Alex was born in April 1989. She had always been a large cat (as high as 14 lb) and very sedentary. When she started drinking and peeing alot and lost weight, I suspected diabetes. She was officially dx on 7/14/03. We made the decision to have Alex put to sleep 12/26/05. She was having trouble breathing, not much interest in eating, and not getting much sleep because she would relax and put too much weight on her chest to be able to breathe. In the end, we had another 2.5 years with Alex after her diagnosis with diabetes and it was not the diabetes that took her life in the end.