keep your dog hydrated and cool.
Recognize the symptoms of heat stroke in a dog. React quickly if you notice that your dog is dehydrated or is suffering from some or all of the following heat stroke symptoms:
If you suspect that your dog is overheated, immediately take them to a shady spot or into a cool indoors room. Removing the heat source is an important immediate response. If possible, take them into a building such as a room with air conditioning. If circulating the air through air conditioning is not possible, see if you can locate a fan.
Cool the dog down. Depending on what you have available to you, do your best to cool down your dog quickly. Some possible ways to approach this include:[2]
Fan the dog and spread their fur open using your fingers. It will help to fan your dog as you cool them with water, and run your fingers through the coat to lift it up and help the air to flow through. Fur acts as an insulating blanket trapping heat, so opening it up and exposing the skin underneath to air can help the dog to cool down faster.
Take the dogs temperature. A dog suffering from heat stroke will have a temperature of 103ºF (39.5ºC) or above. Ideally, don’t try taking the temperature until you have removed the heat source and tried to cool them down. Moreover, only take their temperature if it’s not likely to disturb or upset them. Use a rectal thermometer to take the dog’s temperature:
When your dog comes around, try to give them a small quantity of water to drink. It is also okay to try and give them pediatric electrolyte solution, repeating as often as they want to drink it.[2]
Contact an emergency vet clinic. As you cool the dog, call any emergency vet clinic for advice on treating the dog’s heatstroke. As soon as the rectal temperature is at an appropriate level, bring the dog to an (emergency) vet clinic. Be aware that even if the dog does not appear to be suffering from any issues, there may be internal damage. It’s best to have a check-up to be reassured of the all-clear.
