Something truly amazing happened to us Tuesday. We have three miniature Dachshunds, ages 8, 9 and 9, all very healthy and active (they hike in the Sierra foothills with us about 50 miles/wk on average). Tuesday just after noon my wife was getting ready to go to work when I noticed that one of the guys (Gunny), who had just been on our bed barking at something out the window, was having a seizure on the living room floor. It was fairly brief, but then over the next 10 minutes or so proceeded to have 2 more. Our vet was closed for lunch and the phone message directed us to the Animal Emergency Hospital, which as it turns out is only open after hours and weekends. However, when we arrived there the owner (a mostly retired older vet) came to the door in response to our ring. On the drive to the vet's, Gunny had stopped breathing and his heart rate slowed to under 20, so my wife was giving him breaths while I squeezed his chest with one hand and drove with the other. Anyway, after first telling us they were closed the older vet brought us right back (Gunny's gums were blue-black by now and he had no heartbeat) got him intubated and pinked him up a bit. Then we tracked down our usual vet (who of course is off on Tuesdays) and arranged to meet him at his hospital. That involved getting an oxygen tank and a breathing bag for us to transport him over there, where he started seizing again (fortunately after they had managed to start an IV), which continued off and on for about another 45 minutes and finally stopped after a total of 10 mg of IV Valium (he's a 10 lb. dog; 5 mg is a typical adult human dose). During this time his pulse and blood pressure went sky high and he wasn't breathing (I was still bagging him). Amazingly, a few minutes later he started blinking his eyes, then breathing and of course frantic to get the ET tube out! His pulse and BP returned to normal and his lab work also came back normal. By the next morning (yesterday) he was acting as though nothing had happened! (although he was still a bit hungover from the Valium). Today he acts totally normal.