When L.B.B. had seizures, I didn't have the internet. (Gosh, that was a loooong time ago) But now I have broadband, and needless to say, I've done a ton of researching on dog seizures. Here's some of what I learned:

From my reading, I believe that Aries had a Tonic Clonic Grand Mal seizure. During the Grand Mal seizure, the tonic phase is when the dog falls to the ground, rigidly stretches his legs out and loses consciousness. The clonic stage exhibits paddling of limbs, pupils in both eyes dilate and unresponsive, and the dog loses control of bodily functions and begins to drool, urinate or defecate on itself.

Spending the next two hours, crying and watching Aries for further signs, I began my research. Now I also believe that the "tic" that Aries has in his back leg (You know how a dog's leg with "scratch" when you get just that right place? That's what his back left leg will do uncontrollably for a few seconds frequently throughout the day.) is actually a sign of partial seizures.

Partial Seizures are odd things where the seizure activities such as the leg paddling, muscle spasms, neck and head bending or the main part of the body and facial muscle spasms only occur in one part of the body. These types of seizures can worsen until they appear to be Grand Mal or Mild Tonic-clonic but the difference is how the seizure began. Both Tonic-clonic types seem to be overall body from the start but the partials may just start at the face or one hip.

Aries has always had this "tic" and has been a very temperamental dog. We also noticed that after being given sweets, his attitude is much better. Since low blood sugar is a possible cause of dog seizures, I am going to get Aries tested for this. Also, I plan to have him x-rayed since tumors run in this line of spaniels and that's another possible seizure cause. It's been over 48 hrs. now, and Aries has been fine since, although my nerves are still quite frazzled.

I'm only a little crazy and only a little paranoid. But I have excellent reasons for my paranoia (notice I didn't mention anything about reasons for my craziness? ) First, I'm paranoid about my house burning. (It happened once before you know - years ago at the 12th street house) Every time I return to my home, and see that it hasn't not burned, I breathe a sigh of relief. Which leads to my next paranoia. Each time I see that my door is still closed and locked and that I haven't been robbed, the tension eases. (That's happened three times, and I've moved to a new house each time. That's how I ended up where I am for the past 11 years. )

My only other paranoia probably sounds a little weird, but after using my search feature, I see that I have amply reason to be paranoid after June 2002 and March 2003. See, I'm also afraid of birds - IN my house!! Just this last week, as Jim went to leave my house, he and the dogs stepped onto my screened-in porch and things got crazy. Two birds were flying around and sending the doggies into a frenzy. LOL How they got inside, I can't imagine. I never figured out how any of the other birds ever got in either.

Wouldn't you just know it?! I get that Spring Fever bug and start planting, and now they are predicting, [brrrr] sn*w, perhaps, maybe this weekend! Ohio Spring will do that; but the good thing is that the temps start going right back up after the weekend.

Lo, and behold, just in time for the snow, the cosmos are starting to sprout! ROFL Cosmos prefer the weather warmer, but I'm hoping that they will hang in there. Heaven knows, I've already had to mow my back grass three times, with another one by the time the snow is gone. If the danged dandelions came keep blooming, my little flowers ought to be able to keep growing.