Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Seizures in dogs can have many different causes. Diagnosing seizures in a dog isn’t always straightforward. Veterinarians use the term epilepsy to describe any illness that causes recurrent seizures. That is, however, different from inheritable idiopathic epilepsy which is a seizure disorder with an unknown cause. Above all, assuming the cause cannot be known is that an identifiable problem might…
Every first-time seizure should be treated as an emergency. If you have a dog diagnosed and medicated for epilepsy, they might still get a seizure from time to time. If the seizure passes quickly, given you already know what is going on, such an event might not be an emergency. That is a different situation if your dog starts convulsing…
Atypical seizures describe episodic focal motor events. Canyon’s episodes were nothing if not strange. Thank you, Brook, for sharing Canyon’s story. Canyon’s story Our dogs had their annual check-ups with Dr. B. Canyon was first. He had two years of good titers, so Bianca said we could skip them this year. She then asked us if we have any concerns…