Healthy Pets

[Arwen]

Originally Posted by Dude

No sooner had we got home from Austin on sunday that our little chihuahua/shitzu two year old started having a seizure.
She has had about 5 in her lifetime now.
This one and the one previous (4 mnths ago) continued until we got her to emergency vet for a shot of valium.
We took her to our vet yesterday and are waiting on blood work to come back.

I thought it was worth a shot to see if anyone here has gone thru this with such
a young dog.

So sorry to hear about your baby's illness, Dude. That's scary.

I did know a few dogs (grooming clients and friends' dogs) that were epileptic at a young age. One of them was known to be a case of in-breeding (brother/sister combination.) The others we did not know about.

The triggers seemed to be overstimulation much like in children. When the dogs were stressed or tired, a seizure could happen.

One was a food allergy of all things. Dog reacted to carrots.