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From: susans@cfi.COM (susans)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: pet cockateil with diabetes
Message-ID: <869@cfiprod.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 90 14:32:55 GMT
References: <3376@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: susans@cfiprod.UUCP (Susan Scheide -CFI-)
Organization: Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, Mass.
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In article <3376@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> saari@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Susan J. Saari) writes:
>
>My husband and I have a female cockateil that is about 5 years old.
>She has recently been diagnosed as a diabetic.  

	Quick!   Go get this month's issue of Bird Talk.  It
	has a lengthy article on diabetes in birds.

>The treatment involves
>daily injections of insulin for the rest of her life!!  Surely there
>must be something else we can do. 

	Not according to the article.  There was a touching story
	about a woman and her pet budgie who died from the
	disease because it was too late by the time she noticed
	the bird drinking copious amounts of water.

	Good luck to you!




-- 
                        Susan S. (susans@cfi.com)

                        Another Friend of Bill's