So last week, my family and I found out that our chocolate lab Dutch is diabetic. He had lost a significant amount of weight in a short amount of time recently and that concerned us, so we told my aunt, who is a veterinarian's assistant, about it. She said it was most likely diabetes, so on Friday we got blood work done to find out. We also took a urine sample, which showed he had ~540 glucose level (yikes!)

So on Monday, we decided to try out insulin to allow him to live for a bit longer (the other option was to euthanize him, which we didn't want to do until we tried the insulin) So my aunt drew his blood today to check his glucose level after we gave him 4 shots of 15 milligrams (Monday night, both meals Tuesday, and this morning) and it dropped to 230-something. My aunt thought at best it would drop to 300, so we were all very elated to find out the insulin would help him! (its harder to regulate with bigger dogs, so he's pretty lucky) And another great thing is 10 mL of insulin from Walmart will be $25, so we're good on that front (at first we thought we would have to buy the $85 one online, but that's bc my aunt wasn't aware that the bottle from Walmart was 10 mL lol)

I was gonna open donations and do special commissions with LoboSong , but now we don't have to do that. However, I will still accept donations if you want to help out, but its not a big deal! Regular commissions will still be around tho!

We're very elated about all of this! We will continue to appreciate any thoughts and prayers that he can live for a while longer if you are that kind of person. We'll be very grateful for that <3