Could this be epilepsy?

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I have never had any experience of epilepsy either in humans or animals. But what happened to Sasha today and my subsequent searches on the internet just now have made me think this is what happened today. I will try to keep the story short, but what does anyone think? Sasha is a fit and healthy 7 month old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Never had any problems other than she doesn't really like dog food!! Usual Christmas morning. For breakfast I had a bacon sandwich and gave Sasha a couple of bits of the bacon. We then went to OH mothers for our lunch taking the dog with us. Sasha had a couple of crisps. Then we thought as treat she could have some Christmas dinner and she had a bit of turkey, pork, a sausage wrapped in bacon and some mashed potato. Ate all but the potato. About half an hour later mother in law took Sasha for a 20 minute walk. Sasha came in happy and wagging her tail to see us all again. And then started she started crying like she wanted a wee, and then what looked like limping with her front leg, then her back left leg joined in and she seemed to be stumbling. She sat down and started to tremble but still sat up. I grabbed my bag and her blanket to rush to the vet as had never seen anything like it before in my life. We wrapped her in the blanket and picked her up and she was still trembling and she looked so scared (poor little thing). Other family members said just wait a couple of minutes and someone said maybe she had eaten something she shouldn't have. I said that she had eaten a lot of rubbish today (thinking we were treating her as it was Christmas) and looked and she had no water bowl down. We sat down with her and gave her a cup of water and she drank nearly all of it but the more she drank the more she seemed to calm down and stop trembling. We kept hold of her for 5 minutes and then she wanted to get down and was fine after that. I searched on the internet when we got home and looked at maybe dehydration or even a salt overdose. But then went looking at epilepsy. Many of the symptoms seemed to fit her age, the thirst, the worry on her little face. But other symptoms didn't. Some websites say they go ridgid and start to paddle which she didn't. Any thoughts or advice appreciated please........
 
It does not sound typically like a fit....she could possibly have had a reaction to all the food stuff u gave her...pork is not so good for some dogs...some dogs dont take reaction and others do....I would keep an eye on her....if she has another funny turn I would get her to the vets.
Maybe a quick once over wouldnt harm her...cavis come with an awfull lot of health problems..esp as they get older.
Dont go worrying yourself...whatever happened...she made a swift recovery.
 
Thanks for that. I know Cavaliers have a lot of probs and made sure we got one whose parents had been heart monitored etc. And we had her checked over when we first got her and the vet said her heart was find and no probs at all with her, not even the poppy eyes the sometimes have. But it is bad enough when the horses are ill but to see the little look on her face, she looked so scared. We will keep a very close eye on her from now on and no more feeding her rubbish whatever time of year it is or how much she pleads with her eyes.
 
My uncle had a dog with epilepsy and the symptoms weren't like that at all. I'm sure Cala is right and it has more to do with what she ate
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my friends dog had epilepsy and when she had a fit she often pee'd herself and it was very clear she was having a fit her eyes went blank tongue hanging out, teeth showing
 
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