Bailey's Head Tremors

She has been diagnosed with "Idiopathic Head Bobbing Syndrome", aka: Head Tremors. She's only 1 year, 7 months old. Her first one started on 7/19/08.

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Pets & Animals

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• dog Boxer
• idiopathic

[Lauren6905]

I would really suggest changing his food and diet, just to see if there is a difference and keep a journal of the days/times/length they last. Worst case scenario you try this and it doesn't work, b/c 3-4 times a day seems like an awful lot. Poor babies. Good luck to him!

[Lauren6905]

into Blue Buffalo food to possibly transition her over to b/c it's much more healthy and natural. So from my own personal experience I believe this is all food related due to the improvement I've seen since changing her diet years ago. My vet also told me when they're having these seizures not to try to move their head out of them or move their body at all. He said just to have to lick peanut butter or your hand and keep her calm. If your presa has been having them so often and frequently

[Lauren6905]

long story short within a week or so I woke up to her having a tremor. She probably had about 3-4 in a full day period, and she was also having discharge. I immediately stopped the shock collar, took her to the vet, she was fine but he thinks somehow the shock collar triggered her tremors and since her body is so sensitive that triggered her to throw up once and the discharge. But ever since then she has been fine. I still feed her Nutro Natural sensitive stomach food, but have been looking

[Lauren6905]

Bailey actually had a couple tremors this past April-May. I hadn't changed her diet at all. I know for sure she has food allergies, she'll break out in horrible hives and will throw up all the time if she eats anything she shouldn't or outside of her diet. But I had her in training and she has a huge problem with barking. So our trainer suggested using a shock collar on her, on the lighest setting, to give her a small zap when she tried to fight the dogs on the side of the fence.... (cont'd)

[AudreyJolly]

OMG. This is the first time I've seen a video that looks exactly like what my Boxer, Micah, does. The first time he did it we had just got home from being out to eat, it was fairly late and when we went to let him out, he just stood there, with his head wobbling, he was confused but we literally panicked. I had never seen anything like it. That was maybe 3 years ago, we didnt change anything and he's only done it once since then, about 2 weeks ago. Startling when you first see it for sure.

[Lauren6905]

@AudreyJolly- Bailey was the same way as he was also. She just stood there looking at me, but not moving, just standing and wobbling. I didn't even know about this condition until she did it, and I'm sure I startled her so much more by reaction. But she would always just lay down when her head was shaking or stand and stay still. She never tried to walk while it was happening.

[nhwomn]

I really don't think it's food related. My presa canario had this since he was a pup... he used to get them about once a month but sometimes it went months before having another. I have not changed anything in his diet. Lately he gets them 3-4 times a day. I give him something to lick like peanut butter or yogurt and they stop immediately. I used to be able to stretch and massage his neck and they would go way but that doesn't work anymore.

[spammo1968]

My bulldog used to do this. It seemed like she minded them much less if I ignored them (although that was very hard and I wanted to comfort her) - hers seemed food-related. If she eats the wrong things, one ear gets irritated and she seems to have more tremors. Good news is that they have abated since we've monitored her food very carefully.

[spammo1968]

My bulldog used to do this. It seemed like she minded them much less if I ignored them (although that was very hard and I wanted to comfort her) - hers seemed food-related. If she eats the wrong things, one ear gets irritated and she seems to have more tremors. Good news is that they have abated since we've monitored her food very carefully.

[spammo1968]

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.