* Not all pet dogs react well to seizures. A report in the journal Seizure from the year 2000 noted that some dogs “may resort to a survival strategy: flight (run away, withdrawal, escape, avoidance), fight (attack, aggressive defence, protective behaviour), freeze (tonic immobility) or appeasement (conflict behaviour, vocal distress, submission or flirtatious play). Any of these behaviours will be based on a fearful and basic survival strategy.” Although it is extraordinarily rare, sometimes people get hurt—or even killed. In August 2018 a Cincinnati woman’s mixed-breed dog mauled her to death during her seizure. In 2016 two German shepherds killed a man who was having a seizure in his home near Cairo, Egypt.