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I have spent a week trying to follow other videos and reading everything. Your video was the one I followed and the first time I got blood and was able to test my cat and get blood and he was kept purring. Thank You, I am jazzed!! Bozzie is happy too!!

This is wonderful. I feel so much better for having seen it (although maybe you're making it look easy 😅) thank you for making a terrifying time a little easier ❤

Please place a steady camera shot, I need to see it with more precision thank you!❤

Hi Janet, thanks so much for your video! I am pretty anxious about trying this on my kitty, he starts insulin on Monday. He is the type of cat that won’t let me clip his nails without a major fuss! I’m feeling a little more optimistic after watching how you do it, I think not making a big deal about it will keep my cat calmer. Hoping lots of treats also help!

Does your little one have trouble sleeping? It takes my 6 month old 4 hours of screaming before he wears himself out enough to sleep

Your video was literally a lifesaver for my Cookie who was diagnosed with diabetes in Feb 2022. Your easy-going attitude made a HUGE difference in bringing down my anxiety. Being able to do BG tests at home is an absolute must when insulin is involved, for both humans and non-humans. I'm happy to say that Cookie has been in diabetic remission since April 2022. How did I know when I could back off from insulin? Through the BG tests. Unfortunately, Cookie has developed a number of other chronic health issues since but at least diabetes is not on that list. THANK YOU!!

Thank you ❤️

Thank you for the encouragement

What if you have a scardy cat

Thank you and your beautiful kitty for that close-up shot!! That was very helpful 🙏❤️🙏

Thank you

Does it matter the length of needle for the medicine? Walmart gave me the shortest ones possible and I'm worried they may be too short? Just barley under the skin?

Finally at 6:02 and then the finger covers what I wanted to see, which is the actual method of poking the kitty's ear.

Your cat looks like my cat. Is she still with you?

The best video for this on you tube

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH

Yes not using the lancet helped get blood. My cat is seal point and I could not see any blood cause her ears are so dark! Thank you!

These are out of date now that we have the 14 day monitors we can put on the cats to check blood sugar just like humans! And it records constantly!

Thank you, Janet. That was very helpful. And I had s kitty that looked just like yours, same face. Her name was Starla and she passed from lung cancer in 2019.

Thank you for your encouragement; i’ve had a mental block and afraid to do this by myself.

My cat is 16 and he never lets me do this!!!! I start touching his ear and it twitches a lot! Then he walks away !! He’s never been the type to cuddle

This is such an old video BUT my cat was recently diagnosed with diabetes. The vet showed me how to test and it's all good and well, but I am testing alone. Hard to keep a squirmy cat in line and get a drop of blood! Your technique of pricking the outside of the ear (rather than inside as I was shown) really changed my life and I was able to test at home for the first time! Thank you! You have made my life so much easier. I hope you and your kitty are doing well!

THANK U FOR THIS!!!😻 Miss Sugar Fatty Tabby Peebag looks a lot like yr sweet CC❤️ I had been poking her in a pretty crappy spot and had to poke her twice or three times to get blood a couple times💔 Now I know to look for the vein & POOF a perfect blood drop immediately!! No more sad kitteh ear tips. Plz give CC a giant hug from us❤️😻❤️

Thank you! I just adopted a 10 yr old rescue boy with diabetes. This is a new to me. I noticed you have been off KZbin awhile. I hope you a CeeCee are well! Thanks for letting me know I don't have to hit the vein. That makes it easier.

Thank you so much! This is the first video that walked me through what I need to do -showing me how and giving me pointers. I really appreciate your sharing this!

Thank you

Thank you so much for this video! Our cat has been a diabetic for a little over a year now and our vet recommended against home testing (we would go in every 2-4 weeks for them to do the test). Our cat recently spiked again, so we took the plunge to get a meter. Doing the first home test this evening!

My cat was recently diagnosed with diabetes and I've just started him on an insulin regimen ( 1 unit 2@ day ). When I asked my vet, how I would be monitoring his glucose levels to see if the insulin was actually working, they gave me diabetes urinalysis test strips. It's the same type of test strips that people use to test their glucose levels, but the vet said it works equally well with cats. There's no sticking of any needles into blood vessels. It's like a pH strip, you insert the end of the strip into your cats urine (I use his urine ball he creates when he uses the litter box) the tip of the strip contains a paper strip that reacts to both the glucose and ketone levels. It changes color when it comes into contact with his urine. There's a color chart on the side of the container that holds the strips. You just have to match the color and it will give you a range of both glucose and ketone levels. It may be a less painful option for anxious cat owners. I would definitely check with your vet to see if the urinalysis test strips are appropriate for your cat. The severity of your cat"s diabetes may warrant taking a blood test instead. However, for those who might be interested, the strips I use is called: Vet One - VetStix 2 Diabetes Urinalysis test strips. Hope this helped.

