Anyone Have or Had A Dog With Seizures
 

Does anyone have or had a dog with seizures? Our dog was laying on her bed while we were watching tv. I looked over and noticed her head was hanging off the bed. She looked like she was trying to right herself. I got down to help her and saw that her head was bobbing around, her back feet were twitching, her eyes were crazy, and you know how a dog looks when they are curled up....she was curled the wrong direction. Yikes, that was scarey. Told my husband we had to get to the emergency vet right now. About halfway there she was fine. My husband decided to go back home and to wait and see if it ever happens again. I am assuming it was a seizure. Unless someone knows what else it could be. We never experienced anything like this before. We were just wondering if anyone else had gone through anything like this?

Our 8 year old lab has had seizures that on average occur about twice a year. This started about 4 years ago. We had him checked and the only thing the vets could find was that his thyroid numbers were off and he is on thyriod medicine. I would recommend your dog be checked. Even though a seizure may only last one to three minutes or so the dog goes though a lot during the episode and a cause for them should be diagnosed. Good luck. Hope this helps.

Dog with seizures
 

my dog had two seizures after I changed his food I went back to the old food and never had another seizure I was lucky Check with your vet

Had a dog years ago who had epilepsy.

He would stiffen up, shake and his eyes would bulge - he look terrified.

We would basically comfort him and after a short time he would calm down and come out of it. He was then exhausted for the remainder of the day.

Can't recall how often this happened - it was many years ago.

I have a dog with seizures. He actually started them when we first moved here three years ago. For the most part they are under control. He is on phenobarbitol and potassium bromide as he has cluster seizures. Occasionally he relapses around stress.
If I were you, I would still take her to the vet to get her checked. Write down what happened and for how long, etc. BTW: Certain breeds have a sensitivity to Ivermectin which is in Heart Guard.

What was the new dog food?

Dog with seizures
 

It was made by Purina but I don't remember which one We now use a higher end dog food by Nutrena called Loyall We buy it at Sparks on Rt 44

Yes, Purina has had some issues.

We had a dog that had diabetes that had seizures but it was after a long illness.

Could be food, from some of the news lately. Hope that's it.

We lost a dog years ago to epilepsy. He had occasional seizures for several years, until finally he was unable to recover. It was only a couple times per year, with only slightly increasing frequency, and he lived to a reasonably decent age.

Just curious, how long has it been since your dog is back on the old food?

Our Yorkie had a seizure when she was young and it scared us. Long before we got her to emergency vet across from Leesburg airport, she came out of it. Vet advised us to put her on small dose of liquid phenobarbital. She was on it for some time and only twice afterwards did she have another episode. Since we knew what was happening we just kept her comfortable and spoke calmly and she came out of the seizure. Believe that some breeds are more susceptible to seizures.

My dog has seizures about once every three weeks. He's white and white dogs can carry a gene for seizures. He got the gene. The seizures are mild, but too frequent. The goal is once every six weeks. He is on phenobarbital and Keppra. When he has a seizure, I just pet him and talk calmly to him. Don't know what gets through to him, but it's the best I can think of. Otherwise he's a very happy active eight-year-old poodle mix.

I had a 12 year old dog who started having seizures. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
It could be something treatable or something more serious.
I agree with the recommendation to involve your Vet.

Oddly enough earlier when I responded to this post our Bailey had an episode . My wife was with him s nd I was out in the garage playing music so I didn't her yell for me. Minutes later he acts like nothing happened and joined me outside. When he experiences these spells I usually get on the floor with him and talk to him thru it. He reacts to my voice but you can tell they are confused.

Did you administer flea and or tick med recently,or had she had shots recently? One of my past dogs had a seizure like reaction to frontline plus once I bathed it off him he was fine. I've also heard of other dogs, having reactions to shots ie rabies etc even a few days afterwards. My current dog had a seizure like reaction around a year ago. The vet said could have been inner ear infection or tumor. We put her on ear meds and she has been ok since. I also have her and my other old boy on canna companion for hip spine and acl issues for the past 3 weeks. It has been reported to be good for seizure dogs and dogs w cancer and end of life care. Yes it is cannabis without the loopy stuff in it ��

Typing on my nook so excuse any grammatical errors

What an interesting dogfood. Where do you buy it? Is Canna Companion still being sold?
When I googled it, this letter popped up. Perhaps the letter is a joke? :confused:

Canna Companion LLC 2/24/15

Go to the vet. My CAT was "fainting" which led to heart problem--then she now may have cancer but due to heart problem can't operate. However she did have a SEIZURE-recently -I described it to vet and next time I am to get her to vet quickly. I also did some research on Internet--Internet said sometimes different food makes a difference -- but better to have vet aware of the problem.I read up on both dogs and cats. She is not on seizure meds--just heart meds and special prescription food. When I ran out of prescription food once and she ate other food--she started"fainting" again.

