So my dog, who’s around 6 or 7 years old, had an extreme allergic reaction to some shampoo we used him 4 years ago. Ever since then every few months he’ll go 1-3 days of having seizures. The time between seizures varies but it’s usually 2-13 hours. I’m terrified right now because this time around it’s really bad. He just had the first one at around 5:20 this morning. It was bad but his first one usually is, so as terrible as I felt, it wasn’t too bad. Until he had another one barely an hour later and it was even worse...that’s never happened before, especially not when they just started. For reference, the last time was in September, and his first two seizures were 5 hours apart, and the time before that (last year) almost 13 hours apart. They usually get a little bit worse as the days go on before they finally stop, he recovers, has a good long few months without them and being a happy, energetic little guy, and then the process repeats. My parents won’t take him to a vet because they never got him vaccinated and so they don’t want to get in trouble. Last time, my older brother was really close to deciding to shoot him to “put him out of his misery” (I don’t want the last thing for my dog to know is some woods and one of his beloved owners pointing a gun at him) and this time, like I said, it’s worse than probably ever before. I’m really, really terrified right now. This dog is so attached to me in particular. He follows me everywhere, and when I’m in a separate room he’ll scratch on the door and whine until I come out. When I’m away he’ll actively look for me and even responds when he hears someone say my name, when I sit down he’ll lay beside me or lay in my lap, he always sleeps beside me at night, when he sees me for the first time after a while, he’ll actually perk up, look really excited, and run up to me. I don’t think I could handle him dying at all, let alone him being taken out to the woods to be shot. I nearly lost my mind when he went missing a few years ago. I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, nothing I enjoyed was fun anymore, I felt like I was constantly on the verge of a panic attack, I felt like crying but couldn’t, and spent my time fake-laughing at funny pet videos to try and forget what was going on. He keeps going from laying on the bed to aimlessly walking around the house right now, he has been since he woke up from the second seizure 40 minutes ago...I can’t stand seeing him like this. I nearly had a panic attack when his second seizure started and had to go outside for a few minutes. Is there anything I could do for him at all? Anything that has even the slightest chance of helping him? Anything that could help me calm down? I’m trying to comfort him but he just looks at me, whines, and then walks away.
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