*** Quoting Janis Kracht from a message to Mike Roberts ***

 > Does or has anyone had experience with their pets and seizures?

 JK> Actually, yes, two of mine have had them.. One was a cocker spaniel,
 JK> the other was a black lab purebred (pricilla's sister).

Thanks for the response, Janis.. One of our boys ( a Pug ) has had them. To 
date it has only been 3 in almost 5 years. First time he was about 2+. I 
never had had an animal with seizures, so it was new to me. He just looked a 
bit like he was tripping. Then he started squirming around. The other little 
nut ( his brother ) actually noticed it before I did, he was on him like 
white on rice. I pulled him off, and I panicked, didn't know if it was a 
stroke or heart attack or what. Took him to 24hr emergency vet and they 
checked him out and sent him home. He appeared to be fine. They did not say 
much and said "it happens". Last November a day or so after his annual 
checkup, the next day he had another one. Took him to his own Dr. and they 
said he was fine, and since he had not had any in over a year, there was not 
much that should be done at this time. Last night, we put him in his crate. 
Normally, even though they are bed hogs, they sleep on the bed, but we let 
him sleep in his crate as my back was off a bit and I wanted freer movement.
He yapped and cried and whined for about 15 minutes. Then I heard a thrashing 
in the crate, Jumped up, turned the light on and the poor thing was flopping 
around in the cage like he was possessed. The only thing both dr.s said, was 
that You just got to let it happen. ( I dunno, it is just scary to watch, but 
there does not seem like much You can do ) I finally got him out of his crate 
as I feared the uncontrollable flopping was going to cause him to get stuck 
as he had no control. About 10 minutes later, he hopped up in bed and went 
to sleep, like nothing happened. As scary as it was, he seemed fine.

 JK> The cocker spaniel wouldn't reconize anyone in the family, would
 JK> freak out at everything around him, and attack anyone or anything
 JK> that tried to get close.. TheVet said he must have suffered from a

Aww the poor thing... Simon does not get violent, but his body sure does. 
thrashing and contorting in all different ways.

 JK> 'touch of disentery', very common in those puppy mills where this boy
 JK> was from most likely  (he was "marked down" at the pet store on the

See.. My doctors that I had taken him to, had no answers for why this 
happens. The above is interesting. Other than the seizures he is healthy as a 
horse. That is one of the reasons I posted. I still don't really understand 
them, what causes them and how they progress, do they get worse, more 
frequent and now I hear from You that there are regular meds he may have to 
take.

 JK> in a strange trance, certain colors set him off big time (who would
 JK> have thought THAT would matter).

Hmmm, I see.. I wondered to myself if it was caused last night by the stress 
of wanting to sleep in the bed rather than the crate. He is fine in the 
crate, they love their own little space and do fine during other times in the 
crate, but I just thought maybe the stress from the fact he did not have 
blankets set him off  I kid, but am serious too.

 JK> the attacks was Pricilla's sister, Midnight.  She would be sitting or
 JK> sleeping on the bed orthe couch and just fall off it, and seizures
 JK> would follow that involved jumpy legs, more physical than the cocker

That sounds closer to what Simon is going through. At least the first two 
times. He was actually sleeping next to me on the couch while I was watching 
TV, and Bam!

I also notice for days afterward, he sits and looks up in the air like he is 
watching birds fly over his head, like he actually sees something in the air, 
but nothing happens. Thankfully.

 JK> She also was on dilantin for a while.. but she's the one who was so
 JK> overly nervous... she escaped the fenced in yard and was hit by a
 JK> truck in Louisville.. poorbaby.

Aww.. I know the feeling. Almost every one of my dogs have gotten out at one 
time or another. The first thing I worry about is them getting hit, then 
lost, then picked up by somebody and taken away. In fact Simon got through 
the side of the fence a couple of weeks ago. LoCi was barking, I went out and 
said, hey where is Your brother? I looked down and say he had actually 
wiggled through where the neighbors fence and ours hit a 90 degree angle. 
Talk about stress, I am running all over the neighborhood, asking if he had 
been seen. Literally broken hearted and about to give up, I walk past my 
front Yard and he is sitting with the little pit bull next store. I coulda 
shouted for joy, but then there he is spotting me and almost runs right out 
in the road. It was almost a bad ending to a happy moment.

Thanks, for the reply again. I think when I go next month for their annuals 
that I will discuss this in more detail. I have been feeling like I was in 
the dark on this, it hasn't happened that often, but I am a little concerned 
as they seem to be a bit more violent each time.

Thanks Janis!

Have a Good One!
Mike

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