Other common symptoms include urinary incontinence ... will have extremely high blood glucose, up to 800 mg/dl. Diabetes in dogs can be treated, but it is most successful when caught early.

And when they exercised, they no longer had episodes of hypoglycemia. Dogs that were injected with viruses carrying only the gene for insulin or only the gene for glucokinase continued to have ...

"In this study, we found that certain biomarkers start to show up before symptoms are present, and we think this can help us identify dogs before they actually have the disease," she said.