Events of Mid October. We love Poppy so much. Within a short amount of time it felt like she had always been with us and we wanted the very best for her, as we do with all our pets. We have always researched where health and medical issues are concerned and my background in medical and veterinary fields have always helped with this. Ive always felt that in the Uk we over vaccinate our animals compared to many other countries and according to the drug company data sheets. Having said that i always felt the puppy course was important but also because it is a requirement for many training classes and kennels (not that ours have ever been kennelled but its good to have that option should an emergency arise).

Poppy had her first vaccination and advocate treatment with no problems whatsover. she simply slept more that evening and was back to normal the next day. Two weeks later on October the 13th she went for her second vaccination. The vaccination was given without any problems and she was microchipped at the same time- again with no problems. Within about half an hour though she was very hot and unsettled and within 2 hours she was staggering around and falling over, we were besides ourselves and got onto the emergency vet, who said to just keep an eye on her. We watched her all night and then when we got her up the next morning hoped she would be better. In a way she was as she was eating , drinking and playing as normal but she was having strange episodes of shaking and losing her balance so we rang the vets again and this time insisted they see her (in the meantime i was desperately searching the internet to give us more clues as to what was wrong). The vet checked her over but again told us to just watch her, by this time we were deperate for the weekend to be over so we could get on to our usual vets.

On the Monday we took her and she had an 'episode' in front of the vet so we were referred to the Willows referral centre in Solihul but with strict instructions to record and monitor any episodes in the meantime. This would be the start of a stressful journey and a long one!

I have uploaded a very short video of the sorts of symptoms she was getting.