Trying to work through this. Sparky hid all day yesterday. This morning I got him and put him in a cat bed near this desk. He has the UTI again and bad.I talked to the vets and took him in just before ten a.m. Dr, brothers examined him and Sparky's bladder was hard as hell and the size of an apple. This is his third UTI episode.
The diagnosis is UTI and severe. Prognosis is chronic. He is at a crossroads. There are three options:
1. Continue taking him to the hospital every couple months and have a catheter inserted, then medication. This option will wear out as it affects his ability to pee at all eventually and is probably going to result in renal failure.
2. Surgery to remove external urinary parts and redirect the urinary method directly via his urethra so he can evacuate ate will, much like a female mechanism.I had this done with a cat, Trotsky, in California in 1978 and he lived to a ripe old age. It is expensive but allows the cat to live without the pain and recurrent UTI problems.
3. The final solution. I do not want this option and will not do it. My conscience will not allow it. I won't have Sparky terminated.

He is at the vet. Doctor Mike has by now put him on a catheter. I asked them to call me with the estimate.

More when I know.