sorry to hear that :-( they are like family, I have lost a couple pets in the past too. Feline Leukemia. Another thing: make them test for that, Don't let them give you that "indoor cat" shit. Test and Vaccinate. You live and learn with these creatures I guess.

At first he was just acting funny for a couple days about going pee. He would go allot, or at least I thought, and he also went in places hes not supposed to which is extremely rare. These are actually signs of the condition as it turns out, and a good factoid. That night he became extremely dis-comfortable, a total blockage had occurred, and I came home and found him basically shrieking in pain and fear so I flipped out and start calling Vets, they did a cathode which fixed the immediate problem but led to a week of urinalysis tests, toxicology exams, and several days the poor cat was on that tube being "flushed" or what ever. I was mortified.