Add me to the list of diabetic-dog owners....
So I guess I've been too lucky all these decades; plus adding a breed that is more likely to get diabetes (poodles) upped my chances anyway - but 8 year old Jimmy (mini Aussie/Mini poodle cross) deli...
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Deb and Ed M wrote:
So back to "consistency when dealing with a diabetic dog": When at home, I can just let the dogs out the door to do their business in our fenced yard. When we Snowbird in FL - they have to be walked; and the usual scenic route we walk in the morning is 1/2 mile; might do it again in the afternoon. We all come back to Michigan a little slimmer ;-)
Is there a "best" time to walk Jimmy? My brain is saying don't walk him before a meal, because he needs that extra glucose for exercise after a meal?? But of course that's also when he gets his shot of insulin.... does that "spike" after the injection; or is it used at a fairly proportional rate? Am I overthinking this? I just remember that my sis-in-law took her diabetic dog on a longer-than usual walk; and he keeled over from low blood sugar and scared her to death thinking she'd killed him....
Over thinking it isn't a bad thing here, it's how you find solutions to your problems or answers to your questions.
Now with our Zachery, his daily walk was three to four miles.
When we are in Florida for the winter we do the preserves.
So...they eat breakfast then the insulin then the walk.
I do think that keeping him in good physical shape helped him immensely, much the same with humans.
Also...I too use to get the insulin at the pharmacy but switched to Walmart, same product, a fraction of the cost.
Sher
