Patterdale

[Barky 24]

Hey guys had abit of a shock this morning had my patt dog out he's 4yrs old fit as a fiddle never had any problem with him all of a sudden he went stiff as a board eyes rolled in his head I picked him up and led him down after about 5mins he came round and was fine like nothing had happened he's been fine since... Rang my vet and he said keep an eye on him any problem call him but sounds like a fit... Anyone know what could be the problem? If he does it again il have him scanned and blood tested.

[CHIP 39]

sounds like fitting ive had a couple do it on occassion seem to come on when the dogs jee,d up hypa if you know what i mean,i know theres tablets from vets meant to prevent it but im not a fan of pumping a dog with tablets long term...if its a digging dog it poses a problem for obvious reasons

[bryanm45 787]

Found some info, hope it helps.

http://www.scvetspecialists.co.uk/images/contentimages/Mydogiscollapsing.pdf

[Barky 24]

Cheers guys il keep him in the house from now on... It scared the shit out of me lol

[chris87 297]

A buddys bitch done same last week but never came round , glad urs did!

[irishdogs 48]

Happened to our russell dog during a dig when we broke through he just stopped and collapsed luckily he came round, took him to vets and diagnosed a heart murmur retired him after that, shame but not worth loosing a good dog over

[Beastmaster1980 40]

My Patterdale bitch does this every now & then she is 4 years old, look likes its hereditary as her dam also did this but continued to work well. It's possibly due to them being too closely bred as once someone gets a good digging line they tend to keep the gene pool close to produce more workers, unfortunately some of them carry this fault. Out of interest what area did the dog come from?

[Barky 24]

He came from Worcester way bred by a friend of a friend, been digging with him since a pup but not done much for a while but now this has happened I won't take a chance with him.

[WorkingBullandTerrier 132]

Of course without running bloodwork to check his phenobarb levels I couldn't say for sure, but it sounds like he had a seizure and could be epileptic. We have an older Catahoula hog dog here, that ONLY has episodes when she's out working. Never happens while sitting up in her pen. "Stress" induced we believe. By stress I mean elevated blood pressure as when working.....

 

If it's not reoccurring, and/or you don't plan on working him anymore, meds wouldn't be nessecary, but if you did plan on continuing to work him, he would need to be on daily oral meds. Over here we use Phenobarbitol dosed appropriately.

[Barky 24]

Hi lads just an update, my patt had another fit today and this time he was sick but came round straight away, think I'll get him up the vets to see what's going on..