My dog was doing the same thing about 4-6 times a day. When he was younger it only happened about once a month. I spoke to my vet and she said it's something to do with the liver function. She suggested I put him on raw food. Once I switched over to raw it never happened again.
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My 5 month old aussie has done it twice before but it only happened in a car ride and then never happened again yet. I am going to ask a vet about this next time i get the chance. My puppy deos just like your dog. I certainly hope she is ok...
Our dog had this, we went to a few vets to get more info and wound up medicating her which was terrible. No head bobbing but a little zombie like. We took her off the meds and my wife started researching online. We noticed that she seemed to have ear itches that corresponded to her tremors. Long story short, we started modifying her diet by using different types of foods. We think that in our case her problem was tied to food allergies as she seems fine now on her restricted diet.
Our little lady just started doing this tonight. She is one year old this month and she was just playing and running with the kids. They took her for a walk around the block and when they came back I could tell she had no energy. A half hour later she was on her spot on the couch when my daughter noticed her head shaking like your dog. We offered her water and she drank. We offered her some cooked stew meat; she ate it. He head shaking seemed to stop but, a half hour later it began again.
my beagle is also shaking sometimes all his body and sometimes his back legs, but not as badly as this dog in the video. I hope this doesnt get worse at the moment we re monitoring him as well
Thank you the video. My westie has the syndrome too. she went to icu for 5 days and had mri. Every thing is normal. Doctors say she has white shaker syndrome. they put her on prednisone and anticonvulsant for 2 weeks. the shaking syndrome went away but it came bace when she got excited.
i unno if it's me but your dog really doesn't seem like she's enjoying any of this.. if it is a tumor isn't there a way to remove it?..
p.s not saying to put your dog down, but pointing out your dog looks a tad miserable and i would assume her head is killing her from that tumor and from the constant sahking of the head
People searching for answers to their dog's condition will, for the lack of the correct medical terminology, search for information about 'seizures'. This is how I started my research after vets misdiagnosed Lucky's condition.
Yeah, I actually knew that when I typed the comment. In fact I don't know why the fuck I bothered finishing and posting the comment, and not bother to remove it..
My life's a mystery. Anyways, tagging videos like this is a smart thing to do. I'm surprised vets misdiagnosed his condition, since tremors is one of the things that should come to mind. Poor dog :(
My dog also has this. Ive been looking for the past weeks trying to figure out what was wrong and was pretty much freaking out everytime he does it. Just like your dog, mine only does this when he is relaxed or ready to go to sleep. Ive never tried holding his head down to see if he stops but what i did was either distract him with a toy or feed him a treat. It started a few weeks ago and he is only 10months old.
I am curious if your dog still does this. My 1 1/2 year old Doberman started doing this yesterday - it happened three times and scared me to death. Did it eventually go away?
my mutt is 10 years old and he only JUST started having this head tremor a few days ago, and it only happens when he's waiting for his food, and he's VERY EXCITABLE when it's feeding time, so i don't know if the head tremor is caused by all his excitement?
i'm pretty freaked out about this cos i've never seen his head shake like that.
he just had his blood work done last week and all's fine, thank God. i just don't know why the head tremors started all of a sudden.
He is stable. Nothing has changed. There are periods when these episodes are more frequent than at other times. When we see it happening, we gently hold his head still and it stops. Happy, dog - free of medication and the condition is not progessing.
I have a 6 year old Chow Aussie and border collie mix and all he has is epilepsy (spelling?) but hes on pills. are you sure its not a seizure trying to escape.....
We are certain. We had him on the maximum allowable dosage of Penobarb AND Potassiumbromide. Didn't make any difference, except for the severe side effects. He has these episodes for many years now. They do not progree. The vets told me if it were a form of epilepsy, it would have progressed and we would have experienced grand mals by now.
We had neurologist look at tat video and they agreed.
I feel bad for dogs with this. Honestly, I'd go insane if my head kept shaking. My god had spells where her whole body shakes, and she cant move much, and she vomits. She's also a mix of Australian shepherd and Border Collie. Must be certain foods. The vets just say foods, other than that they have no clue.
Lucky is 7 years old now. He had is first episode when he was somewhere between 18 and 24 month. They were extremely rare (several month and more apart). They became more frequent at age 5. He is still having these episodes, but he is off of any medication and he is doing fine. Btw, you can stop them by holding his head firm for a few seconds. Don't know about the chlorine - never heard that mentioned.
When my dog started having them, I did some research. I found an obscure article that suggested the ingredient in Frontline, specifically, could cause tremors. I still use it and my dog hasn't had tremors in months. I am still not sure what was causing them.
They only appear, when he is relaxed. Never while he is excited or stressed. He had his first episode, when he was about 18 month old.
Very rarely, so we didn't start any medication.
