Both pups having seizures

[Kirene]

Hello everyone,

I have posted before about 1 of my pups having seizures. Truvie had a mild one, then a major one. After the major one we took her to the vet. After an exam and blood work he couldn't find anything wrong with her.

On Monday our other pup Maddy had a mild seizure, and then another one last night (Tuesday). Truvie had a 3rd seizure yesterday as well.

The vet is stumped as to why this is happening. I have contacted the Tulsa Boxer Rescue where we got the pups and none of their 9 litter mates are having problems so it's my opinion that there is something within our home or backyard that they are being exposed to. The problem is we can't figure it out.

At first we thought it might be a lantana plant, but we removed it on Sunday. We have Alaleas as well but they are never allowed in the backyard alone and they NEVER get into the Azaleas. We have plans to go ahead and remove them, but we know that can't be causing the problem because they are not allowed in that area.

The house is puppy proofed, they cannot get into any cleaning chemicals or trash. They only eat dog food, they are not allowed to eat scraps. We feed them Pedigree puppy food.

We don't spray our backyard with chemicals, we don't use powders or toxic chemicals on the carpet. We use a pet friendly cleaner in our steam cleaner purchased from Petsmart. I haven't steamed cleaned the carpet in a week and between them they have had 3 seizures (that we know of) since that time.

I am at a loss. I don't know what to do. The vet doesn't know why this is happening either. Since their litter mates are having no problems I can only assume it is something in and around our house but I have no clue as to what it might be. They are scheduled to get spayed tomorrow and I'm worried that this might cause complications.

Does anyone have ANY thoughts? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, we are so worried about our fur babies. By the way they are 3 months old tomorrow.

 

[Draymia]

I don't have a lot of suggestions, but one thought is are your neighbors spraying their yards or grass? One of my puppy buyers had their seven year old dog suddenly start with seizures and bad liver counts. They finally did find out that neighbors on both sides had had their grass treated on the same day. Of course the company said it would not hurt pets??? The dog took almost two months for the seizures to stop and his liver to get back to normal.

I think I would hold off on the spaying until you figure this out. No reason to stress their little bodies until this gets figured out.

 

[Kirene]

yard spraying

I don't know if the neighbors spray their yard, but Truvie's blood work came back normal. Wouldn't they be able to detect that?

Ki

 

[lafsalot]

I only wish I had a pat answer for you with regards to the cause of your pups seizures. Our Mya (now crossed over) developed epilepsy soon after she was vaccinated. Hope your two furbabies feel better soon. - Cathy Here's a little info I copied and pasted from another site:

When seizures occur in dogs that are less than one year of age, there is a
stronger chance that the seizures are secondary to another cause than when
seizures occur in dogs between one year of age and five to seven years of age.

There are a number of causes of secondary seizures in young dogs. In a
rough order of probability, they include brain abnormalities such as
hydrocephalus, canine distemper infection, parasitism (roundworms,
toxoplasmosis), portosystemic shunts (blood shunted past the liver), low
blood sugar (usually small dogs),trauma (hit by car, electric
shock), primary epileptic seizure disorders, lead poisoning, drug
reactions, organ system disease (liver storage disorders, kidney failure),
allergies (somewhat controversial as a cause of seizures but there are a
couple of fairly well documented anecdotal reports for this).