At 01:30 PM 5/9/00 -0500, Rob Catlin wrote:
>Melissa,
>
>My Rottweiler has epilepsy, and the symptoms are exactly what you had
>described to the group. Although usually we can hear him, he also emitts
>a real foul odor (Which looks like urine, but smells REALLY bad) he also
>foams at the mouth. The worst part is when he is done with a seizure,
>he's so disoriented that he snaps and growls at anything that moves. He
>acts like he's blind, and doesn't respond to anything. But he also turns
>into the most apologetic baby in the world after he snaps "back into it."


Hi Melissa,

Welcome to the Purely Pets group. I am the List Owner. I am going to send
you an article I wrote on Epilepsy that gives suggestions on how to control
seizures naturally. If you have any questions please let me know.

>While I'm on that topic, I'd like to share his story, too.
>
>Our German Shepherd, Nero, is 10 years old, and up until April 1st, acted
>like a 1 year old puppy. That day (Saturday?) all of a sudden, he was
>holding up his right-front paw. We thought he hurt his shoulder or
>something. (He chases his tail a lot, and he and Danny, the Rottweiler,
>run into each other constantly when going outside.) Later in the day we
>found him lying on the floor, and was unable to stand, or move for that
>matter. He couldn't even raise his head.
>We took him to the emergency vet, and they told he he either has spinal
>cancer, or a bone chip from arthritis. We decided to take him to our
>"advanced" vet (we didn't even know about the holistic vet yet) and they
>recommended us to the University of Minnesota. We then took him to the
>U, and they did a slew of tests and decided they thought it was either
>spinal cancer, or some other weird disease. To find this out would be a
>$700 test, and a possible $2000 surgery to fix it. Not really in my
>budget, and if it did fix it, he would only be at 60-80% of his former
>self, probably never able to do stairs again.
>We decided that we couldn't afford that, and that he would probably be in
>a lot of pain, so we'd put him down. This was Thursday. I told a friend
>about it and he told me to take it to this vet in downtown Saint Paul as a
>last resort to see if he could do anything about it.
>We called this vet and they said they were booked for new customers until
>Mid-June. I told them he wasn't going to live that long. They took him
>immediately the next morning. This vet is a little different, but so are
>his methods. He looked him over and said, "He's got a couple of popped
>discs, yeast in his system, and a parasite."
>We've been taking him in every 7-10 days since (We are now in week 4 of
>this) and he can now move his head, neck, and legs, lay in an upright
>position, and roll over. He is still unable to stand, but he is now on
>some muscle rebuilding medicines to see if we can't get him to stand up.
>It's amazing. It really is! What this doctor has done for us is beyond
>expression. The funny thing is that his visits are cheap. Usually
>$20-$30, which is much more affordable...


Believe it or not, that happens a lot. I am very surprised that the
traditional vet did not know it was a slipped discs because as you were
describing the symptoms that is the first thing I thought of. There are so
many pets suffering from serious illness due to parasites and yeast. These
two problems are the most common I deal with.



Darleen E. Rudnick http://www.purelypets.com
Nutritional Pet Consultant, Purely Pets
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