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Has anyone ever had a pet "sense" something was "wrong"? Louie, our cairns terrier mix, sometimes follows me everywhere. he will lay down on a carpet while I am cooking, follow me to the bathroom, he senses where I am going (I love it when I fool him :pfft: ).
I am curious if anyone has pets, has ever had one do this.
 
I had a cat that was very independent. He'd sleep with me but slept on the bed where he wanted & was comfortable and never went to bed in the daytime.

One day after a large seizure & went to go to sleep & he followed me to the bed. When I pulled him towards me he went limp like a doll and would stay where I wanted him.

The next time I had a seizure he did the same thing but I noticed that he was sitting in a spot that he never sits in but could watch me on the couch. After that I noticed that whenever he sat there watching me I'd have a large partial seizure. He definitely knew something was going to happen before I did.
 
Louie is almost always on me or at my feet except the bathroom and computer (which he tries to lay behind me IN my chair... but I've stopped him from that).

We have one cat now, but when we had 3, none ever showed that they "knew" something was about to happen... back when I was having them. We have one now, whom we've had since 2001, and she has never acted like something may be happening.
 
both of my dogs do my terrier especially neither trained to maybe seeing so many seizures they do everything to help me i just get mad b/c im comin out of a seizure.
 
My parents have a female Kelpie/Labroador Lilly & my parents have told me that they are sure Lilly knows when I am going to have a partial seizure. I have never seen how Lilly reacts when I have a seizure because I usually don't remember but after the seizure she will follow me around everywhere.

My Dad also has a couple of health issues, when he isn't feeling well & is in bed Lilly will stay with him.
 
right before my first seizure, my husky dog sat down in front of me and stared at me, it was annoying I tried petting her, checking her water, I had no clue what she wanted, 20 minutes later I went to bed and had my first seizure.
 
I wonder if birds are intelligent enough to know when something is wrong. Probably not. I have a mega headache today and my cockatiel is having great fun sitting on the windowsill and singing loudly to wild pigeons outside whilst dancing around. Cute, but cutting right through me today!
 
My dachshund --Elvis-- will set and watch me.

If I'm sleepy from the medic. - I will take him to bed with and he will sleep beside me for hours. He is usually wanting to play.

He has seizures also.
 
Louie is back at it today. I went to give the kids a bath, and he sat right at the door (he isn't fond of baths and probably thought I was going to throw him in too!). I went to the bathroom, he sits at my feet, at the computer, lays at my feet.
I've never had a dog this way before.

Now there are times, he wants nothing to do with me, but more so my husband... not many, but a few LOL.
 
Wait, is it your husband who wants nothing to do with you, or is it the pup?
 
LOL I was doing some research on seizure dogs. They don't smell or hear a seizure coming on, rather sense a change in your behavior. As a stay at home Mom, I am Mama Cat and my oldest cat likes to sit on me during the day, especially when at the computer or while on the phone, unlike right now.
 
I never noticed if my cat acts differently when I'm having seizures. So I was having a lot of seizures yesterday (simple partials), and I got home from work and my cat greeted me like always (with lots of meowing and wanting to be petted). She wasn't acting any differently. She meowed at me a little more than usual, but when I walked out of the room after petting her for a while, she didn't follow. So she either didn't sense anything, or didn't care. lol
 
So she either didn't sense anything, or didn't care.
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A bit like this, eh?
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My cat knows when I've had one. I don't know if he know's before hand but I usually don't know what happened before it and don't know what is going on until I come out of it.

When I'm having a seizure he'll get on top of me and won't move until HE thinks it's ok for me go get up and move around. He's a pretty big boy and he's not one that can just be pushed off by a little shove. He'll even stay on top of me during the headache after, keeping me down.

I think it's just funny that he does this, but he is mommy's big boy and since I take care of me he takes care of me :)
 
My chi-apso will not let my hands alone when I'm going to have a seizure, he will lick and chew on them until it's past, unless its a night seizure then he just lays on my legs all night and my wife finds him laying there in the morning and tells him "good boy" and he was a resuce dog no training at all, and I have no formal diagnosis just a verbal PNES and my neuro is looking over all my tests and seizure journals to make his own diagnosis not just wat the epi doc said on the 21st.
mike
 
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