http://www.allthingsbeagle.com/blog/?p=12 Beagle Health, Training and Behavior Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.allthingsbeagle.com/blog/?p=12#comment-37 Hounddog Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:01:32 +0000 http://www.allthingsbeagle.com/blog/?p=12#comment-37 Quick story about siezures....I have 3 beagles - 2 i owned from pup, the other i introduced this past fall. He was about 11 months old. Once afternoon, one of my older (8yr) beagles was siezing for the first time in the back yard. I immediately took him to the vet who explained that beagles in their latter years are prone to siezures. After an hour visit, i took him home and as i was putting him in his kennel, my newest pup began to sieze. I immediately ran him over to the vet, who now suspected poisons of some kind...fertillizer, mulch, wild mushroom......this went on for about a week, where, two of my three continued to have small, 3 minute siezures. After carefully watching them for a day, I found that two of the three were eating the hard casings off of the black walnuts that were falling from the trees. These are potentially lethal if they get enough. The female found no like in them, and thus was not involved. The puppy actually had them lodged in his bowels and the shells produce a toxic acid when in their stomachs. Don't rule out potential hazzards in the yard as that could be the cause. Quick story about siezures….I have 3 beagles - 2 i owned from pup, the other i introduced this past fall. He was about 11 months old. Once afternoon, one of my older (8yr) beagles was siezing for the first time in the back yard. I immediately took him to the vet who explained that beagles in their latter years are prone to siezures. After an hour visit, i took him home and as i was putting him in his kennel, my newest pup began to sieze. I immediately ran him over to the vet, who now suspected poisons of some kind…fertillizer, mulch, wild mushroom……this went on for about a week, where, two of my three continued to have small, 3 minute siezures. After carefully watching them for a day, I found that two of the three were eating the hard casings off of the black walnuts that were falling from the trees. These are potentially lethal if they get enough. The female found no like in them, and thus was not involved. The puppy actually had them lodged in his bowels and the shells produce a toxic acid when in their stomachs. Don’t rule out potential hazzards in the yard as that could be the cause.

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