I woke up CRYING!!!!
 

Around 2am, I woke up with Prince cuddled up close to me. I pet him for about 15 minutes before I noticed he wasn't responding. I started banding his knees but they would just pop right back up..STIFF! I put my hand over his face to feel for breath...but I felt NOTHING!

I JUMPED UP and woke up my fiace, who started shaking him....he lifted him into his arms and yelled "PRINCE WAKE UP...NO....PRINCE GET UP!!!" still, he didn't move..

Finally, after about 8 minutes of shaking him and yelling, he looked up and kissed my fiance. Anfy (my fiance) then haded him back to me (I was frantic of course) and he kissed me all over. It took me about 3 hours to fall back asleep after that because I was so scared.

Do any of you have yorkies that sleep so deep its LITERALLY like waking the dead? I've never seen him do this and it really freaked me out. I was crying like a crazy woman.

He gave me the scare of my live.

NO! thats pretty strange,... I know if Bailey is asleep or tired, but not like that,, I would have freaked too! Maybe he was in his DEEP deep sleep?? who knows?!

It was horrible. I was crying so hard. Im surprised I didn't wake my kids.

His body was limp (except for his legs which were straight as a board). He was flopping all over the place when Andy picked him up..

I don't know what id do if I lost one of my babies.

Now, I am a VERY deep sleeper myself, but lets be real. If someone were to swing me around, shake me hard, and yell, I think I would wake up pretty quick.

I've never seen him do this and I dont wanna see him do it again.

WOW - that's a sound sleeper - mine have never done that but I would call your vet and make an appointment asap

I may just do that.

After he woke up he was fine, but I wasn't I was shaking. He's runing around like a mad man now (his usually hyper self).

Sounds like an epileptic seizure. My male shep has it. You should call your vet and tell them what happened. Get a notebook and record every occurance. Most seizures occur while the animal sleeps so they do go unnoticed.

OH MY, I hope not. This has never happened before. Im up all hours of the night getting a glass of water, using the rest room, checking on the pups, and each time he jumps up and follows me. This time he was REALLY asleep.

Im gonna call the vet and see what she says... oh how scary!!!!!

I agree with Debr, I would check with the vet and keep records. My sisters dog, scruffy, has epilepsy, takes meds and it is fine, mostly scary, but there are precautions to take. I will check with my sister and see what she thinks.

GOOD luck !! It's always better to be safe than sorry - and I hope it's nothing ...please try not to worry yourself silly until you see the vet...but I know I would be also - it really could just be something simple - good luck again -

Zsa Zsa have been diagnosed to have Necrolepsy . It a problems of sleeping .She have the same symptoms as your little one . Every time she does it , I totally panick even if I know . This morning I was trying to have her wake up .
You can look under necrolepsy , to see if it is what the pup went through .
As the others told you , have him check by your vet . Epilepsy , its not the same symptoms .

I thought the same thing either a seizure or his sugar too low? Good luck but definetly call your vet.

8 minutes of yelling and shaking and no response; that's a long time! Sorry to say this but it sounds like more than just a deep sleeper. I would get him checked out. I hope it's nothing. Good luck!

Ok, I just called the vet. She was VERY helpful and took the time to explain things to me. She said to keep a journal of this. If it does happen again that it may be a seizure, but its possible he was just really, really tired.

She did tell me though that she's never heard of a dog dying from seizures but never say never.

Prince has an appointment on June 20th so they said when I bring him in they will give him a full exam. It's nothing to stress right now since there isn't a pattern yet. It's only once and it could be nothing.

I am taking Angel in today though because she is still bleeding from birthing pupus and its been 20 days. They said they will examine her and give her a shot of oxytocin and probably some antibiotics as well. The bleeding should stop after a week.

Oh, what a day this is turning out to be...

That must be so stressful. I can't imagine how you feel. I am so overprotective of Coco. I don't know what I would do if that happened to me. I would probably have a seizure myself. But glad he's ok. Don't you love how they just wake and think, "What is going on, why everyone so frantic? Did I do something?"..haha..

LOL that was his reaction. HE was like "what? why the hell are you shaking me and yelling? What did I do?" lol

He seems fine but im gonna keep an eye on him. Hopefully this NEVER happens again!

I'm glad he is ok!! Keep a close eye on him & give him lots of love!

I am glad hes okay too. That would scare me terribly!!! My dogs are sound sleepers but not that sound.

