Neurological problem, seizures - help please - Page 4

Oso I am very sorry to hear about your dog. I can tell he was special to you.

I'm so  sorry for your loss. I recently encountered the SAME loss in my beautiful 10 week old Golden Retriever puppy. He was the most lovable puppy. I only had him for 11 days total. I bought him from a reputable breeder. He didn't have any signs of any distress at all! He actually went on a mile walk the evening he went into seizures. He was put in his crate around 11 pm everything was fine. Around 1:30 AM I heard him barking and crying. I went down to check on him and it sounded like he had thrown up and had ingested it into his lungs as he was making choking noises. I grabbed him out of the crate and could see he was having a seizure. My son and I drove him to the emergency vet hospital. They immediately did blood tests which showed his white count high and he had a 106 fever. They had to put him under general anesthesia to stop the seizures. We had to leave him overnight and in the morning take him to our regular vet. When we picked him up he had just been sedated with phenobarbitaol to stop the seizing. The vet told me that he reran the blood tests and at that time everything looked normal! My regular vet needed to put him under general again to stop the seizing. I had to make the horrible decision that night to put the poor baby out of his misery as the vet told me basically he didn't have any prognosis. They made an "unofficial" diagnosis of distemper. The emergency vet tends to feel it was a liver shunt issue. I really don't have any answers to this event at all! I feel pretty unsettled about it. My daughter bought his sister and she's fine. I don't understand how a seemingly 100% perfectly healthy puppy can die so quickly from something no one can diagnosis? Has anyone ever heard of something like this? He didn't have any of the distemper signs at all...runny nose, discharge from eyes, etc. He had his first distemper vaccine and was supposed to be getting his second shot today. Any thoughts from anyone would be helpful.