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Originally Posted by PorkysDaddy  Hello... This is my first post to Yorkie Talk, but I've been reading posts for over a year now...
My puppy, Porky, is about a year old, and Sunday night he started acting unusual... He moves his head back, kind of like if he was watching a fly go by, and then he looks forward and does the same thing again... He also trembles for a while, sometimes for 5-10 minutes... I hold him and pet him and the trembling goes away after a while. He's also breathing kind of rapidly through his nose, kind of like "sniff-sniff-sniff-sniff-sniff"... He's not playing much, but prefers to sit on the floor or couch next to me, and he's not playing with his toys much any more.
I gave him his Interceptor heartworm medication on Saturday AM, but he didn't start this behavior until Sunday night.
I took him to the vet last night and the vet told me to monitor him for the next few days. Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior? I took him for a walk before this started Sunday afternoon... Could it be from pesticides in someone's lawn? The heartworm medication? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! |
sounds like a seizure to me - they can do fly snapping as a seizure. It could be from the meds or the meds just triggered it - I would have blood work done and have bile acid tests done as the meds could have set off the liver - if you can take a video on your camera if it happens again so vet can watch behavior that would be good but at this point i would demand bats and blood work and take in a urine sample as this very well could be liver related due to age.
What percentage of protein are you feeding?
Also in the past year have u seen any strange behavior after eating ?
also try not to let him walk on grass when walking to avoid people's yards as you do not know what they are putting on them and never let him lick water off street which i am sure you do not
If alt is high it can be liver related or toxin related so the blood work will give you answers and you should have blood work done yearly anyway
Has your dog had any vaccines recently?