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Old 08-13-2011, 06:54 PM   #9
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I watched both your videos several times and conclude that this looks EXACTLY like what my dog, Max started doing when he was 10 weeks old. It looks like either head bobbing or focal seizures, which is what my dog was diagnosed with (idiopathic head bobbing/idiopathic epilepsy). At 10 weeks old he did this one time and I thought nothing of it. His head would "bobble" just like Roxy and would last anywhere from 2-10 seconds. He was coherent during these episodes but could not stop himself, although I felt at times like I could snap him out of it. They became more and more frequent until they started occurring about every 1/2 hour. Max would go and lay down every time after an episode.

The vet did blood work and everything came back normal. Not having a clue what was going on, we went to a specialist where they redid the blood work, did an MRI and a spinal tap. Everything came back about completely normal except for a very tiny altered part in Max's brain that showed minimal seizure activity.

I have heard that some dogs have idiopathic (for no known reason) head bobbing and sometimes grow out of it. Max has been on medicine for almost a year now and is doing great. I have many videos of my boy having his episodes which helped my vets tremendously. Your videos really look familiar to me.
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