which brings me to another question I've always had - in humans, of course, there are many types of diabetes -- in fact, the medical community recognized they aren't even the same disease, it's just that they were all lumped under the same name a few centuries again because they all caused sugar in the urine - I am diabetic but mine is the type that used to be called juvenile, then got changed to type I, now is mostly called IDDM or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. It is not caused by or aggravated by excess weight, excess weight does not increase the risk of developing it, and losing weight has no affect on the effectiveness of treatment. So - my question is - does anybody know if this holds true in cats? Are there different forms of the disease that affects cats? Just something I've always wondered about....