Any experience with localized head tremors (boxer/bulldog moms especially)

onceuponadisaster · October 2012

Popping in after quite an eventful evening. Our rescue Daisy had a head tremor that lasted roughly 3 minutes. Her head bobbed back and forth like a bobble head doll, very rhythmically. She was alert and responsive during it, no loss of bowel/bladder control, had control of her eye movements, etc (so I'm thinking NOT a seizure).

Anyone have any experience? She's currently on prednisone, clomipramine, and benadryl. They think she's roughly 4 years old, pit/boxer mix.

spalko · October 2012

We had a rescue kitten at the office earlier this year that had a constant head bobble. It would get worse the closer she got to an object, like if she was 'focusing' on it. She came to us as an itty bitty kitty and the doctor thinks the mother had a fever prior to giving birth to cause her to have this problem. She lives a very happy life in her forever home now and has no other problems. I don't know if this really helps you at all but it's the only experience I have with such problems. Schedule an appointment with your vet tomorrow.

sandollar1010 · October 2012

I don't have any direct experience, but a friend of mine works in Boxer rescue, and has mentioned in the past that head tremors are fairly common in the breed. She has had a few fosters with it. I just googled it and it can happen in bulldogs too. It is called an idiopathic head tremor, and usually there is no known cause.

http://www.examiner.com/article/idiopathic-head-tremors-boxers

aggiebug · October 2012

Frankly it sounds like a seizure just not your classic grand mal seizure we all think of and is most common in dogs. It sounds like a petite mal or forcal seizure (I think petite mal seizure are more common then we give credit to). keep track of details of the seizure such as date and time, duration, what it looks like her attitude before after and during the episode. If they are happening close together or you see ant other changed take her to see a vet otherwise I would watch her for now. and what spako describes is a well documented issue in cats associated with panleukopenia (its in a standard vaccination series so we don't see it that often in household cats) and those tremors never really disappear.

sneetches · October 2012

Our olde english bulldogge has these tremors. He does not seem to notice them, and he is totally responsive during them. The research I have done says these are not seizures, and medicating for seizures will not help.

Any experience with localized head tremors (boxer/bulldog moms especially)

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