older collie having 'funny turns/loosing back end control'

[ester]

Hi all,

asking on behalf of a friend and her collie as I got to see her one of her odd turns for the first time yesterday, she will be taking a trip to the vets but as it is so intermittent and doesn't last very long I thought I would ask you lovely lot too!

Dog in question is (guesses!) 11/12, is arthritic she trots along fine out walking but does always look stiff when getting up after having been laid down, is on metacam and a joint supp.

Yesterday she was up and moving about when she went to tell younger dog off and seemed to loose control of her back end, tail goes right under and ended up wobbling into the sofa, then she panics a bit and if you let her would thrash her front end around trying to get up. If you sit her down and hold her still she shakes and then after a couple of minutes if that she got up and was fine again, trotted out to the garden etc.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

 

[Dizzydancer]

My old collie was very similar to that. She would only have them occasionally but as she got older they got worse and she dragged her back toes. We never found out what is was but vets thought maybe some kind of tumor along side of spine which sometimes pressed onto chord. She became incontinent at 15 and we had her pts.
Sorry not more positive

 

[CorvusCorax]

He needs to see a vet no matter how intermittent it might be. Might be a back issue, might be a lameness issue, might be a neurological condition called CDRM which starts in the hind legs, gets progressively worse and eventually travels up the body.
Best to get these things checked out

Dizzydancer that sounds like CDRM, starts with toe clenching/scraping in the hinds. Often misdiagnosed