*** 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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