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Old 07-29-2011, 01:31 PM   #1
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Old 07-29-2011, 01:43 PM   #2
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Oh that's hilarious!
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Old 07-29-2011, 11:20 PM   #3
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Old 07-29-2011, 11:54 PM   #4
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Great video!
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Fainting goat kind of thing?
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Fainting goat kind of thing?
Never seen it in a dog. But there are two documented cases of cats with Fainting Goat Syndrome, at the Royal Vet College in London. The kittens grew out of it as adult cats:

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That had to be scarey to the owners the first few times it happened.
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That had to be scarey to the owners the first few times it happened.
It was. They didn't know what the F was going on...
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Never seen it in a dog. But there are two documented cases of cats with Fainting Goat Syndrome, at the Royal Vet College in London. The kittens grew out of it as adult cats:
http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/arc.../t-127322.html

Congenital Myotonia observed in "chow chow and miniature schnauzer as an autosomal recessive trait and likely inherited in other breeds: West highland white terriers, Labrador retrievers, Irish terriers, Samoyeds, and Staffordshire terriers."
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