What is wrong with Zero?

[Cowpuncher]

Our ranch neighbors have a huge dog named Zero -- apparently after the extraordinarily blank lood he has on his face most of the time. The dog is quite large - about twice the size of an ordinary German shepard - although marked the similarly.

Anyway, Zero, who is only for or five years old at the most has developed a problem. He will be running around like he owns the world, then collapse and go into convulsions, quivering and foaming at the mouth. He will lay like that for a few minutes, then look up as if nothing had happened and go on with his day.

They don't have the money to go to a Vet and the nearest one is 50 miles away. Zero usually has a malodorous air about him so taking him far in a car is out of the question.

What will become of him? Will he continue with these seizures for a while or will one of them do him in?

 

[Jinglebob]

James Herriot talked about a dog with similar symptoms, in one of his books. I think the dog had either swallowed a marble or a small ball, that was rattling around somewhere in his throat. When he got active, the object got stuck in his throat and cut off his wind. Might be something like that.

My wife has a Yorkie, who has some fits once in a great while. We think it is epilepsy. I'm not sure if there is anything that can be done for it.

Hope they get it figured out.

 

[greenbroke]

had a beagle do that on me once. the vet said it had worms. must have been migrating through the brain.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

If it turns out a dog has epilepsy, they can be treated. My MIL's dog has it and has to be medicated. The two most common medications to treat are
Phenobarbital and Potassium Bromide. Both of which are relatively affordable. Monthly cost for medications for a dog are usually between 10 and 20 dollars a month.

 

[Charlie]

Good luck with zero. We had a border collie that was and awesome working dog that tangles with a skunk in daylight. He jumped between me and a skunk coming toward me. He was current on all his rabies shots, but a year or so later, he also started to drool and act strange. His balance was off. Don't know if it was related to the skunk incidence or not. It affected the mylin sheath over the nerves in the brain. His looked too much like rabies that we had to put him down.

his sounds more like epilepsy so hopefully you should be ok :???: