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20/12/2021

Just a quick announcement, Emily is now THREE months seizure free!!!

If you'd like to follow her on a daily basis our IG is hounds_of_liberation

We don't post much on FB.

CONGRATULATIONS EMILY!!!!

28/08/2021

A cute picture of George our Bedlington wearing a beautiful jacket that Debs Wood made for Emily, George needs a warm coat because we have had to shave him bald for his next vet appointment lol.

But seriously how cute is the sewing of Emily's face on this jacket!? Looks just like her.

Next to George is our jura hound Julio. Emily's sleeping buddy, these two always go upstairs alone to snooze next to one another every evening

05/08/2021

Just a quick update you all might want to be aware of.

Every month Emily has serizures. And often they would cluster. It was really hard to manage.

Last month she had a seizures and we gave her an increased dose of Keppra. The seizures stopped and then she had another a day later, increased the dose and they stopped and that was that.

This month she had a seizure a few days ago. We increased the Keppra dose and she's been fine since! Touch wood she's not had another!

So considering we used to have to admit her, and we used to go through her having seizures over and over and over once a month, about 7 in 24 hours, we've done well to get it under control like this ♥️.

Thought y'all may want to be aware of this good news ♥️.

31/07/2021

Emily with her Jura hound brother, Julio ♥️♥️♥️♥️

22/04/2021

Hello all. This is a call to action, any help would be greatly appreciated. We have started a fundraiser to help us with vet costs for Emily, Emily has been seizure free for two months and her brain has healed a lot in that time, no more near-divergent like behaviour, a lot more present and attuned to what is around her.

Unfortunately while she was sleeping next to me, I woke up to her having a seizure, and the clusters began, we increased her dose of Keppra (the brilliant meds that have stopped her having seizures) and finally managed to get her to take it just after her third seizure, the first two fits happened back to back so we didn't want to stress her trying to give her a tablet.

Anyway, it worked, the clusters were stopped dead and no more seizures, Emily recovered nicely. She's been fine since, the post seizure absent behaviour only lasted about an hour rather than for days.

We have been working to pay off a £1500 vet bill for Emily, and the monthly meds on top of it all (she's on 4 sets of meds given three times a day) has made it hard to keep on top of it, but we have managed to reduce it to £450.

So far we have raised £150 from our kind supporters on Instagram, this is where we post about our micro sanctuary (we have 8 rescue dogs), we don't post much on FB. If you want to follow us there its lonely_vegans

We are asking if anyone could share this post far and wide and if possible donate, our PayPal is [email protected]

Whenever we fundraise for other charities/sanctuaries as well as for ourselves, we ALWAYS provide receipts of money going into our PayPal and the money that goes out either to the vet directly or sanctuary/charity- so you will have piece of mind as to where your donation will be going, this is how Keith and I have always operated.

We are struggling to pay off the last of the vet bill so please if you can help, that would be amazing.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, love from us all and of course, Emily and her best friend dashund Pooh

04/04/2021

Emily has been seizure free since Feb 20th. So it's been well over a month. The longer the time passes seizure free the more of her personality shines through. There's no more pacing, no more odd behaviours. She's settled in totally now with all of our 7 dogs 😁🥰. For anyone wondering the new meds stopping the seizures is, they are called Keppra. 😁

21/02/2021

Hey all. So, unfortunately Emily seems to be having clusters every month. They last about 24 hours. We spend all night up with her and it's so exhausting, can't even imagine how exhausting it is for her 😫. We have also noticed that we both smell burning before each seizure starts. Which is weird.
Both of us have gotten good at spotting super quick when she's about to seizure. I've even woken up in the middle of the night and grabbed her because I just felt her move strangely next to me.
She's currently on phenobarbital, potassium bromide and she has melatonin to stop her pacing. The melatonin has worked well to help her sleep like a log each night, in bed with us of course 🤩.
I also have her near us so we can't be there when she seizes. We did have her admitted for 24 hours, we had tests done, and that cost us £500 and everything (bloods) came back as normal. Her meds cost an absolute fortune too 😫. But whatever she needs! 🐕
She's also on re**al diazepam, the max dose for her weight to break the cluster seizures but unfortunately it doesn't work. Nothing works to stop them short of sedating her but we can't sedate her every month. That would be s**t for her health.
We are going to try her on Levetieracetam (Keppra) and I've heard from a number of ppl with epileptic dogs that this does work to stop clusters occuring. So hopefully fingers crossed this will work. We are going to add it to her already existing medication regimen.
Our aim is to stop the cluster seizures happening. I don't want her brain going through that many seizures in 24 hours. I worry one day it will damage her brain and she will not come back from them the same. I also want her to have a long life and these clusters will eventually not allow for that.
So if we can find something to stop the clusters that will really improve her quality of life.
At the moment she's happy, she's not in pain through these seizures, she gets stressed and disorented but she's not in pain, that's my main concern and we aren't at that point and hopefully won't ever be.
Yesterday she played OFF LEAD for the first time with our lurcher, she was amazing!
Today she went for a nice forest walk with our Jura hound Julio and her new best friend, our dashund, Poo 🐅. Poo really loves her 😍.

