https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/25539/acute-onset-but-transient-ataxic-episode-in-a-kelpie on my way back from Crufts I stayed, along with my family, at a farm B and B. We also had our four dogs, 3 border collies and a kelpie. ( 8yr old FN , fit and active) late monday the kelpie came on the bed whilst I was reading. She turned round asen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/176354?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:33:09 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:ff152d5f-77ff-4d34-aee1-cf1e1d28297ajanine redman<p>Thanks Mark , she went back to normal , even doing fun agility yesterday and was fine up till this afternon. She was with my father , got up from her bed and apparently rolled onto her side. Then went back to staggering around , ataxic on all four legs and unhappy. She is eating drinking and wanting to go for walk , doesn&#39;t seem in pain and I have not been able to see her today as is a very busy day at work.</p> <p>bloods normal , lungworm pcr negative,&nbsp;</p> <p>placing , propriocetion normal , no obvious pain , mentation normal at point of initial problem.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/176327?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:25:50 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:dd565455-19df-488d-9194-f41fe9013367Mark Lowrie<p><p style="background:white;">This is very difficult to diagnose or even characterise based on these signs. It could be anything from the relatively benign to something more serious. If it is recurrent then a video would be helpful to characterise it further. However, if it remains a one off then there are a number of possibilities (too many to list or to make a list worthwhile) but a single transient vestibular episode could be considered to be a transient ischaemic attack. Whichever way you look at it, if your dog is back to normal I would do nothing more than monitor for now.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--></p></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>