Our emergency trip to the Vet
Last Thursday, Daisy gave us quite a scare.
At a little after three in the afternoon, I was hanging some wind chimes, and Steph was investigating our new walkway when she said that Daisy was having "trouble". I stepped down from the bench and saw Daisy walking on the back porch in an unusual way. She seemed to be having spasms in her back legs.
I thought at first that it was muscle cramps. I bent over to check on her, and she kind of collapsed onto me. I immediately got down on the concrete and let her into my lap. She was shaking and twitching in her hind legs quite badly at this point. The thought went through my mind at this point that she might be having a mild seizure.
Steph went inside to call the vet, and I brought Daisy in the house. She kind of perked up, and tried to walk around, but her walking was erratic and she was stumbling. When Steph got the vet's office on the phone they said that it could be a number of things. At one point, Daisy was kind of walking bow-legged, and I thought, "maybe she's got some GI problem" To avoid a possible accident in the house, I took her out to the front porch.
Soon after this, she started staggering really bad, like she was at first. Then, she finally collapsed on the welcome mat. At this point, her whole body was twitching, but not violently. I don't think she ever lost consciousness, and the really bad part only lasted a few seconds. When she stopped twiching so badly, we immediately loaded her and Lily up and went to the vet.
He said that she did indeed have a seizure. He also said that it may never happen again, or it may escalate into more serious seizures where she loses consciousness for about 30 seconds at a time. Since seizures are not as dangerous in dogs as in humans, we are not giving her any medication right now. We are keeping a close eye on her to see if it ever happens again.
At a little after three in the afternoon, I was hanging some wind chimes, and Steph was investigating our new walkway when she said that Daisy was having "trouble". I stepped down from the bench and saw Daisy walking on the back porch in an unusual way. She seemed to be having spasms in her back legs.
I thought at first that it was muscle cramps. I bent over to check on her, and she kind of collapsed onto me. I immediately got down on the concrete and let her into my lap. She was shaking and twitching in her hind legs quite badly at this point. The thought went through my mind at this point that she might be having a mild seizure.
Steph went inside to call the vet, and I brought Daisy in the house. She kind of perked up, and tried to walk around, but her walking was erratic and she was stumbling. When Steph got the vet's office on the phone they said that it could be a number of things. At one point, Daisy was kind of walking bow-legged, and I thought, "maybe she's got some GI problem" To avoid a possible accident in the house, I took her out to the front porch.
Soon after this, she started staggering really bad, like she was at first. Then, she finally collapsed on the welcome mat. At this point, her whole body was twitching, but not violently. I don't think she ever lost consciousness, and the really bad part only lasted a few seconds. When she stopped twiching so badly, we immediately loaded her and Lily up and went to the vet.
He said that she did indeed have a seizure. He also said that it may never happen again, or it may escalate into more serious seizures where she loses consciousness for about 30 seconds at a time. Since seizures are not as dangerous in dogs as in humans, we are not giving her any medication right now. We are keeping a close eye on her to see if it ever happens again.
posted by jigawatt at 9:59:00 PM
4 Comments:
what kind of dog is she? we had a cocker spaniel that did the SAME thng! very scary/strange with the hind leg thing. he would try to walk and just keep falling. we did end up having to treat him for epilepsy though.
We think Daisy is mostly border collie. Do you still have your dog?
i was hoping you wouldn't ask me that! the vet said that epilepsy was really common in cockers, we kept having to up his meds. but the siezures continued to worsen (over years). so we did have to put him to sleep. other factors in that too were that we had aaron job. he was 1 then and we knew he'd get really attached to this dog who was getting sicker and not ever going to get better. this may just be a one time thing. i had NEVER heard of a dog having epilepsy until this!
If I remember correctly, the epilepsy found in cockers is often because they are bred too close (within the same family, I assume).
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