Feline diabetes remission — where insulin treatment is no longer required — is achievable for many cats with early aggressive treatment, representing one of the most rewarding outcomes in feline medicine.
Feline diabetes remission represents the optimal welfare outcome — a cat who no longer requires twice-daily injections, who has normalized glucose metabolism, and who can return to a normal dietary relationship without restriction. The possibility of remission transforms the welfare calculus of feline diabetes treatment: what begins as a burdensome twice-daily injection regime may become a successful treatment that is ultimately no longer needed. Pursuing aggressive early treatment with the goal of remission rather than managing diabetes indefinitely is the welfare aspiration for newly diagnosed diabetic cats.