It's been another busy, busy day in my family household. We closed out the day going to my kid's school to welcome home the Arizona State 1A Women's Basketball State Champions! (Go Knights!)
When we got home, I did my normal getting the kids ready for baths and fed our two dogs, Aspen and Maggie. Aspen is our old guy - he's 15 years old and every time I come home from work or being away for any extended time, I check on him to make sure he's still with us...he's that old...
Maggie is our sweet and smart golden retriever puppy (she's our 10 month old girl) who has become a major fixture in our household with her energy, affection and (yes) destructiveness. My kids just adore her.
Well, after feeding the dogs, I let Maggie out of her cage (where she eats) and she made her usual beeline to the closed door of the room where Aspen was eating. While I saw all this happening, I noticed that Maggie was sitting down at an awkward angle and that her eyes were rolling in the back of her head with the inner eyelid showing on over half of her eye. And her head looked like it was being forced upward.
At first I thought she was in the middle of an ecstatic smelling spell over Aspen's food, but then I realized she must be convulsing in some way. I went to her and petted her. I was thinking she might be choking, so I took her collar off (even though there wasn't any coughing or anything like that).
Now I'm thinking it was some kind of seizure and wondering if it wasn't epileptic. She recovered wonderfully from this episode (but it sure scared the kids and unnerved me a bit as well). She's resting quietly now at my feet here at the computer like she normally does.
I'll keep an eye out for her and probably take her into see the vet this week.
Maggie has wrapped her golden little tail around my family - I hope and pray that it just is a one time thing, or a simple case of dog epilepsy that can be controlled.
...out
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