This is Sylvester. He is a ( very large) five year old domestic short haired cat. He belongs to one of our technicians, Amanda. Sylvester also happens to be an interesting case in that he represents a disease for which our treatment is drastically changing. Sylvester is Diabetic.

Diabetes Mellitus is a disease in which your body looses it's ability to pull glucose (the basic energy source) into cells. This is a result of decreased insulin activity. Sylvester was predisposed to this problem due to his weight, but there are other factors like genetics. This is all old news; however, what is new is that Sylvester no longer takes insulin injections ( the standard treatment for years). Thanks to some new research, we now know that diabetes is so common in cats because of their diets. Cats are almost exclusively carnivorous and as such have not evolved to metabolize high carbohydrate diets. Most cats today eat dry food and dry food is very high in carbohydrates. With this knowledge we took Sylvester off of the twice a day insulin injections he had been receiving and put him on canned kitten food.

Sylvester has not had a single problem since.

-Geoff Wisbrock DVM

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