We had a serious scare this morning around 2:30am. My wife woke me up mumbling about noises. When I heard the noise, my first thought was her daughter had some popcorn in the microwave. Turns out, the noise was Bella's paws thrashing against a wall. She was laying on her side, eyes open, body stiff, legs out straight and thrashing - not like in a doggy dream of chasing squirrels - and she was frothing at the mouth. I've never seen one before - either in a dog or a person - but I knew she was having a seizure.

My first response was to call my vet's 24 hour number. Just as someone was answering the phone, the seizure seemed to pass. Bella remained laying on her side, but within a few minutes got up and started walking around. She was definitely dis-oriented and seemed a little out of it. She spent the next 5 or so minutes walking around the house getting her bearings. She would only respond to simple commands - not that she's always responsive to commands - but she was still very out of it and would only let me put her for about a minute. Once she stopped walking around sniffing everything, she just curled up on the floor and stayed there for the next 5 or 6 hours. After that, she seemed to be back to her old "rub my belly" self.

I took her to the vet this morning to have blood work to rule out any internal organ issues that could have caused the seizure and we should hear something back tomorrow. We have had Bella about 2 1/2 months and this is the first time we've seen anything like this.