cadillactaste
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We've had experience with Head Tremors in the past...with our first bulldog Jake. Our vet even went against the vet who owned the practice and stated..."I disagree this is NOT a seizure" and contacted Ohio State to get others opinions on what was going on. They agreed it wasn't seizure activity...BUT wasn't sure what it was at that time...possibly he might out grow it. [Which did NOT happen]
Fast forward...Tank our oldest bulldog never had head tremors as a pup...nor the first year we had him...but we noticed he was putting on some weight so we changed his food to DIET dog food. And...low and behold came the tremors. Concerned...and hoping that they would know more about head tremors. We contacted our new vet. And learned that bulldogs due to their muscle mass can burn dog food with their metabolism speeds up and their sugar levels have been known to drop. Using the diet dog food had less calories than the previous dog food. Thus...his sugar dropped from the food change. So we switched foods...and she said that ones have also gave oatmeal as an in between snack. Since oatmeal breaks down into sugar...which helped people keep those tremors at bay. We put him on perscription dog food which was a better diet dog food. And give him 1/2 of a "Sunbeam" Honey and Oats granola bars as a filler for in between his two scheduled meals...
Now since switching vets over an error that they gave him ACE when I have marked on his charts he's not to have it...a new vet practice we are not seeing. And they no longer carry the diet perscription food. So we tried another food. And Sarge had horrible reactions to it...so they suggested to just go with the same "brand" of food just not perscription...so that's what we're doing...and so we no longer give him the 1/2 of a granola bar. He only gets a granola bar if he's being stubborn and not wanting to eat his breakfast meal. And I have mentoring at school. I will give him one to keep a tremor at bay while I'm gone. Or if we take a walk or he's extra playful for I found when he's extra playful...it can bring on a tremor...[low sugar from his metabolism kicking in during play I would guess]
Switching vets and dog food caused us to have to figure in the trigger of when his sugar may drop. But now we've got it down to a science and he again is head tremor free!
Speaking to the surgeon who did his ACL surgery...he asked me pointed questions since Tank's chart was marked that he had tremors in the past. Wanted to know what we found that worked...so he could mark it in his file on his computer for future reference. [Which I thought pretty cool]
Fast forward...Tank our oldest bulldog never had head tremors as a pup...nor the first year we had him...but we noticed he was putting on some weight so we changed his food to DIET dog food. And...low and behold came the tremors. Concerned...and hoping that they would know more about head tremors. We contacted our new vet. And learned that bulldogs due to their muscle mass can burn dog food with their metabolism speeds up and their sugar levels have been known to drop. Using the diet dog food had less calories than the previous dog food. Thus...his sugar dropped from the food change. So we switched foods...and she said that ones have also gave oatmeal as an in between snack. Since oatmeal breaks down into sugar...which helped people keep those tremors at bay. We put him on perscription dog food which was a better diet dog food. And give him 1/2 of a "Sunbeam" Honey and Oats granola bars as a filler for in between his two scheduled meals...
Now since switching vets over an error that they gave him ACE when I have marked on his charts he's not to have it...a new vet practice we are not seeing. And they no longer carry the diet perscription food. So we tried another food. And Sarge had horrible reactions to it...so they suggested to just go with the same "brand" of food just not perscription...so that's what we're doing...and so we no longer give him the 1/2 of a granola bar. He only gets a granola bar if he's being stubborn and not wanting to eat his breakfast meal. And I have mentoring at school. I will give him one to keep a tremor at bay while I'm gone. Or if we take a walk or he's extra playful for I found when he's extra playful...it can bring on a tremor...[low sugar from his metabolism kicking in during play I would guess]
Switching vets and dog food caused us to have to figure in the trigger of when his sugar may drop. But now we've got it down to a science and he again is head tremor free!
Speaking to the surgeon who did his ACL surgery...he asked me pointed questions since Tank's chart was marked that he had tremors in the past. Wanted to know what we found that worked...so he could mark it in his file on his computer for future reference. [Which I thought pretty cool]