[Battle Axe]

Miss Peach is the world's worst patient. She is a biter and scrapper. She put one guy in the hospital. Ironically, because he had diabetes.

I do not think the shots will be a happy thing. Testing today and set nailed me real good on three fingers.

I don't heal real well anymore.

There are some crystals that you can put in the litter box that will give a range of readings. Has anyone used that?

The vet said that she had used up a lot of her lives when she swallowed all that string TEN YEARS AGO and had to have a huge operation on her intestines. But she survived that!!

[dynachrome]

My sister used standard diabetic strips to test the litterbox urine with one of her rescue cats. I don’t know how well that worked. Cats can’t tell ya they haven’t eaten lately or ate just 5 minutes ago. ( the cat I had died of insulin shock finally.)

[Jewels1091]

not that I'm aware of, we check with a human monitor and poke her callus on the elbow. She doesn't mind a bit, in fact she now knows when her sugar is going low and let's us know. Before we started the monitor, the vet wanted us to run around the yard after her to collect urine, but that testing only checks for keytones, which shows when they are high, it won't show if they take a sugar dive, which is what will kill them. We had several scares with that, her worse was 10!! She got Kero syrup for that one, course she didn't mind a bit.

[dangerdoc]

Cat bites are very dangerous. I’ve seen someone lose a finger over a cat bit. I’ve also seen dozens of people admitted to the hospital for antibiotics and have multiple surgeries to recover from what looked like a minor bite.

You would do well to get your bites looked after. Now as opposed to later, they can turn south in less than 24 hours. In addition, you need to not put yourself in the position of being bitten again.