Thanks everyone for the nice replies! My Oliver really is a sweetheart, he IS so soft, inside and out! Not a mean bone in his precious, little furry package As for Mr. B, aka Buddy, my sugar kitty, well, it seems after several months, our insulin free honeymoon is over A little before Christmas I noticed he was peeing and drinking more and yesterday the blood checked showed a very high level He had been maintained at around a 90-100 BS level on Rx food alone. He's better today and hopefully after a bit of tweaking, he'll be insulin free again