Dog runs in to wall

[Dizzy]

It doesn't look like a seizure to me. The comparison I have is to my bro who had night terrors combined with sleep walking.

You'd think he was being murdered or having a fit.

The dog actually stands up and barks in one vid....

It doesn't look NORMAL, but personally, I don't think it is seizures - I think this dog is a vivid dreamer.

Bodhi doesn't quite run, but she is SUPER dreamy sometimes and will bark in her sleep.

But I am no vet. And neither is anyone here!

 

[Dizzy]

Another dog:

YouTube - Sleep Walking Dog

Another:

YouTube - Cheez our dreaming dog

More.

YouTube - My Old Dog Running in his Sleep

Another:

YouTube - Sleep Running Puppy

Upside down "seizure":

YouTube - My Dog Running upside down

 

[Giny]

I watched some of the other clips of him and in some of them it looks more like he's having a seizure

I was thinking the same thing...I was about to post that.

 

[Giny]

If the dog continued doing the imaginary walk in his sleep then yah, I'd think it was cause from a dream. Boomer does it once in a while. But this dog was doing more then just pretend walking/running at the end of the video, he was doing the same exact thing my cat used to do with her seizures, you can even hear his jaw clattering.

 

[Dizzy]

THIS is a seizure:

DO NOT WATCH IF YOU'RE OF A SENSITIVE DISPOSITION

YouTube - Welsh Corgi- Poor Kirby Having Seizures

The whole body tenses up - the dog in the vid (wall one) clearly is having sleeping zoomies - tail tucked under the lot.

 

[Dekka]

Seizures are not all the same. In dogs or in people. I had a friend who would 'freeze' sometimes fall over and then 'come too'. She was having seizures. But she never twitched. I worked in a class where one of the kids would start repetitive motions (with arms usually) and that was also a seizure.

 

[YodelDogs]

It is normal for dogs to twitch, whimper, or "woof" in their sleep. It is not normal for dogs to spasm violently, jump into walls, or stand up wobbling and dazed. As Dekka pointed out, there are several types of seizures and an animal may experience different behaviors in each episode. This dog is exhibiting several syptoms of seizure activity. I feel really bad for it and I hope it gets some medical attention.

 

[dukha11]

"Uncommon" 1 thing i could say, maybe he/she's having a nightmare, poor dog do looks so embarrasse when he/she got up XD dang frankly speaking i did laugh when i saw the video XD

 

[elegy]

THIS is a seizure:

seizures come in all sorts of different flavors. full out tonic-clonic seizures down to seizures that you can't even see if you don't know what you're looking at. harv's first seizure was him falling down, vomiting madly, and chewing like he was chewing gum. he never spasmed other than his chewing, he never lost consciousness. it wasn't until he started having more classic-looking seizures that we realized that it had been a seizure.

the dog in the original video looks very seizurelike to me.

 

[Beanie]

My co-worker and I were just watching these and I said the same thing - I wondered if it was a seizure. The two minute long video was REALLY worrying to me. Both of his dogs have epilepsy and he said he didn't think it was a seizure, but the way the dog is "out of it" for so long and then "wakes up..." I don't know. Happy would do the all-out leg flailing while asleep a few times, but not for very long at all... certainly not like that.
But we have no idea if the owner of this dog has already had their dog checked out or not, so it's just speculation...

 

[FluffyZooCrew]

Looks like a seizure to me too. Emmy has epilepsy, and seizures come in all shapes and sizes, so to speak. In dogs, seizures can appear as all sorts of things, from loss of balance, to exactly what that dog is doing in the video.

When I watched this one just now, my first thought was, "looks like he's having a seizure". My friends dog does something almost identical when it has a seizure, especially if she has a seizure while sleeping.