Boarding a diabetic dog?
So I'm sitting in Florida and my Valentine has flown to Michigan - a quick trip to attend the funeral of his sister :-(
Jimmy is a mini-aussie/mini-poodle; and thanks to diabetes, he's also about 95% blind with cataracts. At 10 yrs old, he's still happy, funny, cuddly - and as long as he knows where he is, he seems to get around just fine. But I'm not comfortable with the thought of boarding him (nor is Ed). I would worry that someone would forget his twice-daily shot of insulin; or that he'd be so stressed by a strange place with strange people, that it would mess up his nice stable blood-sugar?
We DO re-arrange our life to accommodate his meals/shots (most of the time it's not that hard).
Am I nuts? Have others boarded their diabetic dogs?
Jimmy is a mini-aussie/mini-poodle; and thanks to diabetes, he's also about 95% blind with cataracts. At 10 yrs old, he's still happy, funny, cuddly - and as long as he knows where he is, he seems to get around just fine. But I'm not comfortable with the thought of boarding him (nor is Ed). I would worry that someone would forget his twice-daily shot of insulin; or that he'd be so stressed by a strange place with strange people, that it would mess up his nice stable blood-sugar?
We DO re-arrange our life to accommodate his meals/shots (most of the time it's not that hard).
Am I nuts? Have others boarded their diabetic dogs?
