re: Dog had a seizure -- any experience with treatment?

You are NOT supposed to hold them or squeeze them during a seizure, if they need to be moved to a safe place so they don’t get hurt sure, but otherwise you need to let them have the seizure not hold or restrict them.

More stimulation is bad for them and will not reduce or stop the seizure.

I agree- supposed to leave them alone and comfort after. If epileptic, which one of my dogs was, I would watch to make sure she wasn't hurt. Sometimes the seizures were violent. She was on phenobarbital her whole life.

My min pin/dachsund mix has them sporadically. Even went so far as to do a brain MRI. Vet occasionally gives him a steroid but basically they happen so sporadically, that he is not on anything.

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Phenobarbital, my dog was on it for 14 years

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Vet (not his regular as I had to take him to an emergency clinic) said that one can have some side effects, so that's why they went with Levitiracetam (same as Keppra)... So far so good since I brought him home. Just have to give it to him every 12 hours. Going to have a follow up checkup with his primary vet in 2 weeks.

Here's Frodo taking a well-deserved nap in his favorite spot.

PS -- Nevermind, apparently I have no clue how to share a picture. Tried Photobucket and Imgur and neither worked.

I saw it mentioned earlier but I did t read all the replies but check your food. I have a 2 year old weim that has them. He was a little over 1 when he had the first one in the middle of the night and that will scare the. Hell out of you. We had taken him to the vet to get checked out. We had him for a year and no issues then out of the blue it happened. Figured may he had gotten into something. 1809 buck latter every test x ray scan all came back normal. He had one again a few months later. Then a couple more through the year. I talked to a retired vet and from what he told me, given the clean test and how he is back to normal soon after, it’s just some dogs have seizures and epilepsy. Someone had mentioned food and sure enough we looked back, and the only time he has had them was when we were feeding him some cheap shite becose we had ran out of his normal food. Hope that’s all it is and don’t want to jinx it but that seemed to be the culprit.

Phenobarbital man. My baby takes it.

My dog used to have them. They’d last for about 10 minutes and all you could do was just hold him and soothe him. Druling and stiff limbs. He was usually pretty worn out afterwards. Would have one maybe every 1-3 months. Seemingly random. Eventually after about 10 years, he just stopped having them. Never did find out the cause, or why he got better.

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Both dogs had small seizures. Never put them on medicine. If we're around when it happens, the best thing to do is to get on the floor with your dog, pick them up, put them in your lap and hold them tightly and talk to them until it's over. Seizures, even small ones, are mentally and physically disorienting.

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Same. Our 7 year old rescue mutt has them also. Dr basically said there’s really nothing you can do. When he has one, just sit there with him and try to calm him until it’s over. He has one probably once every couple of months.

He will have one, scare himself so much he will shite on the floor a little bit and once it’s done, he will go rest in his kennel for a bit and that’s that.

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Never put them on medicine. If we're around when it happens, the best thing to do is to get on the floor with your dog, pick them up, put them in your lap and hold them tightly and talk to them until it's over. Seizures, even small ones, are mentally and physically disorienting.

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All of this.