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November is Pet Diabetes Awareness Month
While there are some obvious similarities in human diabetes and diabetes in our pets, we tend to approach treatment a little differently in 
pets. Let’s review and see how much you know about diabetes in pets!
WHAT IS DIABETES?
Diabetes Mellitus occurs when your pet’s body produces too little insulin, stops making insulin completely or has an abnormal response to insulin. Pets and humans alike need insulin so that our bodies can convert glucose into energy to use as fuel.
If we don’t have enough insulin and we cannot convert glucose in our bodies, glucose then builds up and we become Continue…