Wednesday afternoon my puppy started to have seizures.
It looked to me like he was shaking and his one eye was twitching very badly. I took him to the vet as soon as I noticed. The vet thought it might be marijuana toxicity or a neurological issue, took some blood to test, administered Valium and sent us home with some more Valium and charcoal.
In the evening his tremors got worse, eventually he couldn’t stand up and his breathing was laboured and irregular. My wife and I took him to the nearby emergency clinic, they kept him over night, gave him anti-seizure meds and antibiotics. The ER thought it might be an ear infection because of the way he was holding his head, tilted to the one side.
The next morning we called the clinic to see how he was doing, they said to call back in the afternoon. The clinic called my wife an hour and a half later saying that the he wasn’t responding to the antibiotics and that we needed to take him to see a neurological specialist. We went to pick him up and the clinic had increased his dosage of anti-seizure meds, because that was all they could do for him.
The neurologist examined him and said it would take further testing to figure out what it was. We discussed in detail what the tests were for and what the likely outcomes were. The likely outcome of the tests would be finding out that our poor little puppy had something terminal.
While we were at the specialist’s Gus’s seizures got worse.
We couldn’t see our poor little guy suffer any longer and putting him through 4 days of testing watching him get worse was not something we could do.
Our little Gus went to sleep Thursday afternoon.
He will always be missed.