Poisoned Dog?

[moodygirl]

I have a dog that is 1/2 coon hound and !/2 ?black lab. All of a sudden yesterday it looked like she was have a seizure. She was shaking, staggering, falling down, drooling with froth at her lips. She also pooped at the start of this which she never does in the house. The stool was normal. I gave her peroxide to make her throw up (nothing unusual in it). She settled down after about 30 min. and rested a couple hours and then seemed O.K.
I don't trust my neighbor for reasons I won't bother to go into now. I know if you take your dog to a vet hospital for suspected poisoning they give it some kind of charcoal stuff. It absorbs the poison and keeps it from going into the digestive track.

My question is: has anyone ever used this charcoal and how is it administered? I know a pharmacy where it is sold and want to get some to keep on hand. It seems things happen after hours and the nearest vet hospital is an hour and a half away. Too far for a real emergency and you might as well hand them over $500.00 at the start.

[rivervu2]

Seems to me that if your dog were truly poisoned he wouldn't have gotten over it that quickly. I had a dog years ago with a seizure disorder and his symptoms sound just like your dog's. One day he had a seizure and then, every once in a while, he'd have another one. I know that your vet can put him on medication if it becomes a problem.

As for the charcoal, I've never had experience with it.

[aMarinesgirl69]

I know that there are certain human foods that all dogs shouldnt have but some react really bad too. Just google foods that dogs shouldnt have and it will give you a list and a description of what it does to the dog.

Onions make them anemic, grapes I think is the thing that gives them seizure, there's always the ole antifreeze but that should have killed the dog if that was it, and there's a bunch of other that I can't remember. I think nuts were on there somewhere. Anyways, I'm pretty sure one of the symptoms was seizure from one of the foods but I can't remember what.
Good Luck
Ali

[moodygirl]

Thank you for the ideas on what can cause seizures in dogs. I never would have thought of foods. My cousin's beagle ate some really rotten meat. On the way to the vet he was throwing it up so he was sure what the problem was. At the animal hospital they said it was parvo and charged him $400. It wasn't parvo.