Cat had an electric shock. What should I do?

[Dheeksha]

What did your dvm say? Do they think it was a shock? There is no way for any of us to determine what caused this. If your fridge has never shocked anyone and there are no loose wires etc. it does not suggest a shock to me. You can have a repair person check out the fridge, and the outlet it is plugged in to, which I would do right away if you are worried about that. I hope your kitty is ok.

Vet checked him and said he is fine. Told me to bring him again.
Some of my cats climb on the fridge. This is the first time something like this has happened.

 

[FriendofFerals]

When he fall from the fridge. He still was shaking like he got an electric shock. I placed him on the sofa. Even then he was shaking. It happened for a minute. He didn't move at all after that. I thought he was.. And started giving him CPR. Maybe he got fainted and came into consciousness after that. He looked around blankly for some time. After about 15 minutes he responded to my touch and walked around the house. Sat next to me and asked me to pet him. Don't know what happened to him. That was very scary.
Please tell me if it is an electric shock they won't shake like that after removing from the electric object, right?
@silent meowlook FriendofFerals

Wires are usually hidden behind the fridge but not ON the fridge.

I have a cat that suddenly fell from a coffee table and did not land on his feet (several years ago). He lay there stunned for a moment and then tried to drag himself from the room with his hind legs unable to move. Then, within 15 minutes, he regained function. The same thing (without a fall) happened the next day (an appointment was made to the vet but not an emergency clinic) and he went stiff, rolled on his back like he was dead and I thought this was the end.

He recovered and stumbled again to the other room. The vet suspected a possible blood clot in an artery that controls the back legs and sent us to a cardiologist who did an ultrasound and found a very slight murmur (0.5 on a scale of 1 to 10) and mild right ventricle enlargement. They also noted a severe inner ear infection which I knew about but was unable to medicate because this cat was a feral transitioning to indoors. I could barely trap him to take him to a vet, let able put drops in his ears three times a day for 15 days. I did my best over the next 4 months to get the Tresaderm drops in and the infection cleared up. That episode never happened again.

It **could** be that it has nothing to do with a shock from the fridge but maybe there is an inner ear/vestibular balance issue caused by an ear infection (caused by allergies). The only way to know for sure is to go to a vet, run the tests and figure out whether electricity was involved, or whether there might be an internal issue or even a balance issue from something like an ear infection.

When I saw my cat fall, go stiff, roll his eyes back in his head, and then wake up and drag his legs.... I thought for sure it was an aneurism or some kind of stroke. But it was a really bad ear infection from living outside feral for 12-15 years and now 5 years later he has never had an episode like that again.

Bottom line: get to a vet, explain everything, do what they say, even if they refer you to a specialist, and find out what happened. Sometimes it just needs some eardrops and is nothing scary at all.