Earlier today around 2pm, we were playing with our kitten, Noodles. He is a crazy active cat, and he was jumping after the string doing backflips and everything else in the air. He jumped after the string as it swung, jumped off the bed, hit the wall (not hard), landed on the floor on all fours, then he started pawing at the wall as if chasing a shadow and immediately went in to a seizure that lasted 2 minutes. It was awful, and scary and it completely freaked me out.

We took him to the vet IMMEDIATELY, he's still there under observation by my choice because we were supposed to take him home, and he was shivering, and the vet is unable to tell me what is wrong with him.

He's 5 months old, yesterday we took him to the vet where he received a booster and a rabies shot. This happened at 9:00am on Saturday. Our vet does not believe there to be any correlation between the booster/rabies vaccination and the seizure.

She ran a slew of blood tests and all she told me from that is that his "Urea" was a little low, but she said she didn't see it as a concern, and his "Red Blood Cell Count" was a little high at 41, but she it was probably due to dehydration.

Can a cat have a seizure if it is dehydrated? Would it be likely that the vaccinations could have caused it? Is it possible he was just exercising too much (we played with him for a good 29 minutes of nonstop jumping and running)?

I'm just unsettled because she said the blood tests didn't really turn up anything that unusuall, and she said he seemed to be acting normal, just really tired and stressed. I don't know what to do. I'm so terrified that it will happen again, it was a terrible terrible thing to witness and we were so helpless to be able to do anything for him, and what happens if it occurs again when we're not home? I'm so scared

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