My nearly 14 year old mini schnauzer just had what looked like a seizure at home. She was laying down, asleep on the sofa and I thought she was just scrabbling to get up but it was odd - she wasn’t glazed and unfocussed like my old dog who had many seizures. Her legs were flailing like a goat who can’t get up?
I put her down and she was all wobbly and couldn’t hold herself up. Got her to emergency vets and he checked her all over within an hour of this episode was about to go home when she had another one. Vet took her out back and said it was over almost immediately after he took her out.
She’s staying in overnight - they’ll do tests and observe.
Vet went thru lots of scenarios - the most hopeful one is ingesting something toxic but there’s been an hour between each episode so far - and he said that’s very odd if it is a toxin.
I really want it to be a toxin as all other scenarios are so worrying. Has anyone got any experience of knowledge of a toxin reaction coming in waves?
I haven’t stopped crying, she’s my best friend and such an odd, funny little dog. I just don’t want her to suffer and I don’t want to lose her, we’re so lucky we still have her at this ripe, old age - she has kidney disease, arthritis, kissing spine and thyroid disease and she’s still going great guns - some people think she’s a puppy! You’d never know she has all those ailments, she’s so tough. I just thought she’d be with us for a long time beating all the odds.