Transporting a cat

[Eadwine Rose]

OK.. well that is progress at least.


You don't do measurements yourself? You know.. with those measuring instruments. I had a kitty with diabetes a looonnngg time ago (about 9 years ago now), and had to check his levels prior to injecting. He was on lantus though, human insulin.



Each time he had his blood tested the thing would beep.

He got a candy.



My mate was visiting (also diabetic), measured his own... BEEP.


MEW!!!!

[j2mcgreg]

Eadwine Rose wrote:

You don't do measurements yourself? You know.. with those measuring instruments. I had a kitty with diabetes a looonnngg time ago (about 9 years ago now), and had to check his levels prior to injecting. He was on lantus though, human insulin.

No I don't home test -- as soon as Babe sees the measuring device, she's gone. On those times when I was able to grab her before she split, doing the test just freaked her out and it increasingly became far more aggravation than it was worth. Babe is on Lantus as well and the reason vets prefer it is that cats that get Lantus can go into remission whereas cats that get Lente or Caninsulin cannot.

[Eadwine Rose]

Yeah.. indeed. Agreed.

And Lantus is far better.


My cat had a "sugardaddy". My mate who used lantus gladly donated vials back when he was still alive to people with lantus cats. Whether he took two or ten vials didn't make a difference after all, he still got charged the full charge. So.. he made good use of it and helped many cats :)

Caninsulin is what we started on.. yeah.. eh.. ah well..

Yeah when testing causes that much stress.. nope. Not worth it. At least lantus is a lot kinder with the sudden drop in blood values than caninsulin is.


My cat didn't mind the measuring thingie, but I used the needle from my hand, not using the shooting thing. Poked a hole straight through his poor ear with that.. n'awww! I then just nicked that vein on the outside and that was enough. Beep MEW!!! Candy! Did he love his candy

Turned out later he had a tumor which was causing the diabetes.. lots of internal parts were grossly messed up in that cat by then, and he was ooooold.. my mate and I let him go as soon as we heard. At least I know: he was happy when we got him, and he was happy when I let him go. Sweetest red I ever had.

[j2mcgreg]

Lantus insulin costs between $75 - $80 ($Can) per vial and it only lasts about 28 days before you should replace it. However, I belatedly found out a way that I could have saved a lot of money had the options been explained to me from the get go. Here's how it works:

the unit cost of a insulin needle is $0.55, so a 28 day supply of needles is $30.5. add cost of the insulin, $78, and the total current cost / mo. is $108.5. However there is another way to purchase and administer the insulin which FOR CATS is way cheaper. You can get an insulin pen which takes cartridges of insulin. A box of five cartridges is $125.00 and the pen is included free. For a human, each of those cartridges contains enough insulin for 5 - 7 days, but for a cat that's a month's supply. Had our old vet or pharmacist explained that to me, my cost for Babe's medication would have been about $25.00 / mo.

[Eadwine Rose]

Dang.... that would have been so nice to know.... :/

[rokytnji.1]

Fat Russian Blue Female/-> Slave property here.

Thanks for the tip. I have the big metal folding garden wagon that can already do this.
Fun part is when I strap down the pet carrier on the Harley Davidson and drive 75 miles one way down I20 E to get her gnarly fur removed at the closest pet center.

[j2mcgreg]

Babe had a glucose curve done today and she is officially in remission!!! No more insulin shots and the only thing on her horizon is a rabies vaccination around the middle of August.

[Eadwine Rose]

WOOHOOOOO!!! *dances with joy*

[j2mcgreg]

Thanks. However she doesn't yet understand that this also means that I get to sleep in a bit in the morning and that breakfast time is now 9:00 am (instead of 7 am).

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Great news j2mcgreg, very happy to hear that

Fun part is when I strap down the pet carrier on the Harley Davidson and drive 75 miles one way down I20 E to get her gnarly fur removed at the closest pet center.

Was the cat OK with that?

I transported my cat on my motorbike once but she was still groggy from anesthetic so she didn't know what was going on.

I have to take her to the vet on Friday but I don't think she would tolerate a motorbike ride when sober, she gets stressed enough on the bus...