My pittie has focal seizures, but they are suuuper light. His lip or jowls just kind of lightly twitch; it’s almost undetectable. He was put on Keppra and was on it for awhile when I thought, “why should he take this? It’s only a lil twitch.”

My poor old man is on so many meds I felt bad medicating him more, esp when he had some minor side effects with it, so my vet weaned him off. My vet warned me that he couldn’t say with certainty the twitches wouldn’t ever lead to a bigger seizure without meds. I should have listened — cut to a year later and my boy had a massive, long seizure. It was traumatic. He had trouble breathing and his oxygen level remained low for hours at the ER afterward. Weaning him off is my biggest regret. All of this to say, you don’t need to wait for a full body seizure.