Canine siezures..??

[Gunther]

Who on TBH has had experience with this? I'm out of town on business and my wife calls me crying about our 10 year old yellow lab, Kally. Apparently she got a scare when she let her out this morning and shortly after walking out the door, she stopped and collapsed on the porch on her side, whining, with her legs trembling and tounge extended. Luckily she recovered quickly, but from what my wife tells me, she is still moving a little slow, but her appetite is good and she is eating food & drinking water.

[Casey]

My cocker had the same thing when I was a kid. We were told to give it Dramamine (motion sickness medication) which would calm the dog and cut back on the seizures...temporarily.

[hoythunter02]

I have heard of these seizures in dogs before. My Basset Hound did something similiar to what you described one time.

[PaHunter1972]

have her taken to the vet to make sure her bp and such is god. I had a lab at one time that had un-diagnosed high blood pressure, and did the same thing. If they get worse, just make sure she is laid on her side and keep her from swallowing her tongue. Best bet is to have her checked out

[Dc78]

Our Min Pin has them on occassin. It is not a pretty sight. Being a smaller dog vet said he was going into protein shock. We had to quit giving him rawhide to chew on. He still continues to have them. He is eating pecans from neighbors tree that overhangs to our yard.

[M Williams]

My GSP had them when she was younger, we were given Phenobarbitol (spelling?) from the vet, she grew out of it luckly, my wife said try a food change.

[Dave W]

Unfortunately I have some experience in it. My setter developed ideopathic (means they don't know why)epilepsy with cluster seizuresat about 18 months old. His seizures are grand mal, very violent. He used to have them every two weeks but now his medication keeps them at 2-3 months. This has gone on for the last two years.

You should know a couple of things, canine seizures are fairly common. The emergency vet said they see one a night average. The other thing is that when the seizures start the dog really doesn't feel anything. Its like a light goes off. When mine comes out of one he is blind and scared and very tired. Its like running a marathon. There are medications to control it, if it becomes recurrent.

Its very scary to watch and it freaks people out to see it. With mine, there is really nothing to do about it while they happen except to keep his head from banging on the ground. If yours has too many or has a series of them you can give them diazepan which will knock him out. There again mine has very bad seizures.

Let me know what questions you have. Here is a website that was helpful. http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-...CanineEpil.htm

Dave

[Bullydog]

Get to the Vet ASAP; we had a dog start doing the exact same thing several years ago. He was also 10 and it turned out to be pretty serious undiagnosed neurological issue. I won’t go into details, but it was mess. There were surgery options, albeit very expensive, so hopefully you’re dealing with B/P issue, not what ours had.

Were pulling for her !!

[Gunther]

Thanks for all the input & well wishes

I contacted a local emergency vet near our home and described in exact detail what my wife saw occur. I told the vet about the dog's current condition, lethargic and appearing winded long after the episode earlier. She explained that from all the information I had given her that I appears to be a seizure. My poor wife was concerned it was heart related and is heartbroken as Kally was our first "baby". As soon as my flight arrives at DFW I will be taking her directy to the vet to have her checked out. Unfortunately my wife is in no condition to handle this alone.

Thanks again for your help & well wishes, hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for her

[trophy8]

my moms pomeranian has them sometimes. not sure what to do. just keep him calm and relaxed.

[DaveS903]

My lab used to get them (he died a couple of years ago). They were usually brought on by excitement. We had him on daily phenobarbitol and that helped a lot. It is scary to see and it really confuses the dog. Be advised, when it happens they sometime evacuate their bladder and bowels. Your dog is probably very sore from what amounts to a full body charley horse. I just learned to live with it. He knew when one was coming on and would come to me for comfort. When I saw it coming, I got him to a soft spot and loved up on him quietly when it was over. He was always very tired afterwards. The longest was maybe 30 minutes but the average ones were maybe 20 or 30 seconds.

Dave S

[bearintex]

My last lab got them starting as a pup. We had meds for her (don't remember what, it was 13 or so years ago) that controlled them under normal circumstances. But if she got real excited, they would happen. I was never able to hunt her because of this.

[clinthwt]

My best friends Lab, my labs daddy has them. Bean is 6 years old. He has had them while on a retrieve, while breeding and just while playing. I consulted a vet on it and he seemed not all that concerned. He said it's common in dogs, as stated above. The blood test and scans are very expensive. It's a scary sight but they come thru it ok. Thats why God made them so tough, I guess.

[Johnny]

Kind of a weird question but did y'all happen to of changed your dogs brand of food recently? My mother in law's dog started having seizures pretty darn bad and very frequently. She took her to the vet and the vet asked her what brand food she was giving the dog. Apparently their was something in the dog food that was causing the seizures because as soon as she changed brands, the dog stopped having them and hasn't had one since. Weird but true. I'll ask her tomorrow what it was in the food that was causing the seizures.

[keep]

Unfortunately I have some experience in it. My setter developed ideopathic (means they don't know why)epilepsy with cluster seizuresat about 18 months old. His seizures are grand mal, very violent. He used to have them every two weeks but now his medication keeps them at 2-3 months. This has gone on for the last two years.

You should know a couple of things, canine seizures are fairly common. The emergency vet said they see one a night average. The other thing is that when the seizures start the dog really doesn't feel anything. Its like a light goes off. When mine comes out of one he is blind and scared and very tired. Its like running a marathon. There are medications to control it, if it becomes recurrent.

Its very scary to watch and it freaks people out to see it. With mine, there is really nothing to do about it while they happen except to keep his head from banging on the ground. If yours has too many or has a series of them you can give them diazepan which will knock him out. There again mine has very bad seizures.

Let me know what questions you have. Here is a website that was helpful. http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-...CanineEpil.htm

Dave

I had a brittany that had exactly what davew described. He got to where he would have then once a week. I took him to the vet and he said there was nothing he could do and he would die from it. He was right about the dying. I came home about 6 months later and he had one that what so violent and prolonged it caused him to have a heart attack and to make it worse he siezed this time on the concretd porch so he was all bloody and beat up. I found out after wards that the vet could have prescribed some meds.