dog seizures

[Cliff n.]

i have a 3 yr old female that been getting seizures sinse the end of hunting season......she eats great i feed 28-21 hitek dogfood.....

i read alll the old post on this site about seizures....only came up with people use this stuff GINGKO BILOBA & RAW VEGGIES......and is there any updated stuff to use to calm them down or not have them??????? vitamins???etc...
all the stuff i read is reel old post.....

any help thanks cliff n.....

[Joeyman]

Nutri-Cal for dogs you can buy it at Petco. Small amount in the mouth. Try it




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[Chuck Terry]

Have you seen a pattern or potential trigger for the seizures? Does it happen when you walk up or at a particular time of day or when the beagle is exerting itself (etc.)? Have you made any changes in medications, wormers, feed, feed pans, or water bowl? Also, could the dog have received a head injury? If it is Epilepsy, medication is likely the only thing that will decrease the occurence of the seizures. However, I would rule out the environmental causes first. Best wishes!

[Cliff n.]

chuck terry.... the best info i have is i got her from a good friend last september/08 did not see any signs of any seizures.
she 3yrs old, looks healthy seems in good spirit, eats great outside, stays in a inside kennel with concrete pad, feed pan is old with a little rust??, i did switch over to a different dog food joy dogfood high energy,water bowl is a 2gal bucket,i was hot outside the otherday i told my son to bring her in she ran like a bolt of lighting to me,couple hours later she had a seizure, foaming mouth,shaking,stiff...10 minutes later she jumped up and back legs were still stiff..meds only thing she been getting is ivomec 20lbs worth...seem to have them in afternoon that we saw, son says she had 1 in the morning he saw.....seem to start after this hunting season.......

if u need more info let me know, thanks cliff n.

joey thanks tooo... ill check it out..

[TC]

Take your dog to the vet and have a blood work up if there is a blood infection or a brain infection or spinal infection this will bring on seizures.

[Chuck Terry]

None of those things seem out of order. TC (or JC?) is probably right a blood test might be a good idea to determine if some sort of infection caused the seizure. If so, that should be an easy fix. Some beagles have an out of the blue seizure and never have another. Some have them quite frequently with seemingly no effect on their long time, general health. I recall an incident last summer when I was running with several other guys. We had about a dozen beagles running and it was getting hot late in the morning. We caught all but five when a fresh rabbit was jumped and they ran the heck out of it. It took us 30 minutes to catch the rest of them. I grabbed my five year old male after yelling for him to "down". I don't know if it was the heat, the excitement, his frustration of being pulled from a hot race, or what but his eyes rolled back and his legs went straight like he was going into a seizure. Realizing what was about to happen, I laid him down gently in an empty compartment of on of the dog boxes and tried to keep him calm. He relaxed, came to very quickly, drank a little water, and seemed like it never happened. To the best of my knowledge, he had never had a seizure before and has never had one since. Best wishes.

[Cliff n.]

ok thanks for the help!!!

but today i was in the house and one of my male was barking like crazy so i went out to see what was going on and one of my males was trying to get up but couldnt. his back legs were stiff, just like the female..front half was fine..the back was stiff for a few minutes.. this is the second dog to do this is this a freak thing or not...

chuck terry:: also i forgor to add all my dog have ear tags on there collars, i heard different thing about different pesticide
(flea & ticks) can cause seizure.....i allways used them on my dog in the past.....

thanks cliff n.

[TC]

Some flea and tic repelant can cause seizures, but I would defenatly take one to the vet and have blood work done to see if it is some sort of infection. With two having seizures I would think there is an environmental issue, pesticide, or some thing causing this.

[Alabama John]

A tick in the right place can cause this too!