What to do about diabetic dog and careless family members?
My mother in law’s dog was just recently diagnosed as diabetic. His blood sugar was unbelievably high!
He gets insulin shots twice a day, but when I took him to the vet today they said there was no change and they upped his insulin.
The reason, I think, is because he gets WAY too many treats, but my mother in law and the other people I live with won’t listen to me when I say he doesn’t need 50 treats a day.
He gets a treat everytime he goes outside. He gets treats for looking sad. He gets treats out of pity. He gets treats after his shots….and its not my dog so no one will listen to me when I say that its ridiculous to go through 3 packs of dog treats in a week.
Is there any way I can get them to understand that they are not helping his diabetes by feeding him high-sugar treats? Or what would be an alternative way to reward him for doing such menial tasks as peeing (its to the point now where if he doesn’t get a treat everytime he goes outside, he goes nuts)
Any recipes?
Likewise, are there any vet approved homemade diets for a diabetic dog? After reading the ingredients of his canned food I’m not so sure thats the best thing to feed him afterall….the first ingredient listed is corn, followed by soybean meal, and poultry byproduct.
The dog already went blind last year…probably from too many treats.
Oh my! Try this on them. Their dog will go blind if the insulin doesn’t start to work. Then they will have a blind and diabetic dog. If they aren’t careful with the diet, their dog can get other health issues from the immune deficiency. He can get Addisons Disease or Cushings Disease, which are very expensive to diagnose and just as difficult to treat.
We took good care of our dog and had her on a special diet. One day one of our other dogs knocked over the garbage can and she gorged on leftovers. Within 24 hours she was in the ER with acute Pancreantitis. They put her on all kinds of meds, but 24 hours after that we got a call from the vet asking us to hurry there. She was so doped up on morphine that she had no idea where she was or who we were, and she was literally screaming, and I mean SCREAMING in pain.
We put her down that day.
You can call your vet and ask him to have a blunt conversation with them about what will happen to the dog if they continue this irresponsible behavior.
Good diet and weight control are essential for the Insulin to work. If they don’t care how their dog suffers, you can always crack them in the side of the head!
Edit: Ask the vet about treats. We used slices of apple and all meat treats, such as duck or chicken breast. For food while she was still in jeopardy we cooked shedded chicken and white rice. After she was regulated on the Insulin, we switched her diet to a dog food with no fillers, by-products or preservatives. She did very well on that.
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ask ur vet about diabetic dog chocolate, then make the dog chocolate nests (u know like the ones u used to get at easter using shredded wheat, melted choc and spooned into bun cases)
how about getting a dry dog food from the vets and giving that as a treat? they have allergy, diabetic, etc as dry food, in pellet form
one of my friends dog was diagnosed with diabetes, they swapped his treats for carrots and apple (no pips or core-harmful to dogs)
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A raw or grain free/low grain diet is better than the prescription diets.
Switch out his treats to bits of freeze dried liver,melon,and low carb veggies
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She needs to stop that. Tell her it is okay to say good boy well done.
I have never had to use treats to train my dogs. I refuse to. My voice alone is okay. I am not saying treat training is not good because some dogs will learn by this method, but most owners know, not to reward with food every time.
Ask her if she thinks spending all that money on medicine for him and then coming back and just carrying on with the same old bad habit makes sense because she is throwing her money away.
Stop the treats. He will eventually realise he is not going to get treats all the time. In the wild dogs don’t eat treats. They have their food, and going to the toilet is not rewarded with food. Does she reward herself each time she uses the bathroom? I doubt it.
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Oh my! Try this on them. Their dog will go blind if the insulin doesn’t start to work. Then they will have a blind and diabetic dog. If they aren’t careful with the diet, their dog can get other health issues from the immune deficiency. He can get Addisons Disease or Cushings Disease, which are very expensive to diagnose and just as difficult to treat.
We took good care of our dog and had her on a special diet. One day one of our other dogs knocked over the garbage can and she gorged on leftovers. Within 24 hours she was in the ER with acute Pancreantitis. They put her on all kinds of meds, but 24 hours after that we got a call from the vet asking us to hurry there. She was so doped up on morphine that she had no idea where she was or who we were, and she was literally screaming, and I mean SCREAMING in pain.
We put her down that day.
You can call your vet and ask him to have a blunt conversation with them about what will happen to the dog if they continue this irresponsible behavior.
Good diet and weight control are essential for the Insulin to work. If they don’t care how their dog suffers, you can always crack them in the side of the head!
Edit: Ask the vet about treats. We used slices of apple and all meat treats, such as duck or chicken breast. For food while she was still in jeopardy we cooked shedded chicken and white rice. After she was regulated on the Insulin, we switched her diet to a dog food with no fillers, by-products or preservatives. She did very well on that.
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tell your mother in law to stop giving it treats!
ok first of all
dogs r only supposed to get treats if it does something good
like if you tell it to sit it sits
second of all tell her that if you give it that many treats
a day hes gonna die!!!
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Just tell her it will kill the dog if his diet isn’t regulated… A few treats a day will be fine, but he needs to be fed 2 times a day the same stuff and the same amount at the same time everyday to get this under control. Its the only way to determine how much insulin should be given and to keep his sugar levels in the normal range. Once this is under control, he will need to be monitored closely and will likely need to have his insulin increased once in a while. Good Luck..
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