So, we woke up on Saturday morning with out adorable beagle/cocker spaniel mix having a seizure on our bed. She was lying between my husband and I and next thing I new he jumped out of bed saying "crap; mia's having a seizure". I sat up, looked at the dog, glanced at him frozen at the end of the bed, and picked up the dog and placed her on the floor.
It lasted about 3 minutes which I think is pretty average for her. She seems to have one every 4-6 months. This time at least, not everything came leaking out of her (if you can read between the lines). The vet doesn't want to put her on medication until the seizures become much more frequent and she suffers some longer term neurological damage from them. Right now, she just becomes blind for a while and walks around like a caged animal bumping into everything.
Mia was a rescue animal that we adopted almost 2 years ago and we knew she had vision problems when we adopted her. Unfortunately, we didn't know about the seizures... that might have made a difference at the time but we couldn't exactly bring her back after, could we?
The vet did a full neurological workup and blood tests after the first seizure and could come up with no medical reason. But there are two theories:
1) heredity: some breeds of cocker spaniels are prone to seizures
2) trauma
We've often wondered where she can from and are sort of balanced in the middle of the two theories. The vet seems to be leaning towards trauma - she also has signs of having had babies and she was just over a year old when we adopted her.
Oh well. she recovered well although the vision in her left eye is completely gone and has been since the last seizure, she was back to her normal behaviour by mid-afternoon... the joys of parenthood:)
'til next time.
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