My Vet didn’t push home testing besides doing the blood glucose curve 5-7 days after starting the insulin at home since he gets so stressed at the Vet office and she wanted to get true results. After doing my own research and remembering my friends struggles with her own diabetic cat I am definitely going to do testing before each shot. My friend followed the Vet’s advise on how much insulin to give but they weren’t doing testing every day so her cat became Hypoglycemic and ended getting so sick he passed away. I have read similar stories and wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if I knew there had been something more I could have done for him. Thanks for showing how easy it is! Not sure if anyone has asked yet but where did you buy the lancets from?

Thank you. My vet said it’s not a normal practice to test them. I didn’t even get shown how to administer the shot bc they don’t let anyone in the office due to the covid. It makes me feel like I don’t have a support system from my vet. I’m brand new at this diabetic stuff. But my instinct is to test before giving insulin. It’s been a few weeks since the diagnosis and I haven’t seen a whole lot of improvement. He is on 2 units 2x daily. Where’d you pick up that pet meter? Do you always give the same amount of units or do you have a number range system. I always feed the cats wet food but the diabetic cat (Joey) has always been picky and wouldn’t eat much of the wet food so I have dry food for when he comes and ask for it. He would go to his food storage area and meow till someone fed him the dry food. Since the diabetic behavior started he doesn’t come and ask for his food. So I’m a bit stress about his eating behavior he has been just nic picking the food I put out. I love my baby I’ve had him for 14 yrs since he was a little tiny itty bit 2 week old baby. He was a foster baby that never made it back to the animal shelter. and I’m gonna stop Here, I just realized I’m writhing a book.I’ll take any tips that anyone might have on diabetic cats.

my cat ellis has just been diagnosed with diabetes and although i have worked in a vets, i think because it's my own cat that i am a bit more tentative about it all. your video has helped

the most important part was to see the actual poke, which you blocked with your other hand, thanks

ha, lucky you that CC is so calm. Cleo is "miss bossy feed me right f--ing now or I'll chew your arm off" cat! So I lately I have to test right after feeding, which is not ideal, but it's the only way to do it. BTW, your Neosporin expired 6 years ago!! Thanks for doing this!

I can't get my cat to keep her ears still!

Thank you so much! very helpful

thanks for your video... very helpful....

Thank you so much for the instructions on taking Blood. Our 21 pound black short hair, Called Bear, was just found to be diabetic 2 weeks ago. The testing is the hardest part for my wife, well until I showed her this video last night. Now that we know where the vein is it was quite easy getting blood. Right now he is running in the 350's but they just moved him up to 2 units.. My Wife now does not have get stressed out taking blood. (FYI, giving the shot is easy. We feed him right after the test, and he just keeps eating while we give the shot. He does not even Flinch"

can you reshoot the actual taking blood part I watched the whole video and saw nothing LOL

you must be part-angel.

Thank you for this - my kitty was just diagnosed with diabetes today, and it's all a bit overwhelming. This helped a lot, and was really reassuring. Much appreciated!

Our Muggies blood was almost at 600 when we brought him to the vet, he lost a lot of weight we thought it was hyperthyroidism, however, we were wrong, So glad I took him to the vet, also what was CC's blood at first? Muggies vet recommended 1 unit of insulin 2 times a day. Muggy has been on insulin for 3 weeks now and is starting to come back to his normal self he is putting normal weight on slowly. When I asked my vet what meter they recommend they didn't want to she said just bring him back we can check it for you.

Thank you for your video. I've been stabbing my poor cat in the wrong spot, as I was shown at the vets. Wish my Dusty was as chill as your fur baby! 😽

Thank you for sharing your process with us! It was helpful for me.

Great demo, got my alphaTRAK today for my min pin dog who was diagnosed 2 days ago, her BG was 611mg/dL. The lancet device is evil, can't get it to work even after reading and watching demos-its useless and loud so I will do your version. Just an fyi, original neosporin is ok for pets but NOT the version that comes with pain reliever, its actually bad for them.

my cat just wont stay still he keeps rubbing his ears .. its been 3 yrs and he's been fine and then he had 2 surgeries recently and his BS went bonkers and now i cant control it his poor ears are all pricked up ughhh

To be clear avoid hitting the vein correct? Hit between the vein and outer edge of ear correct?

Would have been better to see it in action to confirm but thank you for the cool extras you have in your pack. She looks like my furbaby. He's chill too

thanks so much