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- From: shazam@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
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- Subject: Collie Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.115030.2806@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 06:50:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: drycas.1992Dec29.115030.2806
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club
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- Marla can probably help more here than I can, but I have read
- that Collies will have problems like that (epilepsy it sounds like
- to me) if they take the HeartGard brand heartworm pills. I have also
- read that they cannot take monthly pills. I know HeartGard makes
- monthly pills, but I am not sure if they make dailypills or not.
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- Check with your parents to see if they are giving her any kind of monthly
- heartworm pills or if they are giving her heartGard pills. If thye
- are I suggest they take her off of those, start her on a daily. You
- should really have them check with their vet.
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- If they are not giving her monthly or HeartGard, then she may be having
- an Epileptic seizure. I have been reading in my Vet. Handbook about
- them because my sister's Golden Retriever they adopted has them.
- It was apparent Sandy had been abused, physically, when Ellen and Don
- got her, so we kind of figure that she had been beat about the head or
- spine, which can cause them too. What you describes is what the handbook
- describes one of the seizures to be like. There had been some tlak here
- of medication that would control them? Sandy's don't occur often enough
- to warrent putting her on medication.
-
- I hope this at least gives you something to go on and I hope the Collie
- gets better real soon. I know how frightening it gets when they are sick.
-
- Suzanne
-