Many diabetic cats can achieve remission with appropriate diet and insulin management. Achieving remission dramatically improves welfare by ending the need for injections and monitoring.
Diabetic cats managed with twice-daily insulin injections experience welfare compromise from the injections themselves and from the ongoing glycaemic instability. Achieving remission through aggressive dietary management and appropriate insulin dosing eliminates injection stress and restores metabolic normality. Cats in remission have dramatically improved quality of life. The effort invested in achieving remission through diet change and close glucose monitoring is justified by the welfare dividend of insulin independence.