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 | Apr 8, 2012 | General Dog Diabetes Posts
Bender is a huge baby when it comes to cutting his nails. He cries and whines like he is in pain just at the sight of the clippers. He will run and hide if he can. And If I do manage to get a hold of his paw he does everything he can to get away. I don’t know...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Dec 31, 2011 | Food, General Dog Diabetes Posts
I don’t feed Bender table scraps or any sort of people food. He doesn’t get my pizza crust or the fat from my steak. If I do feed him any thing I’m sharing my apple or some other fruit with him, which is almost daily. Because of this he doesn’t...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Jul 14, 2011 | General Dog Diabetes Posts
A reader commented on this post about The True Cost of Having a Diabetic Dog. After reading the article I thought I should make a few updates. It has been over a year and a half since I wrote that article, a lot has changed and I’ve learned a lot. Diabetes will...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Dec 20, 2010 | General Dog Diabetes Posts
It has been bitter cold out for the last month, lightly snowy, streets are a mess and in general I just don’t want to be outside. Which means I haven’t been running the dogs every day like I usually do. Even my treadmill use is less than I would like. I...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Nov 25, 2010 | General Dog Diabetes Posts
I live in a crappy state that has the season called winter. Gray skies and bad weather with a question of why do I live here again? Due to this unfortunate change in weather it makes walking and running the dogs rather difficult. My normal routine is to ride my bike...
