What Do I Do About My Epi-Dog's Medications With the Time Change?

November marks Epilepsy Awareness Month and it also marks the end to Daylight Saving Time, a time for clocks to "fall back" in many areas on November 7th at 2 AM EST. A question I am asked a lot, and do see often asked in dog epilepsy groups, is, "What do I do about my dog's medication when the clocks go back?" If your Epi-dog (dog with Epilepsy) is on specifically timed medications, you will want to adjust his schedule a few days ahead of time, or at least for the first day of the new time change, stagger the dosage times. My FiveSibes Epi-tip is actually a simple formula for helping adjust your Epi-dog's medication doses to keep it as close to "normal" as possible. For example, if your pet typically gets his medications at 7 AM and 7 PM, for the first day of end of DST, give the AM dosage at the new fall-back time of 6:30 (true time would be 7:30, a half hour later than usual), and give the 7 PM dosage at 6:30 (true time wo