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Opens a print-ready sheet. Use your browser's print dialog to print it or save it as a PDF. Two pages, six seizure entries.
Open the printable log →What's on the sheet
Each entry has room for the eight things a vet actually asks about at an appointment:
- Date
The day it happened.
- Start time
To the minute if you can. Time of day is one of the first patterns a vet looks for.
- Duration
How long the seizure itself lasted. The single most useful number you can record.
- Type
Generalised, focal, or unsure. Unsure is a perfectly good answer.
- Pre-seizure signs
Anything unusual in the minutes or hours before: pacing, clinginess, hiding, restlessness.
- Post-seizure signs and recovery time
Disorientation, pacing, temporary blindness, thirst, and how long until your dog was themselves again.
- Medications given
What was given, when, and how much, including any rescue medication.
- Notes
Anything else. Missed doses, a change of food, a long walk, a thunderstorm.
How to use it
- Put it somewhere reachable. On the fridge, in the drawer with the medication, wherever you'll actually be standing.
- Fill in the time first. If you write nothing else in the moment, write the start time. Duration comes from it, and duration is what matters most.
- Finish it once things are calm. The rest can wait until your dog has recovered and so have you.
- Take it to every appointment. A filled-in sheet answers the questions your vet is going to ask anyway, and it answers them from the record rather than from memory.
A written log is a record-keeping tool, not veterinary advice. If a seizure passes five minutes, or your dog hasseizures in a row, that is an emergency. Call your vet, don't reach for the sheet.
Paper or phone
Paper wins for the first thirty seconds. It's already on the wall, it doesn't need unlocking, and anyone in the house can use it. Where it struggles is later: adding up how many seizures happened last quarter, spotting that they cluster in the early morning, or getting the history to a vet who isn't standing in your kitchen.
That's the part Ellika is built for, and it's free. Log on paper if that's what works in the moment, then copy the entries over when things are calm. Either way, the record is yours and exports in one tap.
Related guides
- How long should a dog seizure last?
- Cluster seizures in dogs
- Check a prescribed dose as mg/kg
- Canine epilepsy resources and communities
Trouble with the printable, or want it in another format? Emailsupport@ellika.app.