Poor little Robin has swollen eyelids to the point that the eyelid pimples up at different points and pops, then drains. The blue eye is much the worst, but it is happening to both of them. SOme folks on the MiniAussie list have suggested that she might have eyelashes growing inward. This seems different to me, because of the pimpling, but I will cover it with the vet this week.
Now here's the worst. Remember those 2 seizures she had as a little pup? At the time we decided they must have been caused by getting whiffs of ant killer before it had dried, and I now only kill bugs with dish soap and vinegar. And I stopped worrying.
She is now 24 weeks old, and has had a seizure on each of the last 2 evenings. The first one happened up by the chicken compound, and we thought she had been poisoned somehow because it came on so fast. One minute she was playing, then all of a sudden her foreleg drew up tight against her body and she fell over. I grabbed her up and ran down to the house and put salt down her to induce vomiting. Poor little thing barfed for an hour but then seemed to be fine.
In retrospect, I shouldn't have induced vomiting, because last night she had one while sitting in DH's chair. FIrst her eyes get wide and scared, then her foreleg draws up (the other one this time) and she fell over in the chair. I stroked and talked to her while it lasted, 60 seconds or so. Within 5 minutes she was acting perfectly normal.
THe books say that if a dog has epilepsy, seizures can be triggered by most anything, but that the seizures follow the same pattern and duration. All of these have done that. She is also in heat. I haven't had her spayed yet because I have been reading that it is better to wait until her growth plates close, especially if there is a suspicion of hip or elbow problems. So I was planning to have it done at 14 monhs, but may do it before that, say at 8-9 months, depending on other things.
One good thing. She is completely recovered from the lameness she had been exhibiting a couple of months ago. She is still reluctant to jump down from things, but doesn't exhibit any pain when she does.
Help, I have never owned a dog with so many problems. Is it because she is so small, or what? I have also read that small dogs that don't eat well are subject to hypoglycemic attacks which look similar to epileptic seizures, and at first I thought that might have been the trouble night before last, because she hadn't eaten all day, but yesterday she ate off and on all day. so that couldn't have been it.
THis is so scary. Have you ever run into anything like it?
AJ Wischmeyer, Quiltmaker
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