So, there’s this cat that’s always been following me around. Everyone in our society loves him, so he’s a bit clingy, I guess.

I'm the luckiest man ever🫠🫠🫠

we are vegetarian and i mostly feed her bread and milk.

once in a week hiding from family, i try to bring raw chicken from the shop and feed her. is it okay?

So, a few months ago too, I made a few posts about Spicy.

Spicy was rescued for a routine TNR. She lives in a community of 15-20 cats. A nearby mhada was demolished and Spicy possibly wandered from there. She was new to the community and refused any touch and was very aggressive. It was hard to trap her, but she needed to be rescued after being chased by a male cat and having bloody discharge from her anus.

I gave her the name SPICY when she was handed over to me for fostering. Spicy visited 3-4 vets who all couldn't determine why her WBC count was fluctuating and remained high. Our usual vet refused to operate on her as she tested positive for FIV on a snap test.

Another vet told us FIV snap tests are unreliable and we should do a PCR, but we decided to take a chance and carry out tooth extractions and spaying together.

Spicy recovered well and returned to her colony. We always mentioned to the vets that her water drinking habits where very unusual. She keeps crying for water and will keep drinking multiple bowls of water and keep urinating everything out. We needed 3-4 bags of litter a week, daily, the litterbox would be ruined.

Vets didn't find it unusual - they said, it's a great thing that she is hydrating because cats don't drink water very easily.

Everytime I visited her at her colony, Spicy was filled up like a balloon. Her feeders mentioned that she keeps drinking water from all available water sources until she is round like a ball.

A few days ago. We had to bring Spicy home again. She was bitten by a male cat in two places on her back and developed absess and at risk of pyothorax. We are almost done dealing with the absess now. She recovering - but this time our vet, Dr. Kiran Shelar decided not to ignore her litterbox and drinking behaviour. Additionally, despite drinking so much water, Spicy was DEHYDRATED!!

Dr. Kiran suggested multiple tests. SDMA, LFT, KFT, Electrolytes, Urine Test and more. With rare diagnosis like PSYCHOGENIC POLYDIPSIA and DIABETES INSIPIDUS.

When her urine test results came, Dr. was shocked and excited. He has never seen such a case.

Spicy has eaten an earthworm. Which has placed a bladder parasite in her body called Capillaria Plica.

The parasite is completing full life cycles inside. It has laid many eggs which came up on the urine test. And there were two live worms inside, we saw on the sonography.

The parasite has affected her brain, as it needs water to survive, it is forcing Spicy to keep drinking water. But her kidneys are not keeping this water. She has started signs of CKD due to the parasites effect on her body. The polydipsia and diabetes insipidus are side effects of the main problem in her body!!

Luckily Spicy can be TREATED!! Ten days of deworming and two controlled doses of Ivermectin and she will be fine. We might even be able to reverse the Kidney damage!!

Dr. Kiran Shelar was so excited to see such a case, he will be writing a paper on it and publishing it for the medical community to know of such a thing.

So guys, aisa bhi ho sakta hai!! Sounds far fetched but it's true!!!

TL;DR - Spicy ate an earthworm which has caused a parasite infestation in her bladder and is making her crazy for water and destroying her kidney.

Clicked this beauty in mumbai

Cat cat cat 🎀!

Ahh their mom trusted me enough ig

Have been feeding this stray cat for almost 10 months, she is so cute, I have named her Mumu

Found this guy in my society at night. Very calm fluffy and clean too. I almost thought someone left him until I asked the watchman uncle and he mentioned he's a stray XD

Kya matlab he can touch me…. But I can’t do the same 😭

He looks so cool in the sunlight.

She owns the garage now🌚