Help us learn about idiopathic epilepsy in PBGVs
How many PBGVs experience seizures?
The Health & Rescue Foundation of PBGVCA has teamed up with the AKC Canine Health Foundation to fund a study looking at the prevalence and clinical features of idiopathic epilepsy, a chronic seizure disorder, in PBGVs in North America.
Point your smartphone camera at the QR code on the left or click on it.
This will lead to a very simple survey that we are asking ALL PBGV owners in North America to complete, regardless of whether you have owned a dog with seizures.
The survey will ask:
How many PBGVs have you owned that were born between 2010 and 2024?
How many of these dogs experienced seizures?
You can also get to the survey HERE.
If none of your PBGVs have experienced seizures, then your job is done.
Owners who have had PBGVs with seizures will be asked to provide their email if they consent to complete a second more detailed survey. The purpose of the second survey is to differentiate idiopathic epilepsy from other causes of seizures and determine the characteristic clinical features of idiopathic epilepsy in PBGVs.
Do you need this information on a printable flyer? Click HERE.
Responses from all surveys will remain confidential.
For questions regarding this study or to preview the second more detailed survey prior to participation, please email cvmepilepsy@ncsu.edu