Seizure Or Not? Fear Response Perhaps?
Alright the other day my dog (Terrier/Chi mix) had what I thought was a seizure. She has had other small episodes. Now we aren’t so sure they are seizures after my husband has witnessed these. She has these episodes we will call them. Everytime I try to cook something with the toaster, the microwave, or the oven. She is fine with the stove. This has been going on for over a week. vet isn’t sure they are seizures either, ofcourse he hasn’t witnessed them.
I have filmed one for future reference when I start the oven or toaster, she starts trembling like she is cold. And she just trembles for awhile. A lot of the time she ends up in my lap just trembling and I just talk to her. I’ll admit she is a skittish dog but a very good dog, very kind.
I’m wondering if maybe the toaster, microwave, or oven is setting off some kind of a smell that is triggering a fear response. The vet also mentioned being mixed with Chihuahua that chihuahuas shake and shiver a lot.
But seeing a dog of her size trembling like a chihuahua is kind of weird.
Anyways a few months back the people in the apartment above started their fireplace and the flew (i think that is what it is called) wasn’t open and the smoke backed up into our apartment. If we had not gotten home when we did and got those dogs out, both dogs would have suffocated. Smoke detector was an electric smoke detector and it never went off. Our apartment was full of smoke. We had to leave for the night.
I’m wondering since I’m not that great of a cook and I tend to burn things, I’m still learning. If she is thinking the smell is the apartment filling up with smoke again. So when she sees me use one of those items she gets that sudden fear and starts trembling.
Then again it could be seizures but its weird that they only happen when I cook. When my husband cooks it doesn’t happen. She has only done this once when my husband was home and we were doing an experiment with the toaster and she sure enough started up.
Again she is completely lucid and she walks around. She walks around all submissive like, ears back almost looking like she is in trouble and she just trembles and tries to hide or get close to us our our other dog and snuggle as close as possible and she just trembles.
Vet and us both are skeptical if these are seizures or not. Because it doesn’t sound like a typical seizure
I’m trying to get a video to upload of her episode but its going to take some time. I may ask again when the video comes up.
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January 18, 2010 @ 5:03 pm
I don’t think it is a seizure. Like you said she may associate the smells of cooking with the smoke incident. I would try putting her in a different room while you are cooking and see if it helps.