This is the second in a two-part story that originally ran in Catnip, the newsletter of Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts; here is Part 1, which described the disease and focused on causes and diagnosis. My primary veterinary source at Tufts was Orla Mahony, ACVIM, ECVIM, a specialist in small animal endocrinology, and…
Feline Diabetes, Part 1
Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time knows that nothing annoys me more than the conflating of feline and canine diabetes — sometimes by medical professionals. I’ve posted about canine diabetes, which is akin to Type 1 in humans, several times because it’s an important part of my life with Frankie.…