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I hope that’s allowed.
Bit concerned. I saw this on the vet page fb.
Cecil does this all the time, when he’s asleep, usually one leg but today at my friends he, I want to say collapsed but that sounds awful. When he’s really tired he just flakes out instantly, he’d been playing madly with friends pup and just fell asleep in the middle of the room and did this.
I said ah he always shivers when asleep but not all 4 legs and a bit odd then saw this post.
 
I’ve always thought it a nerve type thing, if I rest my forearm in a certain place it twitches.


Now I’m a tad scared! He’s my absolute world these days, my horses are all screwed, the old collie is on limited time. Seriously can’t handle my small boy going wrong ?
 
Oh my spaniel has done it on and off ever since she was a puppy. She's 10 now and as fit and well as ever. I'd say as fit and well as the next dog, but she is a spaniel so she's mildly neurotic, prone to hysteria and a bit bonkers ?
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I can't see the video but I think you have taken the movement/the comments out of context. Either that, or the vets haven't a clue what they are talking about. I have had a dog that had seizures, it is nothing like the twitching of a sleeping dog.
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this. I can't see the video either but can I suggest that when your dog is doing this you wake him up and get him to his feet straight away. If he is fitting it will be difficult, maybe impossible and he will probably be very disorientated and distressed.
If he just climbs lazily to his feet, recognises you and just takes a few moments to wake up he is probably twitching in his sleep and dreaming.
 
Ok thanks all! Had a bit of a panic there.
So it’s not quite like my other dogs do with the noise “chasing rabbits” sleep but I’ve not been overly worried until my friend today commented then I saw this clip.
I will film it next time.
 
poiuytrewq said:
Ok thanks all! Had a bit of a panic there.
So it’s not quite like my other dogs do with the noise “chasing rabbits” sleep but I’ve not been overly worried until my friend today commented then I saw this clip.
I will film it next time.
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Roxys is more like shivering - different from dream twitching but she wakes up fine from that just as any other deep sleep. She did it much more as a puppy but does occasionally as an adult dog. She's never done anything remotely like a fit when awake though, and she's always asleep before she starts to do it.
Again - using a spaniel as a neurologically ok starting point is questionable though
 
I can see the video, I think there are subtleties that vets see that we can't (it's also a very young puppy). There was a video on the horse version the other day that really was quite intense for dreaming but that was the vet conclusion.
 
PapaverFollis said:
I saw the horse version. MrT dreams exactly like that horse was doing... I've even seen him whinny in his sleep!
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I never saw a horse sleep and dream until fairly recently. One at work was actually galloping in his sleep ? someone called me worried, we stood watching it for a minute and realised he was just fast asleep!
 
ester said:
I can see the video, I think there are subtleties that vets see that we can't (it's also a very young puppy). There was a video on the horse version the other day that really was quite intense for dreaming but that was the vet conclusion.
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Ah ok, maybe you have to be a member of that particular group?
I did notice today that if I put pressure in certain places when Cecil is asleep that leg starts up. So it must be a nerve thing
 
That’s so sweet ?
Ours was a racehorse, he was a baby who’d never ran and we joked he’d been told by the big boys what happened and he was definitely in the lead ?
He’s since p’d up at ascot, practice went well ?
 
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