So, the story goes:
It's late afternoon, and the puppies are put in their crates to rest (and for safe storage while yard work is being done). Dogs all look great getting into their respective crates. There is no food/water in crate. And the puppies are only in their crate about 90 minutes.
As we approach Clover's crate to let her out, we noticed that she had two loose stools and she was covered in thick, foamy/stringy mucous (?vomit) with profuse discharge from her eyes (thick, stringy discharge) and long white/foamy saliva/mucous discharge from her mouth.
Clover didn't appear post-ictal (in the human sense) but was hesitant/shy (all of a sudden) with ears back, tail down. And when we called her to us, she came...but was 'cautious' and gently liked our outstretched hands.
We did not see her seize.
Of note, when we FIRST got her, we fed her formula. While eating, she DID seem to have muscular spasm of her legs, then had violent chills (but, to be fair, the formula was cold)!! After warming her up (and warming the formula) all the symptoms went away. And with dry food...there are NO issues.
Finally, you know about the whole "deworming" thing. She had episodes of coughing/gagging whereby her entire body would shake and she would just lie down. Her belly was distended (in normal 'puppy fashion'). I gave her the D-worm...twice...and all of that went away!!
After online consultation with a vet friend, it was offered that perhaps the puppy had a seizure due to a portosystemic shunt. She suggested we should get baseline labs and bile acids.
Well, if it happened again, (or we had have actually witnessed the seizure) then possibly. But, for all we know, the puppy just ate something "wrong" and had a bout of gastroenteritis.
So observation continues....
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