Our nearly 14 year old German Shepherd Averi may have come down with this over the weekend. This is a very scary disease that effects mostly older dogs. I had never heard of this until now and spent a lot of time researching it these last few days.
Without going too far into detail it's basically a disease that looks like the dog has suffered a stroke (but hasn't) as they lose their balance, tilt their head to the side, drool a lot, have rapid eye movement, vomit, etc... Though very scary to see your dog go through this, it is for the most part not a life threatning situation.
The vet has ran lots of x-ray and blood tests and so far everything has come back fine (thankfully). If this doesn't improve in the next few days then we will take her in for a skull x-ray to see if anything is going on there but for now it looks more like she has vestibular syndrome. She is not crying at all or appears to be in any pain, she just can't stand up or walk right now as her balance is completely off.
Was wondering if anyone here has went through something like this with their dog or knows someone who has?
Thanks for sharing!!!
Without going too far into detail it's basically a disease that looks like the dog has suffered a stroke (but hasn't) as they lose their balance, tilt their head to the side, drool a lot, have rapid eye movement, vomit, etc... Though very scary to see your dog go through this, it is for the most part not a life threatning situation.
The vet has ran lots of x-ray and blood tests and so far everything has come back fine (thankfully). If this doesn't improve in the next few days then we will take her in for a skull x-ray to see if anything is going on there but for now it looks more like she has vestibular syndrome. She is not crying at all or appears to be in any pain, she just can't stand up or walk right now as her balance is completely off.
Was wondering if anyone here has went through something like this with their dog or knows someone who has?
Thanks for sharing!!!