My wife is looking at a cocker spaniel that a local rescue has. They mention he is taking meds for epilepsy. When I call about him later what do I want to ask about?
My wife is looking at a cocker spaniel that a local rescue has. They mention he is taking meds for epilepsy. When I call about him later what do I want to ask about?
have it put down before it berkeleys up the gene pool?
Ask about frequency of seizure, who the vet is, and what meds are being taken with what frequency.
My understanding the seizures are a little like building muscle. As the dog has more seizures, seizures become more likely. Generally, you'll want to get the dog on some treatment plan to keep the seizures below some limit - iirc, two a month.
Some meds can make the dog groggy. Mine is on levetiracetam, and that doesn't cause grogginess, but the dosing schedule is hard to keep up - three times a day, and no variance over an hour.
We had a miniature Dachshund for 15 years. Maggie was about 2 when we discovered her first seizures. It probably took about a year to get the dose correct. The meds were cheap, IIRC around 30 bucks a bottle. It was easy to pop a pill (phenobarbital) into her (one in the am and one in the pm).
Even on the meds, she occasionally had a seizure. She could tell they were coming and always tried to climb on your feet. Sometimes if we burned toast, she would get scared too. Other than that, she lived quite well until she passed away a couple of years ago.
If he already has the correct dose, then it should be very controllable.
I hear they rock.
And here I thought I was special with my metal legged lady. My heeler/Aussie mix has plates and screws in her rr leg
The golden retriever I had growing up had epilepsy. He was fairly well controlled with medicine. Seizures were rare, but fairly nasty. We could tell when they were about to happen and quickly moved him somewhere where he wouldn't bang into things and just made sure he didn't hurt himself. He wound up with stomach cancer at age 10, which the vet said was a common side effect of the medicine. But that was a super long time ago, so medicines are likely better now.
Teach them to shuck between fits?
It is still a crime to berkeley it.
Woman busted for selling drugs also charged with having sex with dog
If he has a seizure when no one is home is it usually a problem or do they get through it? He's going to be home a day while we are at work and as good as Ollie the wonder dog is I doubt he'd be of much help.
It's easy to teach them how to "shake".
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: It is still a crime to berkeley it. Woman busted for selling drugs also charged with having sex with dog
I was worried about the dog she was hooking up with until I saw his picture…the little gansta looks pretty "ruff".
etifosi wrote: It's easy to teach them how to "shake".
This is true and riddle me this…
What’s missing when an epileptic dog returns from fetching a stick….bark
Sorry Wally, we’ll grow up at some point.
In reply to Wally: They get through it. I would not let that worry you.
We had a cockapoo when I was in high school that had epilepsy. He would have seizures occasionally, usually when there was a lot of activity around the house. He seemed to handle them well. He would go in his cage afterwards and rest for a while, and then he was fine. I don't know if he ever had seizures while no one was around. If so, we never noticed any problems from it. I know he was on drugs of some kind but no idea what.
Very common amongst spaniels. Our Springer developed them as she aged. She had to be put down one year while we were at Mud Ohio for the Runoffs. Very sad but had to happen.
Wally wrote: If he has a seizure when no one is home is it usually a problem or do they get through it? He's going to be home a day while we are at work and as good as Ollie the wonder dog is I doubt he'd be of much help.
You may want to crate the new addition until you're sure how Ollie will react to him during a seizure.
Our male has minor seizures, so he's conscious while they're happening to him. Our female will usually bark for attention and growl at him, but she's never actually attacked him during a seizure.
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