After a diagnosis, owners are usually told: the cat needs the right food. Then the confusing part begins — the pet store shelves, the words “diabetic,” “premium,” and “grain-free” on the packaging, and no clear sense of which bag to pick. In reality, the choice comes down to two things: fewer carbohydrates in the food […]
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You’ve noticed your cat is drinking more than she used to. The water bowl empties faster, you’re topping it up more often, and sometimes she stands at the bowl for ages or drinks from the tap. This article is for you. We’ll go through how to tell whether your cat really is drinking “a lot”, […]
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Some diabetes complications can’t wait until morning. Ketoacidosis is the most serious of them. It can happen to a cat that has been in treatment for a long time, or it can be the very first sign of diabetes — in which case the owner meets the disease head-on through a severe crisis, without ever […]
Read more →For almost a year now I have been keeping an open dataset drawn from a glucose and insulin diary — a year of cat diabetes data. In March 2026 it held 6,773 manual measurements from 121 pets. Today it’s 16,796 measurements from 166 pets: 153 cats and 13 dogs, spanning November 2025 – October 2026. […]
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When Manishka was diagnosed with diabetes in October 2025, I still had to learn how to measure your cat’s blood sugar at home: I knew how to read server graphs but had no idea how to get a drop of blood from a cat. At the clinic, blood sugar is often measured from a vein: […]
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When a cat is diagnosed with diabetes, the first practical question is almost always the same: which glucose meter for cats you should buy. That’s what happened to our Manishka in October 2025. The pharmacy offers a human meter, the clinic hints at a veterinary one, and the test strips differ in price several times […]
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When I first started looking up normal blood sugar in cats, I expected a threshold: below it green, above it red. That’s not how blood works. A single reading at the clinic can be high because of stress and still not mean diabetes, while a calm 5 mmol/l at home tells you nothing about what […]
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In October 2025, our cat Manishka was diagnosed with diabetes. Our first evening went into searching: “insulin for cats,” “how to inject a cat with insulin,” “Lantus for cats.” I dismissed other people’s numbers right away: the dose is calculated by the vet for this particular cat — based on weight, lab results, and the […]
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In October 2025, our cat Manishka was diagnosed with diabetes. The first week after your cat was diagnosed with diabetes sets the rhythm for months. I walked out of the clinic with a vial, syringes, and a calendar of morning and evening injections — and with the feeling that I had already forgotten everything. Everyone’s […]
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I don’t have a diabetic dog. The journal that Diabnostic grew out of started with a cat: Manishka was diagnosed in October 2025. But dog profiles have already appeared in the journal, and “diabetes in dogs” is a frequent search. The record fields are the same — the disease is different. And the differences are […]
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