Old beagle with seizures

Hello, My 9-year-old beagle had seizures for the first time. The first happened at 5 am shortly after he woke up, and another one happened later on the same day, during the night, shortly after he went to sleep. I believe the seizures he had are the "worst kind", because he falls down, his legs move uncontrollaby (as if he were running), plenty of foam comes out of his mouth and he keeps his eyes wide open. In the first episode, he also urinated and defecated. These seizures lasted no longer than 5 minutes, he then seems to take a few seconds to recognize us. Afterwards, he spends everal minutes following us around and crying (the sort of cry when he's sad), and it seems he doesn't want to be left alone. These things have never happened before. He's healthy and all his vaccines are up to date. We desperately took him to the emergency vet after the first episode up, but he was fine when we got there and everything seemed normal. They took some blood samples and we are waiting results. Anyways, it's always a good idea to hear different opinions. What you think might be happening to him? Is that normal?

Hello!  I'm afraid that fitting isn't normal at all, but you have described something that sounds like a fit, with the recognised stages including a normal recovery.  It is not unusual for fitting dogs to have normal bloods either, although blood-testing can help to rule out certain causes.   Primary epilepsy for example, doesn't show on blood tests and neither would a lot of space-occupying lesions inside the head.  "Space occupying lesions" can be blood or a tumour or benign growth or inflammation that puts extra pressure on the brain and could thereby potentially cause a fit. Sonetimes, chemicals in the blood - or lack of chemicals, such as glucose in hypoglycaemic puppies - can cause fit-like signs.  Frequently, an MRI is needed to check for space occupying lesions, but they don't always show anything.   You and your vet might have to agree on a few things - like whether and at what point a) controlling the symptoms and b) finding the cause are important.  I hope that something there helps.   If you type 'fit' into the search-bar of our blog, you will hopefully find some useful reading.

Regarding the blog-search, I just tested it out;  it turns out that our blog uses the medical term for fits, 'seizures.'   If you type 'seizure' into the blog search-bar, you will find a wealth of information.