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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Base of tail; no device just a 26 gauge lancet, meter is one touch ultra
Base of tail; no device just a 26 gauge lancet, meter is one touch ultra
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Maggie - 15 1/2 y/o JRT diagnosed 9/2007, Angel status on 6/20/16. Her mantra was never give up but her body couldn't keep up with her spirit. Someday, baby....... -
Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Where: Base of tail
Lancet: 26 gauge. Alpha Trak2
Lancet Device: Alpha Trak2
Setting: 4
Meter: Alpha Trak2Barb & Abby 12/24/1999-12/31/2013 ~ dx 5/10/2011 ~ Forever in my heart ~Comment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Where: base of tail
Lancet: 26 gauge
Device: yes
Meter: Alpha Trak 2 and ReliOn PrimeMargaret; Teddy is a 10 year old 40 lb. cockapoo; relion-Novolin-N 2x - 17 units; Natural balance fish and sweet potato; blind from cataracts and glaucomaComment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Where - Inner top lip both sides, near canine teeth. Wipe lip first to help blood form a bead and stop it being slimy
lancet device - One Touch
Lancet - One Touch Ultrasoft, I think they are 29guage (thin)
Setting - deepest (9)
Meter - One Touch UltraEasy. When compared against the vet's analyser it was almost spot on.Eddie - Lab x golden retriever. Weighed 63lbs. Ate Canagan. Diagnosed October 2012. 13units of Caninsulin twice a day. Had EPI as well as diabetes. Died 20 June 2017. Loved forever.Comment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
where: inside upper lip, just above canine tooth, alternate sides
lancets used: 26 gauge
lancing device: Relion Prime
setting: I take off the outer cap that has the settings. This may be the same as the highest setting, I don't know, but it works better for me.
meter: usually Relion Prime, AlphaTrack if low (experimenting with FreeStyle strips)Jeb & Glennys - 10-year-old collie mix, 54 lbs., diagnosed June 2012. 11.5 units Novolin N twice a day. Tested with Relion Prime and AlphaTrak2. Eats Hills WD.Comment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Dog lays down, I stand over it's back (leg on each side), facing same direction as the dog.
Where - Inner top lip, right side, near canine teeth. Wipe lip first.
Lancing device - One Touch
Lancet - One Touch Ultrasoft, it doesn't say what gauge on the box
Setting - 4 for Soaphie, 5 for Sydney (on scale of 1 to 9, 9 being the deepest)
Meter - One Touch Ultra2Soaphie = 15 yr old Border/Berner mix dx 07/08. ~8.25 units a.m./p.m. vetsulin, blind/deaf. Ultra Senior, Vital Beef/Bison, Brown Rice and lots of loving. Soaphie passed on October 29, 2015. Sydney = 14.5 yr old Aussie/Shar Pei mix dx 11/10. NPH-varies w/ predinisone a.m./p.m., blind/deaf. Sydney passed on June 3, 2014.Comment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Where: Elbow callus. She never flinches here.
Lancet: Relion
Lancet Device: None - just use the lancet
Setting: NA
Meter: One Touch Ultra 2Denali: 13+ yr old spayed black lab female. Diagnosed Diabetic 02/06/13. Denali:One Dogs Journey With Canine Diabetes This little girl is the light of my life.Comment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Where: Elbow callus. He doesn't even notice it.
Lancet: OneTouch Delica 33 gauge
Lancet Device: OneTouch
Setting: 7 (it's such a fine gauge lancet and his callouses are so thick that I need that setting)
Meter: OneTouch Verio IQComment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Where: where front dew claw used to be or back foot
Lancet: OneTouch Delica ---but use the lance without the device
Meter: OneTouch UltraMiniComment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Where: Ear (and must have boiled chicken as a reward)
Lancet: AlphaTrak 26 gauge
Lancet Device: N/A just use the lancet
Meter: AlphaTrak 2My handsome boy is Colt. He's a 4 yr old 98 pound Husky Pyrenees mix. He was diagnosed on 2/14/14 and is currently on Novolin-N twice a day with meals and still working to find the ideal dosage and levels.Comment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Elbow callouse, he does not even feel it.Ben wgt. 45 lbs. Puggle diagnosed 1/15/14 Hills Science Diet W/D with smaller topper of wet Novalin-N 13 units b.i.d.Comment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
In upper lip. I tried the elbow callous but didnt get any blood.Daytona-9 year old black lab. 101 lbs diagnosed 3/14/14
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
Lip & elbow callous.Milo 28 pounds. 7.5 units 2x per day. 1 cup WD wet. 1/2 can WD wet. (each feed). 11 years Rat TerrierComment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
The underside of the top lip above the canine tooth.
Used the ReliOn 31g lancets freehand, without the device.
Eileen and Mildred, 12 yo Border Collie Mx, 24.6 pounds, dx diabetic/hypothyroid 2004, gallbladder removed 2005, cataract surgery 2005, spindle cell sarcoma removed 2009, stroke 2009, tail removed 2011, dx with bladder cancer 2011, CDS, Organix~chicken / NPH,HumalogComment
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Re: Poll: How and Where you test your dog's blood sugar
on his ear..and boy when you hit that vein just right you get tons of blood..sherryandfred.. in memory of fred he was a rat terrier that lived life with diabetes for 4 years and being blind for most of his life..he finally crossed the bridge on april 2, 2014 and will be missed greatly...Comment
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