Pitbulls Used to Be Considered the Perfect "Nanny Dogs" for Children --

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280. It's interesting that the attacks don't seem related

to the seizures, but rather to the meds.

I thought they might be in response to the seizures, because I think it's pretty well documented now that some dogs at least can detect an oncoming seizure in a human, even before the person feels it coming. In fact, one of my friends who has had epilepsy since childhood used to have a "seizure dog." This was a companion/service dog that was trained to help her during seizures by breaking her fall, barking for attention, trying to direct her to safety. The dog would start intervening even before my friend's "aura"--the strange feeling she'd get maybe five seconds before her seizure would start. I don't know very much about this, but from what I've heard dogs are sensitive to changes in electro-magnetic energy (one reason they're so scared during thunder storms?), and since epilepsy is essentially a burst of neuro-electrical discharges in a person's brain, it may be dogs can pick this up even before the person becomes aware.

Anyway, it's still a good idea to let the shelter manager know.

Best wishes, and hug your lab for me.