Old Dog Vestibulopathy
March 20th, 2007 @ 9:24 pm

My mum had a blue merle sheltie named Gemma, that had something wrong with her and when she was alive we never did find out the name of it or what causes it despite taking her to the vet and having various tests done.

What Gemma had was a real mystery, but it was like she was having strokes and when her tri colour daughter named Phoebe started having them I was determined to find out if I could find out any info about it.

So I typed in how do you know if your dog had a stroke? But there was nothing on Australian pages so I searched again, this time clicking on search the web and I found a website that explained the different types of strokes and that how I discovered Old Dog Vestibulopathy.

It then explained the exact symtoms that Gemma, and now Phoebe had.

The site also explained that it was like experiencing very bad motion sickness, and also that this type of stroke is cause by something in the middle ear that goes haywire; though it isn’t known why this happens.

But at least we got a name for it now.

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3 Comments

  1. Liss
    said,

    March 20, 2007 at 10:12 pm

    Well done on finding this Jo.

  2. Sam
    said,

    August 8, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Hi,

    my 13 year old dog got this too, just like you say, it’s not really known why it happened – I thought that was doggy heaven for her … just hope it never happens again

  3. Jo
    said,

    August 10, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Hi Sam,

    It isn’t nice to watch when something like this happens to our pets. But I can say that some dogs experience these symtoms more frequently than others. As even though Gemma and Phoebe are related, I know that Phoebe had fewer of these strokes than her mother.

    I also wish now that I thought of adding a link to the website that I found that had the info on old dog vestibulopathy.

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