My dog diagnosed with diabetes

What's in Holostic and where do you get it?
My dogs have a beef bone each every morning - unfashionable but excellent, nevertheless. The big dog eats as much of the actual bone as he can - gotta be good for the gullet. At the very least, they're getting a small amount of fresh meat everyday. The only bones I've ever seen get caught are lamb bones in dog's upper palates. Apparently chicken bones splinter too. I stick to beef.
The vets all tell me how good their teeth are, what am I doing.

 

I have small dogs so only give them the like of lamb necks as beef bones are harder and might crack their teeth. I brushed their teeth daily and nothing clean the teeth faster than chewing the bones

I use freeze dried raw (Ziwipeak, k9, frontier pets) as it's easier to prep, along with some fresh lightly cooked protein.

 

The ingredients are on their website. Holistic Pet Food: Dog Food Recipes | Holistic Select®

Mainly its just good quality protein as the main ingredient. Its also grain free.

Compare that to royal canine: Adult Large Dog - Dog Food - Royal Canin

Main ingredient cheap corn. Then the second biggest ingredient is poultry protein. Probably cheap crap. And then back to cheap wheat flour.

So Royal Canine is mainly corn and wheat. Which is terrible for dogs.

You can get holistic from pet barn and a few other places.

Its still just a dry food so not perfect. But a lot better then the alternatives.

 

Hey guys

We are doing well

Just monitoring Sophie, fiet change.... low carB, high protein
I am weak partner managing food intake

early days.. but we are in it for the long haul


Overall am Feeling positive about Sophie, shecis doing well, not vomiting anymore...yay

 

Fingers crossed for your little dog. Its always a horrible feeling when your dog is sick.

 

She is doing really well, but of course early days.
Been researching this and if managed correctly can live a good life

 

Hopefully only up and up from here onwards

She’s very cute and still look like a puppy

 

Awww very cute. Thats good to hear that it should be able to be managed successfully.

 

Its still early days as mentioned, but its been very positive so far... some dogs after weeks of treatment do not respond.

No little treats anymore..... that's hard, she just has to adapt.

MTR

 

is your dog overweight? I see a lot of really overweight dogs. That can bring many health complications, just like in humans.

 

No not overweight, but diet could be improved

 

oh i see the photos now.
Interesting outcome.
Dogs can survive quite well being quite lean and eating a lot of vegetables. Perhaps just transition slowly to that type of diet.

 

Sad thing is that I found out that 75% dogs with diabetes will end up blind (cataracts). This can happen in a very short time frame, weeks/months.
One step at a time, we just have to see how it all pans out. We have already decided to go ahead with eye operation if this were to happen.

I know someone whose dog went blind and they did not go ahead with the operation due to costs involved. But they had the money?? I don't get this at all, this is just so wrong. When you commit to a pet its part of the family that is the way I see it.

Interesting, cats with diabetes do not have the eye issue.

MTR

 

I really hope that she won't get cataracts especially after you manage it well. Fingers crossed!

It's hard to judge on other people financial situation only from what we see. I would have gone with the op if it means better life quality. I keep pets insurance for just in case, but sometimes think I might just put the money into the dogs savings account.

How much does a cataract surgery cost?

 

Not sure but I have been told around $5000 per eye

 

Update
Onto two injection per day of insulin, 12 hours apart

Walking every morning, shes one happy chapette

She is progressing well but is continually looking for food

Anyone feed their dog greenies as treats???

Would like a healthy treat that will distract

Told deer antlores, but she could crack her teeth, give that a miss

MTR

 

Don't feed greenies (I assume you're talking about the chew for tooth thingy and not veggies). It's pretty much made of starch and very processed.

Are you looking for treats or something to chew? If something to chew I give mine dried Roo tendon. Usually about $60-70 per kg online

Roo Tendon 1 kg

Did vet mention anything that she can/ can't eat?

 

He suggested greenies

 

Not a prefered chew option for any dog in my book, but that's personal choice.

Can she chew bones? Or even dry your own jerky? Any requirement to keep her blood sugar up with the chew?

 

Not sure if it helps in Sophies case @MTR but for anyone else looking for quality food, (we have 2 Great Danes, one is 4+ years, the other 10 months and it is crucial they get the right ratios of certain things when growing), we just swapped the both onto Stay Loyal. All stage for the older boy and large breed puppy for the pup.

We fed our old Dane a raw diet, but this time we've stuck with dry for convenience as much as anything (and the fact these two came through rescue already on a dry kibble diet) I spent a LONG time researching the latest foods as I wasn't keen on what they were being fed wen they came to us and we settled on Stay Loyal, have a look at their website heaps of info on there.

It's not cheap, but you don't need to feed as much of it as it's all top quality stuff.

It's grain free and all the meat ingredients are genuine meat meal and not "by product".

Ingredients are all sourced in Australia and it's made here too. Great website great company and our two and doing fantastic on it, they're onto their third 15kg bag each just now, their coats have shined right up, eyes are bright and stools lovely and firm.

It's online order only, direct from them.

Dog food online | Stay Loyal