A personal experience that comes to mind is when my childhood cat developed kidney disease.
She drank plenty of water, urinated excessively, and her blood still became toxic without regular (~daily) intervention in the form of adding saline to her blood intravenously. Like a light switch she'd resume normal life after the saline bag emptied into her blood, then slowly become ill again in the next 24-48hrs.
Excessively drinking water, excessive urination, and renal failure are all co-morbidities for cats. Either way, kudos for helping them.
>Excessively drinking water, excessive urination, and renal failure are all co-morbidities for cats. Either way, kudos for helping them.
Those particular symptoms are common (in cats at least) to feline hyperthyroidism, which is significantly more common than feline diabetes.
Not saying it wasn't Diabetes, but Hyperthyroidism seems more likely.
J/K
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