Healthy Cats

Feeding Tips for a Cat With Diabetes

Can Diet Improve My Cat’s Diabetes?

If you're careful about diet and insulin therapy, you may notice that you can start lowering your cat’s insulin dose.

In some cats, diabetes will even go into remission. But that doesn’t mean the cat is cured.

“I tell the owners that they should still think of their cat as having diabetes -- it’s just controlled,” Schermerhorn says. Sometimes cats that have gone into remission will experience flare-ups and will still need to take insulin once in a while to control their diabetes. Owners need to be committed to caring for their diabetic cat for life, he says.

Frostig has kept his cat on a strict regimen of diet and insulin shots, and now it’s hard to tell that Bill is anything but a normal, healthy cat -- or that he is 15 years old. “He’s still running around the house like he’s young,” Frostig says. “I have to remember sometimes that he has diabetes.”