jeez i’m sorry. i have a dog and seizures both. i like the dog better.
but it doesn’t seem like he’ll fall very far, so it might just be his style, as the shrinks say these days.
all the best puppy, and you too wembley

Great, epilepsy-induced involuntary erections. How long before Herman Cain’s spokesman is using that excuse?

Well, at least it is a treatable affliction and it does impress the ladies…

Seriously, I hope this can be easily taken care of and Wembley will be a happy and less shaking/erecting dog.

His right eye and eyebrow show pure evil and his left eye is open and expressive in that love me? kind of way. A bundle of contradictions as we all are.

He does look like he needs a monocle in that right eye, doesn’t he? “Ve haff vays uff making you giff us a treat!”

And condolences about the epilepsy. Chronic illness in any family member is always a concern. May he live a long, full, and not-too-expensively-treated life.

A coworker of mine went into convulsions the other day. He was snoozing peacefully at his desk when apparently some pesky spittle when down the wrong pipe and he woke up thrashing and hacking! I didn’t check for incapacitating-boner-syndrome….

Doc TBogg, what’s the dosage on those anti-convulsants and are they suppositories? I’ll be darned if a coworker will die in his sleep on my watch!

I seen this look before. It’s the “OK, you’ve had your fun getting me to pose for your stupid pictures…now give me the goddam biscuits.”

Sorry to hear that he’s got an illness, but glad it’s treatable. And here I assumed he was enjoying those boners…alas.

Thanks for the drool. It’s been a long week.

If you get caught “applying” the suppositories, you can always use the “horseplay” excuse.

(((((((( Wembley ))))))))

On the plus side you don’t need to pay for boner pills.

Isn’t Wembley the cuTEST!

I’m sorry to hear the precious boy is having seizures, especially ones that cause embarrassing unintended boners. (Sounds like a defense Herman Cain would use to get out of his predicaments like sexual harassment and that Lydia Labia Lybia brain fart. Thankfully he isn’t reading your blog. Because he doesn’t read, apparently.)

It would be awesome to get a handicap sticker, but then you’d have to wheel Wembley around in one of those scooters and well…that would be awesome!

All the besties to the beastie. He’s in my thoughts.

Oh, poor puppy! But let this be a lesson to us not to be too boner-fixated in general: there are many things in heaven and earth beyond and besides penile manifestations.

As the provider of daily shots to a diabetic pug who’s still paying off the loan I had to take out to pay the gigantic (to me) emergency vet bills, I too hope this isn’t too expensive for you guys. Not that it’s in any way begrudged – our Albert’s a family member, deeply loved, and that’s all about it – but you know, the economy and all.

Here’s hoping that the epilepsy is minor, both in the ‘mal’ designation and in how it affects the rest of his quality of living.

A good many of us out here know what it is like to have a four-pawed-family-member with a chronic illness.

Hug Wembley as often as you can. Enjoy his antics and every moment of life shared. It’s all too short – for them and for us.

The drool is just icing on the cake biscuit. The boners…well…I supposed we have to translate the four hour danger mark into dog years/hours and come up with a canine danger threshhold.

Wait, you are at home full time with him? Did I miss something? Did you retire? Do you work from home?

Soros hands out the 7-figure bonus checks every November.

Cripes, you typed the words out of my mouth. I must have missed it, too.

And, {{{{Wembley}}}}

Also, {{{{TBogg family}}}}

Lord knows, you’ve had enough doggie illnesses for several families. To join the chorus, I’m glad you have a diagnosis and that it turns out to be treatable.

Thanks for the pic. He’s lovely, as always. I had to search for the drool string…but it does add that, je ne sais quois, doesn’t it?

“Lord knows, you’ve had enough doggie illnesses for several families.”

Are you suggesting Munchausen’s Dog By Proxy syndrome?

TBogg, have you notified the breeder? Not, obviously, for any “compensation,” but because he might want to see if any siblings are similarly affected, cease breeding the parents.

Of course they give out handicap placards for lesser issues — everything is lesser than the adorable Wembley!

And in general is this home confinement voluntary or accompanied by an electronic ankle bracelet?

I’m standing in line behind tejanarusa to offer my hugs as well, and adding my voice to the chorus hoping that they turn out to be minor and easily treatable.

And I never thought about notifying the breeder, but I agree it sounds like something they might like to know.

We’re not going to notify the breeder of anything until we know what we’re dealing with.

I hope Wembley is feeling better soon–he is a highly cute pup, and the pictures definitely make my evening of a Thursday.

I had epilepsy show up in one litter of Great Pyrenees puppies. 50 mg of niacin supplementation helped a lot to control the seizuring. Maybe talk with vet about supplementation before going to the heavier drugs.

Had friends who controlled their pup’s epilepsy with acupuncture. She was 16 when she finally died and it wasn’t because of her epilepsy. Worth looking at anyway.

My lab mix started showing signs of a neurological problem at about 7 years old (wobbly on the back legs) which got worse over time so that at the age of about 11 she was having two seizures in a row at least once a month (stiff as a board in the legs and not breathing through the first part and then panting/drooling through the second. Our vet said we could medicate but it was basically going to keep her drugged and she would not be the same. His suggestion was to change her food first…and low and behold they are gone and have been for 3 years (although I have noticed tiny tremors once in a while). It could be a food allergy or something similar…I switched her from Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice to the Nutro Ultra which was fine until they reformulated it a few months ago. Now she is on the Drs Foster and Smith food for seniors….So try changing his food first…The other thing I learned was to give them a big tablespoon of ice cream after a seizure as they use up tremendous amounts of energy during the seizures. Good Luck!

Big tablespoon of ice cream? Almost worth having a seizure FOR.

Avoid the anticonvulsants if you can. They’re nasty drugs with a lot of side effects. They’re used fairly frequently in psychiatry (my field), but I’ve never prescribed any of them, and have taken several of my (human) patients that came to me on them off of them because of the side effects. I hope you can manage this with less debilitating drugs.

The boner part is interesting, though probably uncomfortable for poor Wembley. Priapism is not any fun at all.