Reply #19: Yes, same dog as on Anderson Cooper

[DeschutesRiver]

I've had two dogs with seizures - one had mild ones, which he'd recover from slowly with unsteady headquarters after sleeping it off a bit, and the other with severe ones which left her extremely disoriented, confused, unable to to quit walking around and around, running into walls, unaware for days. Neither resembled this dog's actions from start to finish, although my first thought at the begininng was of a seizure, until I watched the whole thing. He looked like he was running faster and faster, then bit at something chasing him, then leapt away from it, which wouldn't have been so bad but for that darned wall in his way. He came to pretty fast and steady on his feet at that point.

My seizure and non seizure dogs have all run in their sleep, with one that vocalizes too. I always knew when it was "dreaming/running" vs. a full blown severe seizure.

OTOH, there is a lot of variance in how a dog can express themselves while experiencing a seizure, and maybe this is just an expression with which I am not familiar. Would be interesting to have a vet's take on it.