But now that we are convinced that it is NOT epillepsie, we are glad we stopped the medication, which we had maxed out (dosage) and experienced many unwanted side effects.
I have an Australian Shepherd/Collie mix, and he's had about 5 seizures in his lifetime, he's been diagnosed with epilepsy. Is there some type of connection between the species and the seizures or is this just coincidence?
Apparently yes, I was told. That is why we misdiagnosed this in the first place I think. What you see here is NOT epilepsy, neurologists agree.
We had him on the maximum allowable dosage of phenobarbital and bromide, and it didn't make any change in the frequency or severeness of theses tremors. It only changed his behavior, he was always, hungry, and thirsty, stole every available food up to the point where he ate his own feces. Since we took him off the medication (slowly) he is again normal.
It started when he was about 18 month ago, if I remember correctly. He is eleven years old now.
uweiler 3 weeks ago
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@uweiler How is he being treated? Have and 11 yr old lab husky mix that has these pretty often. mommapickens@gmail.com looking for more information
SAPICKE 1 week ago
Thats sad. Form of peripheral nerve disease. Protein involved here is the PMP-22.
lty2k84 6 months ago
My dog was doing the same thing about 4-6 times a day. When he was younger it only happened about once a month. I spoke to my vet and she said it's something to do with the liver function. She suggested I put him on raw food. Once I switched over to raw it never happened again.
nhwomn 7 months ago
Hmmm. This seems to be common in herding-type dogs.
MrFreemaan 10 months ago
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salinasjules 1 year ago
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spliz86 1 year ago
What causes this??? My old dog, a Cocker Spaniel, did this his first year and then I guess he grew out of it. Is it neurological?
:( poor guy
sparkle70x7 1 year ago
My 5 month old aussie has done it twice before but it only happened in a car ride and then never happened again yet. I am going to ask a vet about this next time i get the chance. My puppy deos just like your dog. I certainly hope she is ok...
Ethan123091 1 year ago
Our dog had this, we went to a few vets to get more info and wound up medicating her which was terrible. No head bobbing but a little zombie like. We took her off the meds and my wife started researching online. We noticed that she seemed to have ear itches that corresponded to her tremors. Long story short, we started modifying her diet by using different types of foods. We think that in our case her problem was tied to food allergies as she seems fine now on her restricted diet.
spammo1968 1 year ago
Our little lady just started doing this tonight. She is one year old this month and she was just playing and running with the kids. They took her for a walk around the block and when they came back I could tell she had no energy. A half hour later she was on her spot on the couch when my daughter noticed her head shaking like your dog. We offered her water and she drank. We offered her some cooked stew meat; she ate it. He head shaking seemed to stop but, a half hour later it began again.
P2VNeptuneAC 1 year ago
test
mlaich 1 year ago
omg iam sry but god bless ya
fatherfrost100 1 year ago
my beagle is also shaking sometimes all his body and sometimes his back legs, but not as badly as this dog in the video. I hope this doesnt get worse at the moment we re monitoring him as well
danica0001 2 years ago
Thank you the video. My westie has the syndrome too. she went to icu for 5 days and had mri. Every thing is normal. Doctors say she has white shaker syndrome. they put her on prednisone and anticonvulsant for 2 weeks. the shaking syndrome went away but it came bace when she got excited.
lillichen5263896 2 years ago
i unno if it's me but your dog really doesn't seem like she's enjoying any of this.. if it is a tumor isn't there a way to remove it?..
p.s not saying to put your dog down, but pointing out your dog looks a tad miserable and i would assume her head is killing her from that tumor and from the constant sahking of the head
Jal1515 2 years ago
Why is seizure listed in the tags? He's not having a seizure.
rocketlauncher2 2 years ago
People searching for answers to their dog's condition will, for the lack of the correct medical terminology, search for information about 'seizures'. This is how I started my research after vets misdiagnosed Lucky's condition.
uweiler 2 years ago
Yeah, I actually knew that when I typed the comment. In fact I don't know why the fuck I bothered finishing and posting the comment, and not bother to remove it..
My life's a mystery. Anyways, tagging videos like this is a smart thing to do. I'm surprised vets misdiagnosed his condition, since tremors is one of the things that should come to mind. Poor dog :(
rocketlauncher2 2 years ago
@uweiler. Has he been doing that all his life?
ourayvet1 3 weeks ago
My dog also has this. Ive been looking for the past weeks trying to figure out what was wrong and was pretty much freaking out everytime he does it. Just like your dog, mine only does this when he is relaxed or ready to go to sleep. Ive never tried holding his head down to see if he stops but what i did was either distract him with a toy or feed him a treat. It started a few weeks ago and he is only 10months old.
projektitr 2 years ago
I am curious if your dog still does this. My 1 1/2 year old Doberman started doing this yesterday - it happened three times and scared me to death. Did it eventually go away?
