Do you often wonder why your dog is suddenly losing weight and increasing his water intake? Well of the many things that could be wrong you may want to consider diabetes.

Because our pets can’t tell us what is wrong like a human can we have to look closer for symptoms in the pet. Some additional symptoms are excess urination, an increased appetite but still having weight loss, dehydration, development of cataracts, or sugar in urine.

Because the dog has such a build up of sugar in its blood stream it will cause the dog to drink more water and in turn urinate more often. Weight loss would occur because the dog can not use the carbohydrates from the food it has consumed.

Instead it would use the energy from the fat and tissue of the dog. This would increase the dog’s appetite however with the increased appetite you would still see the pet losing weight.

Along with the supplement or insulin injections there are a few other things you will want to do to help your dog with his diabetes: You will want to make sure he is getting the proper exercise everyday and try to make sure that the exercise is at the same time everyday. Any dog with diabetes will need to have a daily structure for meals, exercise, and when they take their medication or supplements.

If you change the amount of food the dog eats in a day then obviously the dog’s blood sugar level is going to change that day as well, the same with the amount of exercise the dog gets in a day. This is important if giving your dog insulin for his diabetes because you will need to change the dosage according to the blood sugar levels.

This is another reason I choose to go with an all natural supplement, if I was to give my dog too much insulin it could be harmful or even life threatening. With supplements if I give him too much there is no negative side effect and it is not life threatening to him.

It is hard to regulate my dogs exercise while living on a farm some days he is running around in the fields others the only exercise he may get is when we take him for his daily walk so supplements are easier to give then the insulin for us.

If left untreated, diabetes in a dog can lead to muscle depletion, dehydration, depression, kidney failure, loss of sight, and even death. You will want to contact your vet to see if your dog has diabetes right away. Treatment options do include insulin injections however I’ve found to spare my dog the pain of daily injections there are all natural supplements available as well.

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