Rayjen

thanks everyone for your replies and best wishes

vet said without a full autopsy, we could not know whether is was a snake bite or a worse seizure. They had previously diagnosed idiopathic seizures.

No poison, small  lifestyle property. Neighbours had recent snake sightings.

We have just had a very sad  dog  experience. I am wondering how  unusual  this  story is?

Our 4 year  old pure  bred Kelpie has  had seizures for  about 2 years. About every 3  months and he would  come around after a couple  of minutes but each episode was very scary and we thought we had lost him a  couple  of times.

This time he had a seizure  in the house, but lost control  of his  bowels  which had  never happened before. We are  also  not sure  whether a snake  bite could have been involved  this  time.

After several  minutes he stood  up  but  did  not slowly recover  to be himself. He did not  seem to know  where  he  was and didn't come  to us. The back door  was  open  and he  came outside but he  wanted to get away from us, running in the  opposite  direction,  as if he was  spooked by us. For about 20 minutes 2  of us were trying  to corral/direct the dog to safety, but he kept running away.

Eventually  he  laid  down with another  seizure and we  got he car and  drove  to the  vet, but he  was gone.

What  we observed was a huge  burst of energy, almost manic energy and cunning, he found a way out of a gate that we thought was  secure. He  did  not seem to know us, or where  he  was, and  his  instinct was to get away from people.