raised temperature on Toy Poodle

[jamesb]

Hi
My 11 year old toy poodle was diagnosed with diabetes 2.5 weeks ago, and was put on insulin. Last week her was tested, she glucose went down from 380 to 340, she gained back 1 pound and was moving around more like normal. She has cataracts.
Tonight I come home, she cant find the step to our front door, she's hot to the touch, and is moving a little off balance.
Thoughts? I'm calling the vet in the morning.

 

[jaycee33]

This used to happen occasionally to our dog Buster and it was invariably when he was going hypo.
He had to be injected twice a day(very expensive as he was a Newfoundland cross) and most of the time his sugars were under control.
All you can do is treat him as you would a human -good quality food and check his blood sugars every day and and you may get many more years with her(Buster lived to be 15 years old).
Best of luck.
John

 

[Hooked]

Hope your dog is feeling better now.

It might be worth looking into alternative diets for your dog. I raw feed mine (non diabetic) and have heard owners of diabetic dogs and cats say how it has improved their pets' condition. Many need a lot less insulin in their injections and some even stopping injections. Commercial dog foods contain a lot of grain and corn, heavy in carbs, which our carnivore friends just aren't built to deal with.

You may or may not wish to research more into it; just thought I'd mention in case it's of use to you.

 

[luceeloo]

Hi James,

Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I had a toy poodle who also had diabetes. She was diagnosed at the age of 6, along with cushings syndrome, and lived until she was well in her teens.
Back in the 90's there wasn't a lot of advice given, so we managed her diabetes through trial and error. Every morning we would catch her first wee of the day (using a little saucer that we'd run out and put underneath her just as she'd started to wee), and would test using the keto diastix (available from the chemist). This would always give us a basic idea of where her levels were and how much insulin to give her.
Food-wise, we were duped by the vets into the idea that you must feed specialist canned food - back then it was called canine WD and looked a lot like compressed sawdust. In later life, she turned her nose up, so did pretty okay on a diet of boiled lean meat, fish and veggies.
There were moments when she went a little wobbly - and if this was the case, we would go by what her morning diastix said... if her levels were high we would give her an extra couple of units and a longer walk, or if she was too low, she'd get a treat - usually a corner of toast with the tiniest smear of jam on it.
Being diabetic now myself, the advice for humans is pretty much the same as the trial and error way we learned to control our dog's diabetes... low carb diet, regular exercise, and routine monitoring.

Good luck!