No, he's not doing what it looks like.
Look again. Zhenya was actually cooling his backside in his water dish (and drooling). It would have been hilarious, if he hadn't been so miserable. Our poor cat had kidney stones.
We didn't know what was wrong, but it was obvious that he was in agony and was trying anything for relief. I thought he was going to die. On Monday Will took him to the vet. He had to stay and help, and apparently it was terrible! Poor Zhenya wouldn't have lasted much longer without treatment. It looks like he's on the mend now, though.Will is going to be qualified to work as a veterinary assistant after all this. Zhenya has to have oral medicine every two hours and four shots a day. Will is taking care of all that. We had no idea that a little street kitten could be so much trouble! So far, he's had a terrible time with one surgery, fallen off the balcony, developed a very sensitive stomach, and now he's had kidney stones. I don't believe in babying animals, but just being a good pet owner is a challenge with this one. Sigh.
He is a good little kitty, when he's not driving us crazy. 
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...and he's a much loved kitty. Grandpa would have been very proud of Will.
We've had experience with this! I feel your pain!!! One thing our vet said to do to prevent future problems is to feed 'wet' food. Our cat loves the dry crunchies to the point of eating the dog food... so it's a battle. You can just soak his food in warm water to get it to rehydrate. Of course, more water is good for flushing kidneys but makes for more litterbox changes...
One of our other cats is having crazy allergy issues - so just before we left for Costa Rica we started feeding raw ground beef for a while to let all the other foods get out of their systems. I didn't know how much to give them so I portioned out what I thought and froze it in daily servings to make it easy for David and Jesse. We came home after two weeks to a household of butterball cats!! Zach's little calico was literally almost round! Nobody is happy with the reduced portions but they are starting to look like cats again.
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