09/01/2021

Just an update from Miss Emily. Emily is super settled, happy and a cheeky monkey ### All the dogs get on with her and she seems to have a very sweet bond with our Jura hound, Julio.
She's not had any seizures for over a month now (touch wood). We got her onto Melatonin to control her night time pacing and it has worked wonders.
She still eats her poo and will not poo outside for some reason so, yah, lots of Emily p**p packages in the house for us and they STINK lol.
She sleeps in bed with us every night. We love her so so much. Hope everyone is well 😁
Oh and I forgot to say, my work reduced my online classes with my kids because Emily kept bobbing her cute head up and propping herself on my shoulder and the kids LOVED it, the company didn't though. Ooops. 😂

12/12/2020

Can't get over how beautiful she is. She's had another vulval infection. Back on antibiotics again. I've figured out why she gets these infections. When she squats to wee it's like her back legs are double jointed.....she literally does the splits and the tip of her lady bit touches the floor so she's exposing herself to germs 😫😫😫😫😫😫. I do clean her though when she does that to try and minimise any complications.
Touch wood no more seizures. She's totally relaxed in the house now 🥰🤩. She also seems to have a connection with our other Jura hound, Julio. 🤩🥰. I think they both know they are Jura's 🤗.
Hope everyone is safe, well and happy 😎.

29/11/2020

Hey all. Sorry I don't use face book much, we post alot about Emi and our gang mostly on IG so if you all want regular updates on Emi and her progress you can find us using our IG handle lonely_vegans
For now though here are some pics of Emi. She's settling in really well. When she first got here she was super disorientated. Scratching at the walls alot and constantly pacing. She had a seizure a day after she got here and then two on one day a day or two later.
Our vet was brilliant and on the phone with us through it all (as it happened during the night) and booked us in to see him right away. The seizures are likely due to the stress from the move and change in environment.
She's not had any seizures since and has stopped her pacing. She scratches at walls a little bit still but I think that is due to her irregular brain activity as a result of her epilepsy and there could be a slight degree of brain damage as a result of the repeated seizures she had back to back a while ago.
She's a really bright, sharp and intelligent girl, she's absolutely beautiful and so funny. She has a bee line for our dashund and likes to paw at his bum when he's asleep which really pi**es him off and she doesn't care 🤪😂😂😂😂. We take the dogs on 90 minute walks but Emily we walk twice a day when she's restless.
She's sleeps in bed with us every night with our other female Cyrpus hound, dashund and basset hounds 🥰.
Have attached pics of our other dogs too so that you can all see Emi's brothers and sister 🥰🐾
I think that's all to update on for now. If you all want to get more regular updates on Emi find us on Instagram 🤩.

24/11/2020

Hey all. Some pics of Emily in her new home for you all 🥰

15/11/2020

Thank you so much to everyone that has shared and commented on the post about rehoming Emily.
We are so happy to say that Emily has been adopted and today left her foster home of almost 11 months to go to her new home up North with some amazing adopters and 7 other doggies who will love to play with her.
She is currently on her way to her new home which was perfect in every way for her, it was exactly what we were looking for and hoped for. She will have a new Mum and Dad who are home in the day, always around and can take her out multiple times a day. She is going to have the best life but we could not have done it without all of your support. A big thank you to everyone who shared and donated and allowed us to get input from a Neurologist and pay her many many vets bills. Without this we never could have got her well enough to be rehomed. A few months ago things looked bleak and several vets feared she had a tumour or brain disease. But now her seizures are far more managed and she is going weeks without a seizure (most importantly when she has one it is only one, not several). Thank you, thank you, thank you, you are absolutely amazing and we cannot thank you enough ❤️.
- From Emi's foster mum Helen ❤️💕

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