Posted by Helen Hill on March 08, 1998 at 09:20:04:

In Reply to: Re: deafness and seizures in pekes posted by C.Tross on March 08, 1998 at 03:21:06:

> The question is..do you mean Epilepic Seizures? Our Peke started having light ones at about 3years of age and our vet didn't want to believe that it was anything serious, except maybe an overreaction of mine. It went along for about 1/2 Year and then she had a Grand Mal losing Urine and Stool, thats when the vet said it could be a light form of epilepsy, but she didn't want to put Phoenix on regular medication, because the side effects on Liver and such too risker are. Her seizures became worse and more often, I didn't feel comfortable during them and only with rectal Valium in case a very bad Seizure. So I changed the vet and we have her on Phenobartital only 15mg a day. We tried reducing after a few month to only 7,5mg but after 3 weeks she had another seizure. Since we have given her this medication she has no longer had any problems. After we started the med. she was less active and we had to make sure that she didn't start getting fat. After 2 weeks she was back to normal.
> I hope this info helps a little!

We just purchased our first peke, and I was told not realizing a head of time that these animals are prone to seizures. It will not stop me though from keeping Bentley.