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I could hear a really odd noise in the kitchen so I switched off all electrical items and found that the sort of drumming noise was coming from Cecil! Then his head started shaking, he was blinking really fast and he had twitches all over his face, he stood up a few times but his back end seemed to slip away from him and in the end he stayed lying down. He gradually came out of it but seemed a bit vague and detached so I rang the vet. As the problem had stopped she suggested I bring him in during the week for blood tests, when I went back in the kitchen he had started again so rang vet back and arranged to take him in. Blood tests show liver and kidney failure, his pancreatitis is not controlled, he is anaemic and his calcium levels are wrong, I forget what she said about that bit He already has loads of fatty lumps all over him but also has some internal ones that cannot be confirmed as harmless and could be doing anything inside him. Any or all of the above could be causing the seizures, vet says he may never have another, he could have loads of little ones or he could throw a major fit, it's impossible to predict. There is also something going on in his throat but he won't allow it to be looked at and a GA is out of the question. Vet doesn't think there is much in the way of treatment in view of his complex problems, she did think he should go back on the Royal Canin for his pancreatitis but he hates it and won't even look at it. He's on Burns and Chappie and is eating fine even today. He is losing weight, he's very deaf and his sight is poor. He has dementia and is begining to pace and stare at walls, he gets the hinge side of the door when asking to go out and gets lost in the top part of the garden and has to be retrieved and his back end is very weak. But he insisted in going out this afternoon, did some very unbalanced jumpy things and rushed round to the car! He can get in with a helping hand under his bum but needs a ramp to get out. We had a very short walk, he would have gone further but I think that's the dementia taking over because once back in the car he flops out flat for a while. We are a seriously slippery slope and I know his time is running out fast, he's 15 now and I thought he would go on forever. I'm going to have to make a decision at some point and it may be a lot sooner than I thought it would be. I wish they didn't have to get old!