Barefoot it is a hemp supplement cannaforpets.com
Fda is trying to class it as a drug and like any supplement requires that they cannot make certain statements ..... earth pets in gainesville, fl started selling it from their store and fda had them remove it but i believe it is back on the shelves once proven that thc was not in the product. My dogs are only into their 3rd week so the jury is still out on it.

downsouth: I asked the vet a while back if I could get our dog on medical marijuana. She said not in Florida. I would so prefer to get him off the pheno and potassium bromide because it isn't great for the liver and he has such thirst he drinks all the time ergo pees all the time. I have to take him out at least twice a night. He just can't make it. It is exhausting. So if this cannaforpets works, I would really like to know so I could just wean him from drugs. Please post your findings. I am so excited!

We had an Irish Setter many years ago that would often have gran mal seizures. She was on multiple drugs (dilantin, pheno, and other seizure meds) with no change, so we took her off them. Her seizures lasted about 12 minutes, yes, very long and very intense. We would put her head in our lap so she wouldn't bang it on the floor and talk softly to her. We knew she could tell we were there. After she came out of the seizures, she would be spent for the rest of the day. No vet could find any reason for them and only one vet actually saw a seizure since she would be out of them by the time we could get her to one. Interestingly, one vet told us to put pancake syrup or karo syrup on her gums while she was seizuring. That made a huge difference. She would come out of them a little sooner and she wasn't as exhausted. He said that the body uses up a lot of glucose when it seizes so long and the syrup helped to put sugar back into the muscles quickly. I don't know if that is true, but it did make a difference for her. It was just a way of life for us and her. It's hard to watch, but you do what you have to for them.

Thanks for the information. I called the vet's office and they said keep an eye on her. She has only had one episode.

Interesting fact about the pancake syrup. Thanks for sharing.

Do any of you know what would bring on your dog's seizure?

Our Lab had seizures. Started when she was about two years old. The first one was terrifying for us and her. She actually knew when they were coming on, she would stagger (like a drunk) to one of us and collapse onto our legs and lay there until it passed. Her eyes would roll back into her head and sometimes she would fight to sit upright. We would talk her through it and stroke her body all the time. When she came out of it she would be knocked out and exhausted and would sleep for a while and then be fine. She lived to be 14 yrs old. The vet said she was not hard wired correctly!

That's basically the description of what our dog goes through on his seizures. He will rest a while like he's trying to figure out what just happened and then he gets up and go about his business. Our dog will start to come to us as well when he starts feeling it.

What brings on your dog's seizures?

YES, YES - just went through this with our Sheltie. Scared the heck out of me. Took her to the vet immediately and he said it is common for dogs to have these seizures and they just don't know why. Ran tests and could find no reason for the seizure. That was about a month ago and she has been fine ever since. Seems to happen in older dogs. My girlfriend's boxer has them all the time, especially when he has been out in the heat. Of course the tests cost a fortune but at least it didn't happen again. I wouldn't worry too much.

seizures
Been there done that.
Other than being sore the next day from beating yourself up. you're mind is basically disconnected from your body. I've never had any memory of them.
From my experience I would say it's harder for you to witness.
I hope it is the same for your dog.

Cisco Kid, Thanks. Having never been around anyone or anything that had a seizure it was very scarey to see. You wonder what they are feeling when it is going on. Thank you for sharing what you have experienced. Gives an insight to what it is like. Amazing how the brain works and how you have no memory of the seizure. Thank you for sharing.

Sent you a pm.

My dog had seizures since we moved here. We took him to the vet here in the village sand she said there are a lot of chemicals in the grasses here and that could be the culprits. He was also getting a lot of hot spots since being here,he was 13 .He was also on phenobarbital but the side effects were worse than the seizures. My dog is no longer here because his seizures were getting more and more frequente he also had a bad hip which he could no longer get up. Phenobarbital is bad for animals.

If our Irish Setter was up and/or walking, she would suddenly slump to the floor and we knew she was starting the seizure. If she was laying down, she would just start to spasm. No rhyme or reason. I cracked up when I read Madelaine Amee's hard wired comment. I shouldn't admit this, but we used to call our seizure dog "Sponge" or "Sponge Brain" because she wasn't quite wired correctly. Of course, this was with love and she would answer to Sponge as much as Amber (her name). She had a tuft of hair on her head that was curly, not typical for an Irish. We always said her brain cells weren't quite right and the hair wasn't growing right. Oh, how I miss all my setters! They were each so different and loved so much.

Our border collie had seizures and it tuned out to be a treatment they put on the lawn.

That had crossed my mind. We had stopped at someone's house earlier in the day. My dog was messing around the perimeter of the house, as was the other person's dog. I figured it was a safe area because she had her dog staked out there. After the seizure later in the day, it crossed my mind that maybe someone had sprayed chemicals either on the bushes or around the house. Just drawing at straws trying to figure out what possible things might have triggered it so we can avoid it in the future. But it sounds like some people never know what causes it.

You can ask your pesticide company what they are using and ask that they refrain from anything dangerous for dogs.

We have talked to them in the past. They say they don't use anything that will hurt pets and that it is safe once it dries. I don't believe that. So I don't let my dog go on any areas that I know have been treated in the past 2 weeks. I figure two weeks of rain and sprinklers going off will have diluted it so that it is safe. Our dog doesn't like this grass anyway, so getting her to walk in the yard doesn't work out too well anyway. My husband takes care of spraying for bugs because I am sensitive plus he doesn't want to harm the animals.