You can see my dog and part of my mother in this photo here. His name is Chotu (In Hindi, it means - a little one). He got that name because he was the smallest of the litters from his mother, a pure white Pomeranian dog. (Yes, Chotu is a cross-breed).
Chotu is almost 8 years old now and has been a very active dog throughout! He loves being with my father and is almost always taken care of by my mother.
Chotu doesn't play the usual dog games like fetch and shake hands etc. (C'mon! Why would dogs enjoy doing things we ask them to do!) Chotu plays games that as a kid, I enjoyed! He'd play 'Run and Catch' (Jute, Jutis etc in local slang) in which we would take turns to catch the other one who'd be running hard! And then, the good old I-Spy (Ice Pice in local slang) where in one of our family members would hide and Chotu would search and finally find that person.
The Seizure
On monrning, my mom noticed that Chotu had wet it's bed (Yes, he's got his own basket and a bed, though it's not shown in the pic). We dismissed it thinking he might have had a nightmare just like human kids.
After a few days, he started coughing and suddenly fell down on his back. We had never seen him fall on his back ever before. I mean, he would slip a lot on our floor due to the polishing on the floor and his claws, but he'd never fall. This time, we noticed his eye balls were upwards and it wasn't responding to our calls. The next thing we guessed was that it was unconscious. After about 20 seconds, it urinated - involuntarily!
We took him to the doctor. He was also due for his yearly vaccines. After the injections, the vet asked us to carefully notice Chotu the next time some such thing happens. She specifically wanted us to notice if his limbs are stretched out and stiff during such incident.
This week, he had 3 such occurances, 2 in a single day. And yes, his limbs were stretched out and stiff and so were his jaws. It was confirmed that he had a seizure.
We took him to the same vet again and got him a dose of medicine. He will now be taking a tablet every day for the next 3 months. And the doc has said that if it doesn't recur, then we can withdraw the medication.
What, How, Why?
I'm not going to answer these questions here. Because there are plenty of articles on the net already and most of them say the same things. I found this site pretty useful. If this is the first time you're witnessing a pet seizure, I recommend you to read this site and update yourself.
Though, I wish you don't have to read it anytime!
