Re: [pyrnet] seizure question

[Alison Chorney <alison_chorney@yahoo.com>]

I too, have had to deal with seizures, however my 
"experience" did not end well.  My 13 month old Pyr
began to have seizures shortly after his first b-day
for no known reason.....we had a toxicology screen
done to make sure that he had not gotten into
anything, but this came back negative.  He was not
stressed in any way.   His seizures progressed and
worsened to the point were he no longer regained
consciousness between seizures.  He went into an
epileptic emergency and for him it was fatal.  I had
to make the decision to put him down.  His seizures
were so long and severe that his body temperature had
risen and was starting to damage his internal organs.
I was told that like a person, dogs can have seizures
start just "out of the blue".  A seizure is a
"mis-firing of electrical impulses in the brain" and
this can happen to anyone, at any time...this is
epilepsy when it happens often and for no known cause.
 Tests can be done to measure the electrical impulses,
but these are fairly expensive.  Seizures can be
controlled by some anticonvulsants, Phenobarb, for one
or an emergency supply of Diazapam may be issued by
the vet for home use.  I was told that because Merlin
was young, that the seizures would be hard to control
due to the amount of brain growth that still needed to
occur.  If you would like to send me a private e-mail,
I would be more than happy to answer any other
questions for you.

Alison Chorney
Chorney Kennels Reg'd
Timmins, ON

--- smaturo@teamcompass.com wrote:
> 
> Hello all.  My husband and I have quite the weekend
> as far as our pyr-kids
> go!  Any information you all might have is greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> This weekend, my husband and I kenneled our dog
> Dexter for the first time
> since we rescued him 5 months ago.  He's been really
> well adjusted for
> about 4 months now and really didn't think too much
> about kenneling him
> except for the guilt of leaving them.  We even went
> away for a weekend here
> and there and he's been fine, but we had always left
> him with our cousin.
> We checked out the kennel after it came recommended
> by our vet.  We found
> it was very clean and the people seemed pretty
> knowledgeable about the care
> of dogs.
> 
>  We received a call Saturday morning from the kennel
> stating that Dexter
> had 2 seizures over the course of 2 hours.  We
> released them to take him to
> our vet.  We then spoke with our vet and she said he
> now has epilepsy and
> that it can be brought on by stress.  We picked our
> guy up Sunday evening
> to hear that he had 4 more seizures over the course
> of the weekend and that
> they were getting worse with each one.
> 
> He has been fine since we picked him up.  He was a
> bit agitated last night
> and ate/drank a ton, but we felt this was normal. 
> Our question is, could
> he possible have stressed himself out so much that
> he had seizures?  Or,
> was this something that would have happened no
> matter where he was?  Also,
> could he have gotten into something at the kennel
> that maybe brought this
> on?  Can epilepsy just start like that in dogs?  I
> know this may sound like
> 20 questions, but we were pretty floored when the
> kennel called to tell us
> this.
> 
> Dexter apparently had one seizure on record prior to
> our getting him after
> being dropped off at the rescue.  He was severely
> malnourished and his
> organs were shutting down.  The rescue people told
> us they attributed the
> seizure to that.  It has been a year between
> seizures and he was never
> medicated for them.
> 
> Again, if anyone has any insight into puppy
> epilepsy, we would appreciate
> it.  Thanks to all the great posters!  It makes for
> a great list and a
> great resource.
> 
> Stephanie, Ed, and Dexter
> 
> 
> 
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