kenbro
Well-Known Member
PGSD.
4 + years ago my SIL who lives in Portsmouth called us (Manc) saying she’d seen some Border pups for sale in Yorkshire and would we (Being nearer) ride over and look, with a view to buying 2 for herself and 1 for her daughter.
We already had 2 dogs so didn’t need more.
We went to look and played with the puppies and mother for a bit then paid deposits on 3 dog pups.
There was 1 bitch that took a shine to us but the owner said someone was going to send a deposit for her.
These dogs where expensive like many others at the tail end of Covid when prices seemed to rocket!
1750 each but haggled to 1500 for taking 3.
The next day the owner called us saying no deposit had been paid for the bitch, did we want her?
Course we did.
We picked the 4 dogs up 3 weeks later and Sis in law came from Portsmouth and took 3 back with her.
Since then one of hers died in tragic circumstances. (Since replaced)
At 3.5 years old our bitch started having these kind of seizure things so off to the Vet.
PGSD or commonly called Spike’s disease. the Vet said it’s quite common but only mainly in Border Terriers.
These episode only last for a few minutes but it’s not nice to experience and apparently the dogs feel pain when it’s happening.
Vet recommended a Gluten free diet which we follow, but these things still occur, the last being last evening. Belle tries to get near you when it come on but yesterday she tried to jump off her chair to come to me but just collapsed mid air.
Sister in laws’ 2 pups from the same litter have both recently started with the same thing but the dog she got to replace the one that died came from different parents and has been fit free, up to now.
Anyone else on SD with Border got the same?
We wondered if it was a gene passed down as 3 dogs from one litter do this and another from a different litter seems okay.
Cheers, Ken.
4 + years ago my SIL who lives in Portsmouth called us (Manc) saying she’d seen some Border pups for sale in Yorkshire and would we (Being nearer) ride over and look, with a view to buying 2 for herself and 1 for her daughter.
We already had 2 dogs so didn’t need more.
We went to look and played with the puppies and mother for a bit then paid deposits on 3 dog pups.
There was 1 bitch that took a shine to us but the owner said someone was going to send a deposit for her.
These dogs where expensive like many others at the tail end of Covid when prices seemed to rocket!
1750 each but haggled to 1500 for taking 3.
The next day the owner called us saying no deposit had been paid for the bitch, did we want her?
Course we did.
We picked the 4 dogs up 3 weeks later and Sis in law came from Portsmouth and took 3 back with her.
Since then one of hers died in tragic circumstances. (Since replaced)
At 3.5 years old our bitch started having these kind of seizure things so off to the Vet.
PGSD or commonly called Spike’s disease. the Vet said it’s quite common but only mainly in Border Terriers.
These episode only last for a few minutes but it’s not nice to experience and apparently the dogs feel pain when it’s happening.
Vet recommended a Gluten free diet which we follow, but these things still occur, the last being last evening. Belle tries to get near you when it come on but yesterday she tried to jump off her chair to come to me but just collapsed mid air.
Sister in laws’ 2 pups from the same litter have both recently started with the same thing but the dog she got to replace the one that died came from different parents and has been fit free, up to now.
Anyone else on SD with Border got the same?
We wondered if it was a gene passed down as 3 dogs from one litter do this and another from a different litter seems okay.
Cheers, Ken.
