At 7am on St. Patrick's Day, when we went to let our sweetest boy Gus out...

The big Malinois who wants nothing more than to sit in your lap...

We noticed he had thrown up overnight...and he was doing this weird thing with his face. His lips were twitching ever so slightly.

We reached out to our vet who had us give him some fluids and medication. But it didn't help. In fact, the twitching seemed to be getting worse. And as we hung out with our normally happy-go-lucky guy, we noticed he seemed very fearful (not normal for him). He was flinching at everything and normal every day stuff had him shying away and not wanting to move.

We decided the best next step was a trip to the Animal ER so we made the hour long trek to get him seen, and hopefully get some answers.

Long story short, we ran a slew of tests which all came back squeaky clean. Awesome for Gus, but challenging for us as the tests gave us no clues as to what could be going on.

We decided to leave Gus overnight so he could be monitored and treatment could continue.

When I called to check on him before going to bed, I learned he had a Grand Mal seizure, which was successfully stopped with medication. When I checked in this morning, they told me although he didn't have any additional major seizures, the facial twitching was still pretty constant, which meant we were no closer to an answer than we were when we dropped him off.

After a lengthy discussion with our vet, and the vets at the emergency hospital, we decided to try two new treatments, and run an additional test. Gus will be hanging out at the hospital for the day in hopes we can figure this out and get him the help he needs.

Please send all of your healing energy and good vibes to Gus. Leaving him last night was so, so hard and we are all so incredibly worried about him.

If you'd like to donate to his care, which is already at almost $3,000, you can do so here, or call the vet directly. He is at Animal Emergency and Specialty Center in Poulsbo, WA. We so appreciate you.

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