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My names in Melissa and my baby is Kelsey. She's a two year old (well, will be 2 on the 10th) deaf dalmatian. I adopted her when she was 3 months old. I claim Pennsylvania as my US home, but currently we're living (and I'm working - Kelsey is hanging out) in Skopje, Macedonia. Before this we lived in Azerbaijan. I've joined your group because recently Kelsey had what several people tell me sounds like a seizure so I am checking out information about it. We haven't seen a vet yet, this happened on a holiday weekend and she was fine after about an hour or two. She may have had one a couple of months ago as well.
Here's what happened:
On Saturday(April 29th), Kelsey woke up like usual, moved to snuggle between 6 - 6:45, then got out of bed as usual. At that point she usually bugs me until I finally get up, but this time she didn't. A little while later I smelled something and thought she might have gotten sick so jumped out of bed. Kelsey was lying on the floor. She had had an accident, pooped and peed in the bedroom (which she Never does), but it was really weird because it looked as if either (1) she did it then lied down immediately where she was - not moving away from it or (2) she did it while she was lying down and didn't move away from it. That itself was a little unnerving, but it got worse, because she seemed a little disoriented and a unsteady when she got up. I cleaned everything up - she just lied there, and then we went downstairs. She was a little unsteady -- no where close to her usual rushing around, bouncing around - and when we got there, she just lied on the floor full out, no interest in the food, though she did finally drink a little water. I picked her up and sat in the chair holding her for a while, other than not acting like her normal self she didn't seem too bad - actually, after the first little while, if anyone else had seen her they would have thought she was just a calm, quiet dog - that was the worst part, she was not acting at all like her normal self. (Kelsey is a little cyclone around the house) I was planning to try to find a vet if she seemed worse or didn't seem better after a couple of hours, but within a short time she was paying attention to things again, then she was up and about, ate her food and went outside to explore the yard as usual. It was a holiday weekend so the vets were on "emergency only" duty - and since she was acting normal again, I decided not to take her. She's been fine since then. Wednesday was the first work day after the holiday, and I assumed that it wasn't worth taking her to the vet then - that whatever it was would probably be undetectable now. There was nothing new in her environment, food, etc before this happened, nothing different that I could pinpoint.
So, that's our story. I don't know for sure that it is epilepsy, and if it is, it's still in the few and far between stage, but I want to find out as much as possible now.
Melissa
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Melissa Brill
Program Officer
Institute for Sustainable Communities
Skopje, Macedonia
Tel: +389 91 114-855
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