First I am sorry for your loss. Now a question. Why couldn't it be taken care of? I have had severe bladder infections where I don't know it until my urine is full of blood and then it hurts. I go to the doctor and they give me antibiotic to clear it up. Why couldn't they do that with your cat?
The only time I've ever seen one recover is my boy cat. We put him on reverse osmosis water that actually pulls minerals out of the body.
/johnny
The vet could not put the catheter up into his bladder because he was so blocked. The vet said that surgery wouldn’t have been a guarantee that it would not happen again.
Plus the surgery would have cost an arm and a leg.
Male cats get crystals in their urine, it is a common problem, sometimes they can be saved by putting them on special urinal foods. I have a male that has to eat this stuff, it has to be by prescription only, for some reason. I have another male that I feed this food to also just in case and also my female eats it because it is too hard to separate them at feeding time. I got lucky, my vet told me that if he had another attack I would have to put him down but it has been three years now and he is fine. My advice to any male cat owner, find food specifically made for the Urine problem for male cats and use it exclusively, it is not as good as the vet prescribed stuff but it usually works if they have never had an attack before.