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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 space for details you may want to share with your vet:
- Date
The day it happened.
- Start time
To the minute if you can. This helps your vet look back at when the seizures happened.
- Duration
How long the seizure itself lasted. Use a timer if you can.
- 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. Note when it stops too, so you can record the duration.
- Finish it once things are calm. Add the other details once your dog is safe and you have a moment.
- Take it to every appointment. It can help you and your vet look back over what has happened since the last visit.
A written log is a record-keeping tool, not veterinary advice. If a seizure lasts five minutes or more, or your dog has seizures in a row, that is an emergency. Call your vet, don't reach for the sheet.
Paper or phone
Use whichever is easiest for you. A printed sheet can be handy by the medication or on the fridge, especially when someone else is helping with care. A digital log can make it easier to look back through dates and share them with your vet.
I use Ellika for Ella's records. If you want to use it alongside this sheet, you can copy your entries over later. There is no need to use the app to use the printable.
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
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