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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Tumor, or nerve injury, but it could also be a bleeding blood vessel or clot in the spinal column.Symptoms include:StumblingDragging their toesPaws bending under when walking, causing the dog to walk on their knuckles (loss of proprioception)SwayingVestibular AtaxiaVestibular ataxia occurs when the inner ear or brainstem isn’t functioning normally and interferes with a dog’s balance. Potential causes include hypothyroidism, ear infections, inner ear or brainstem tumors, head or ear trauma, strokes, infections caused by canine distemper, inflammation of the brain, thiamine deficiency, and metronidazole toxicity. Although a dog at any age may be affected, senior dogs sometimes get acute vestibular disease or idiopathic vestibular disease. This appears when a dog suddenly becomes unbalanced. It usually doesn’t get worse and often improves quickly. This is also caused by an issue in the dog’s middle or inner ear.Symptoms include:Head tilted to one sideUncoordinated gaitCircling, usually toward the side of the lesion (unless the cause is cerebellar, in which case the circling is often contralateral, meaning it’s related to the other side of the body)Eyes moving jerkily from side to side, up and down, or circling (a condition called nystagmus)Inability to stand and repeatedly rolling over to one sideExcessive salivationMoving in circles in the same directionWhy Do Dogs Get Ataxia?Ataxia is caused by an injury, infection, inflammation, or toxin that affects the dog’s nervous system. In some cases, ataxia happens because of a neurological disease or infection. Some examples of these include encephalitis, tumors, spinal cord disease, head trauma, inner-ear infections, vertebral infections,
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