[QUOTE=buddingartist;878283]and I DID IT.... he didn't even flinch and I, on the other hand, starting shaking.
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:highfive: Good job!!! It does get easier, I promise. You're doing great.

its not the easist thing to do, i have a diabect min pin, its been 2 yrs oct, i was so scared i too was sick, but im a diabect too, so i noticed weight loss and lots of water and pee, it gets better as you go along ,they showed me how to shave his ear just a little bic, and i do the curve because it can get expensive, it took awhile to get inslin right on, and every once in awhile you have to increase or decrease, he needs diabect food for sure, our little man too had a rough time, we have had him since he was 3 months old, now just turned 11, he had chrystals at 3, parillzed at 5, fell off sofa the wrong way, but with our great vet and his own chryo and us he is 85% better than 2 yrs ago diabect , now he is blind from being diabect, he takes 2 times a day inslin .7, best of luck to all of you and if i can be of any help just let me know, take care brenda and the pins :fingerscr

Thank you all for advice and encouragement.

We are not imagining things..... we are seeing a difference already. He was more alert during the day, his little walking gait is back and he slept right through the night and hubby woke them up at 8:30 this morning. Very little panting.

Afther their walk, I started feeding him and this time I wasn't giving him the food fast enough compared to yesterday where I had to tease and play to get one kibble in. After the feeding, he got his reward of pumpkin. Under the watchful eye of hubby (because we are both going to learn to master this), I gave him his injection and now he is lounging on the couch like a cool little dude. Once we are comfortable with the injection, we will also learn to do the curve ourselves but we want to go slow but sure.

As for the crystals in his eyes, that started last year and we can't really afford any expensive surgery if indeed they develop into cataracts.

As for his diet, our vet consulted and at this point it is best to keep him on the hypoallergenic food because it took so much work and time to get him to not having multiple interdigital cysts caused by food allergies. I suspect he also has environmental allergies so we also need to keep a close watch on that and therefore the reason why we clean his paws with saline water every night. We will gradually add scrambled eggs once or twice a week (for protein) and pumpkin (for fiber).

Have a great day everyone and again thank you so very much for caring and for your encouragement and support

Louise

I'm so glad things are going so well for you! :goodvibes:

raw diet
 

[QUOTE=Frenchy;876072]satin balls :

5 pounds of ground beef (lean) raw
5 cups of oats
3/4 cup olive oil
3/4 cup of molasses (melasse)
6 eggs
1 can of pumpkin puree (not the pie filing , the pure one)
500 mg of cottage cheese

you don't cook them , everything has to be raw.[/QUOTE]

Its refreshing to here someone any one anyone talk about a raw diet. can you expand on the last 6 ingreidients. Wondering if you've found out via your own experiance and research about those ingriedients. We feed a raw diet now as funny as it sounds to our labs because I swore I would not lose even one more dog to a disease that that I can't prove didn't come from some put together engineered kibble food. But our raw diet really only consists of meat fat bones and tripe in different percents.