by Jeff Mendelsohn | Jun 16, 2014 | Food, General Dog Diabetes Posts
It has been about two week now since Bender had his surgery. Overall he is doing really well. I had to take him back to the vet last week because the stitches on his foot didn’t look the best but the incision had closed up, it wasn’t infected, and it...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Jun 3, 2014 | General Dog Diabetes Posts
Today has been a little rough, well actually the past week and a half has been a little rough. Saturday May 24th we noticed Bender’s back left foot was bleeding. He has a habit of cutting his feet on the rocks in the back yard or getting blisters from running in...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Mar 24, 2014 | General Dog Diabetes Posts
Diabetes mellitus, or simply diabetes, is a metabolic diseases in which a dog has high blood sugar, either because the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, no insulin is produced at all, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. The...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Feb 22, 2013 | Insulin
I don’t have much experience with Bender not being a good boy when he gets his shot. He is rather docile and I’ve trained him well. So when he does receive his shot of insulin he doesn’t fuss about it. But I know not all dogs are like that. Some...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Jun 18, 2012 | Ask Bender, Food
I have been told that Raw foods (chicken etc) Nature’s Variety is better for my 12 year old diabetic Westie. Has only been on insulin 1 month. My Vet say NO only Hills Pres. w/d can food, and nothing in between meals. I bake him snacks made from the Hills dog...