Scary indeed.

I just want to mention that the next time this occurs, open the eyelids and check for eye movement. If they are moving, he is in deep sleep. Listen for a heartbeat.

i had a rottie that did that once sebastain was barking like crazy and would not stop so i got up to see what was up Nala my rottie was laying in the hall and he was barking at her right in her face i said Nala whats wrong she didnt move i put my hand on her ribs and shook her she still didnt move i yelled her name again and again and when i touched her she felt stiff and cold i freaked out and started crying and yelled to my son OMG nala is dead he came out of his room and said nala and she looked up at him i couldnt beleive it i was so upset. After everything calmed down a little i thougth geez what would i have done with an 80 pound dog at 3am :confused:

please, keep us posted,, after you take him to vet on the 20th , to let us know what they say!!

Glad he's ok, please keep us updated on his condition.

his legs going straitgh,stiff were the key words signaling possible epilepsy. Sounds like was a petit mal seizure. Joker has grand mal's he began them at 10months old, thankfully weve only had 3 seizures so far. My vet did inform me-epilepsy isnt known to kill dogs but they can go into a seizure and not come out. In that case he has to go get a shot. Once he reaches 1 seizure a month he will be put on phenobarbitol. Epilepsy is bad breeding-it is heriditary and bred in.

He seems fine now. The vet said it could be anything from him sleeping very heavy (he did play a LOT yesterday) to sleep apnea (sp).

She told me to keep a journal if this should happen again. Then from there we can diagnose what it is and fix it.

As far as angel...well...it seems she had a slight infection. They said its nothing to stress over. Something with her mammory glads (which doesnt explain why she is still bleeding...not to me anyway), but they gave her a shot of oxytocin and some antibiotics.

Before I left I asked "will she be ok in the car? I have to stop a few places on the way home." The vet said "yes she'll be fine. LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR!

My mother in law (who's van we were in) and I went in to pick up my som from school. When we cam out, it looked like angel exploaded from her rear end. There was poop all over the windows, windshield, radio, seats, floor, etc and boy did it stiny.

It was all mushy but not quite diarreah. Soon after that (once we got it as clean as possible) she was vomitting over and over again. Now that we're home she's fine but I am calling my vet to complain. I was told she would be fine but isntead the opposite happened.

Now I have to pay to get my in-laws fan cleaned and im gonna make it known to the vet!!!

The puppies have been doing really well with the puppy food/esiblac(sp) mix. They seem to love it. Although, the biggest one (the mamma's boy) doesn't eat a lot of it. He wants mommy. So, I may just bottle feed him for now and ween him from that.

Is that ok to do?

The same thing happened to my mom. Riley had just gotten his rabies shot and was kind of lethargic and sick. She woke up in the middle of the night and Riley was laying on his back with his legs straight up in the air. She couldn't feel him breathing or anything. She kept rubbing him and trying to wake him up, and finally it worked! She was very upset! We know how you feel!

My first experience with this was when I found Max at the foot of our waterbed under the covers - and yes he gave me a fright after that I never let him sleep under the covers again. He now sleeps at the foot of the bed on a ottoman under his own blankets. It sure seems like a long time when they don't respond on contact.

Oh wow - poor babies - You've sure had a tough day ! I really hope it doesn't happen again ..that had to be the scariest thing to see - Glad your vet visit went well but sorry about the car - I bet that wasn't fun either -

and I used to think I had a crappy car ?

My shihtzu (fitz) has done that a time or 2 . He was having night terrors . He would just start crying out and then go limp . And it would take us several mins. to wake him. One was so bad he pooped all over himself . Our vet checked him for everything and said all it could be was nightmares . He is 8 years old now and still has a nightmare from time to time . But they are not near as bad . Now its a bark or a wine nonthing more .

My gosh...how awful scary that had to be! I'm so glad to see that he's okay and hopefully it won't happen again! Sorry to hear about the mess in the car...if it isn't one thing, it's another, huh?

OMG , oh dear I would probably react the same way. The worst thing is that I dont have the emergency number to the emergency vet. I have to get it from my vet! My vet is like 3 min away from my home but the emergency is about 20 minutes away. I would probably end up getting stopped by the cops for running red lights to get to the vet! I could imagine the cops calling for backup because I refuse to pull over! lolAfter reading this thread I am deffinately going to call my vet in the morning to get the emergency number.
Please keep us updated when your furbaby gets his checkup.

Genie