He had been turning to the right for two and a half years. Not occasionally, and not as a quirk. The circling had become the organizing fact of his day, and the immune drugs that were supposed to control the disease underneath it had stopped doing enough.
The dog is a three-year-old working cocker spaniel named Sidney, and his case appears in Veterinary Record Case Reports. What makes it worth reading is not the diagnosis. It is that after two and a half years of correct neurological treatment, the thing that finally improved his quality of life came from a completely different specialty.
