Bingo – likes to make me worry

Bingo decided to act funny again last night.  I’ll start by saying I rang the vets and they said he’s okay.  Don’t panic.  Just watch him and I made an appointment for Saturday week.

Okay.  We were roughhousing, as we do most nights after he’s eaten.  He goes into the room with the carpet and starts rolling around after dinner – it’s to wipe his mouth clean on the carpet I’m pretty sure.  We usually play ball for a while, or tug-a-war with his blanket or he just gets a good scratch all over while he rolls around on the carpet.  He chooses.

It was the latter last night, rolling and scratching when he suddenly pulled away and just sat there.  I was talking to him, thinking I may had hurt him.  He starts to walk and seems very unbalanced, looks a bit drunk.  I’m thinking this is the beginning of a seizure and am just lightly holding him so he doesn’t fall and talking to him.  This is maybe 4-5 second. I say something like It’s okay we’ll get and get some chicken.  Well he pulls away spins around and barks at me and races into the kitchen.  Now I’m sitting on the floor stunned.  He comes running back in, barks at me some more and runs back to the kitchen, where he’s doing a dance for his dinner and barking at the top of his voice.

What the hell was that!!!

I fed him and he’s fine.  I rang the vets.  My vet wasn’t there but spoke to another. They said they didn’t think it was a seizure as it sounds too quick and he’s snapped out of it too quickly too.  So I’ve made an appointment with my guy, but not till Saturday of next week.  Obviously if I see anything else I’ll just take some time off and go in.

He woke me up at about 1 am needing to go out and did a small sloppy poo.  After which we went back to bed and about half an hour later, same thing, with another very sloppy small poo.  Bed.

This morning he didn’t want to get up, but he’s getting lazier in the mornings and it’s dark when I get up.  I mention food and he changes his mind and agrees it’s time to get up.  I checked his temperature, all good.  He’s fine this morning.

I’m thinking maybe inner ear?  He has a wart in his ear where bits of it come off and I clean this out.  His vet said we’ll leave this alone unless it causes issues.  There was some gunk in his ear from the wart which I cleaned out.

I’m thinking vestibular?  No other symptoms though.  Eyes not moving, no heat tilt, although maybe he did lean towards one side.

Bloody dog!!! Why does he soooo love to worry me.

I’ll be watching him like a hawk of course.

Love Vally & the wretch