Charlalee 2 years ago
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Maybe it's the food she is eating.
Stop feeding her dry food, try barf or cook for her. No kibble at all. And see how she is doing.
Many dogs do that shaking thing just because of the dry food!
guppaki 2 years ago
uweiler: how did you-all decide it was idiopathic? Just by the lack of progression, or did you have an MRI or CT scan done?
Scott8586 2 years ago
Yes, we had a CT scan done. Found nothing. No progression of the symptoms and the fact that medication for epilepsy didn't change anything.
uweiler 2 years ago
my mutt is 10 years old and he only JUST started having this head tremor a few days ago, and it only happens when he's waiting for his food, and he's VERY EXCITABLE when it's feeding time, so i don't know if the head tremor is caused by all his excitement?
i'm pretty freaked out about this cos i've never seen his head shake like that.
he just had his blood work done last week and all's fine, thank God. i just don't know why the head tremors started all of a sudden.
i heart my mutt!!!
myipodispink 2 years ago
I wonder if its certin breeds? I am getting a aussie puppy once he is weaned but I dont want to have problems like this.
bridlelessgirl 3 years ago
He is stable. Nothing has changed. There are periods when these episodes are more frequent than at other times. When we see it happening, we gently hold his head still and it stops. Happy, dog - free of medication and the condition is not progessing.
uweiler 3 years ago
wow it looks just like my grandpas collie and sheperd mix with out the head thing though thats sad
cr85racer13 3 years ago
I have a 6 year old Chow Aussie and border collie mix and all he has is epilepsy (spelling?) but hes on pills. are you sure its not a seizure trying to escape.....
Lentsnh 3 years ago
We are certain. We had him on the maximum allowable dosage of Penobarb AND Potassiumbromide. Didn't make any difference, except for the severe side effects. He has these episodes for many years now. They do not progree. The vets told me if it were a form of epilepsy, it would have progressed and we would have experienced grand mals by now.
We had neurologist look at tat video and they agreed.
uweiler 3 years ago
Oh dang im sorry to hear that man. Hope all is well.and yes that is what i was thinking of. the medicine.
Lentsnh 3 years ago
I feel bad for dogs with this. Honestly, I'd go insane if my head kept shaking. My god had spells where her whole body shakes, and she cant move much, and she vomits. She's also a mix of Australian shepherd and Border Collie. Must be certain foods. The vets just say foods, other than that they have no clue.
KRnFckXXX 3 years ago
Lucky is 7 years old now. He had is first episode when he was somewhere between 18 and 24 month. They were extremely rare (several month and more apart). They became more frequent at age 5. He is still having these episodes, but he is off of any medication and he is doing fine. Btw, you can stop them by holding his head firm for a few seconds. Don't know about the chlorine - never heard that mentioned.
uweiler 3 years ago
It's called "Idiopathic Head Tremor"
uweiler 3 years ago
What is this called. My 18 month old just started doing this.
aaronbhoffman 3 years ago
When my dog started having them, I did some research. I found an obscure article that suggested the ingredient in Frontline, specifically, could cause tremors. I still use it and my dog hasn't had tremors in months. I am still not sure what was causing them.
magstar74 3 years ago
They only appear, when he is relaxed. Never while he is excited or stressed. He had his first episode, when he was about 18 month old.
Very rarely, so we didn't start any medication.
But now that we are convinced that it is NOT epillepsie, we are glad we stopped the medication, which we had maxed out (dosage) and experienced many unwanted side effects.
uweiler 3 years ago
I have an Australian Shepherd/Collie mix, and he's had about 5 seizures in his lifetime, he's been diagnosed with epilepsy. Is there some type of connection between the species and the seizures or is this just coincidence?
Alucard255 3 years ago
Apparently yes, I was told. That is why we misdiagnosed this in the first place I think. What you see here is NOT epilepsy, neurologists agree.
We had him on the maximum allowable dosage of phenobarbital and bromide, and it didn't make any change in the frequency or severeness of theses tremors. It only changed his behavior, he was always, hungry, and thirsty, stole every available food up to the point where he ate his own feces. Since we took him off the medication (slowly) he is again normal.
uweiler 3 years ago
Are these head tremors episodic? If so, how long do they last? Do they happen at any particular time of day?
coolvawn 4 years ago
will she die
Talonthewolf 3 years ago
Not because of these tremors
uweiler 3 years ago
Episodic - yes. Particular time of day - no.
When they appear, it is usually when he is relaxed.
uweiler 3 years ago
My 5 year old lab has starting having these as well. I'm just curious - do you have your dog on Frontline?
magstar74 4 years ago
Yes, we have him on frontline. Have you heard of any connection?
uweiler 3 years ago