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DogsDesireeAugust 28, 2026

Sick Chihuahua

I have a seven-year-old female Chihuahua, and we've taken her to the vet three times, and have yet to find an answer or medicine to take care of what's wrong with her. We have been experiencing events where she acts completely different. She runs around in circles. Seems like she doesn't know where she's at. She lifts her foot up and down, up and down, up and down, moves her head all around, all around, won't eat, whines, doesn't act like her personality at all. It will last for a day to a day and a half, and then she just comes out of it, and she's back to normal again. And then it could last clean for a day, maybe two, three, and then all of a sudden she does it again. There's nothing that triggers her. While she's in this fit, she whines and whines, runs around in circles again, repeats all the same behaviors, and then just comes out of it. A couple days later, or it could even be one day, she does it again. It's been an ongoing event that we don't know how to handle it. We've taken her to three vets. Nobody's been able to diagnose it yet. Please, please help us. Anybody that has had a dog that has acted like this. please get ahold of us

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MMichaelAug 31PAWSRX TEAM

I'm not a veterinarian and I can't tell you what this is. What I can tell you is what tends to move a case like this forward. Video is the most useful thing you can bring to any vet now. Film an episode from start to finish if you can, and a second one for comparison. Keep a note of each date, how long it lasted, and what that day looked like: meals, sleep, anything new. Episodes that come and go are hard to diagnose from an exam room, because the exam usually happens on a good day. The video brings the bad day into the room. Then ask whichever of the three vets you trusted most for a referral. General practices send recurring, hard-to-pin-down cases to specialty hospitals and university teaching hospitals, and arriving with videos and a diary changes the first visit from describing to showing.

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