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Animals ranging from horses to pet birds to ferrets can get diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common hormonal disorders in the dog. It is a bit less common in cats. For both types of diabetes, your pet will experience an increase in urination and drinking, but for different reasons. In diabetes insipidus, either the body is not making enough of the hormone that tells the kidneys to retain water or the kidneys can't respond to this hormone. In diabetes mellitus, there is a lack of insulin, a hormone that helps bring glucose into most body cells.