kody died after being nueter can stress during that kill a cat?

Should i have seen the signs that my cat was stress? I kno he was super scared told the doctor that and her response was they all are, but i watch as she geld him he curled in..his tail and whole lower body curled in..he couldnt even meow compare to other kitties there i saw at the s.p.ca..it was lik he was frozen...the night before i kept telling him just to come back homevto me, i had a weird feeling that he wasnt going to mak it..even in the morningvit felt like death was near..i just dont know how to cope..he was my baby mt boy my blessing..i feel so rob..now that hes gone

KODY

So very sorry for you and Kody,I lost my girl of 22 years a few years ago and have one now on the edge now......This is the bad part of loving pets.

Thank feralfriend , i believe your right its the hardest part loving an animal is letting them go.i wasnt ready for kody to go
But i felt it th night before surgery that it might b my last time seeing him, i was hoping he was coming home..my condolences to u also..

I'm so sorry. What a cute baby. 

Life isn't the same without a cat,I only made it a week after she died and had to get another cat(it didn't replace her but it did help my pain-22 years is a long time).I now have a savannah-manx-and a Bengal plus I care for 3 strays.1 stray lives on my porch in a house I built and he is not in good shape.All the cats in and outside the house still don't replace my girl I lost but you have to keep on and when your ready find a cat that needs your love and care.Once again Im so sorry for your loss.

Oh gosh I'm so sorry - neutering is the simplest operation in veterinary medicine.  So that being the case, did they give you an explanation, because being fearful doesn't explain why he would have passed from the operation. 

reba they never said,why. They said he was coming iyt of surgery good but then they gave him his shots walj away notice discoloration , proceeded with c.p.r but he passed quickly..i feel so guilty, i feel so sad i miss him dearly..i feel like he was stress from his body language i tried to tell the doctor that and shevjust said they all are..i felt confidan but scared because what i fel th night before that i was my last night with hin..even in the morning it was a weird feeling but i kept trying to reassure him everything was okay..i hope h didn think i was abandining him..i wish my heart isnt so broken...i will truly miss my kody

breebree, I'm so sorry to hear this. I really don't think stress can have been the reason you lost Kody. I've had lots of feral cats neutered and spayed, some of these had never been handled by humans before and were understandably terrified, but they all survived surgery.

It could have been a bad reaction to the anaesthetic or it could have been a heart problem. I think you need to talk to your vet and find out exactly what happened, they owe you an explanation.

Please don't blame yourself, you didn't do anything wrong.

I am sorry for your loss. I agree with Noracha. There was likely an underlining issues and being put under for surgery aggravated it  

Bree I think most people will tell you that they have feelings of dread any time they drop their kittens off to be spayed or neutered.   So your feelings before the surgery were normal and not some signal you should have listened to and didn't.   Please don't blame yourself, you did the right thing.  Kody knows he was loved while he was with you here and he still knows.  Again I'm very sorry for your loss. 

Very sorry to hear you lost your boy. Just so tragic and hard to understand.

My best guess would be, after they start to wake up from the anesthesia, occasionally a cat will do what we call crash. They stop breathing and need to be quickly resuscitated.

It only takes a minute of not noticing he stopped breathing for them to lose him.

They certainly owe you some sort of an explanation though, to be flippant like "these things happen" and disregard your loss and devastation is cruel and so unfair to you.

Makes me wonder if they know that someone wasn't watching him come out of his sleep. Ran to the bathroom, etc. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. 

Back when I was working the monthly feral clinic, we would spay/neuter about 100 cats in one day. There was usually at least one time each clinic we would hear someone yell "crash!" The signal that a cat has stopped breathing and was quickly rushed back into the surgery area for reviving.

There were several volunteers who's job was solely to watch their breathing until they were fully awake.

Otherwise I can't see how a cat would die from a simple neuter. VERY simple procedure. 

As for a heart condition, very likely if there was a bad enough defect/murmur, it would have been clearly heard before administering anesthesia.

In my opinion it's doubtful it would be the shots given.

You will likely never know exactly what happened, but just know there was no suffering involved, likely happened while he was still asleep or close to it at least.

Very sorry.

Thankyou for your response, the doctor mention thaShe gave him the shots turn away came back and notice his color change they tried c.p.r but said he went so fast..im so sad, im hurt how the doctor seemed like it was nothing , im angry cuz i couldnt help him or change fate..im mad that they didnt watch him closely..i wished i should of express my fears to the doctor before mayb that woyluld of made a difference..u r right may b ill never know, but it still hurts..i feel like they should of watch him closely..thankyou for explaining to me some things..

I'm very sorry for your loss Stress shouldn't be a reason to die, and every surgery has a risk. But you don't expect a cuty like him to die this suddenly. Stay strong, I hope you'll be able to put your anger aside and just remember him as the lovely pet that he was. He deserves no more <3

Breebree- I am so sorry about Kody. I a not a dr. but it sounds like Kody might have had an underlying heart condition. These are not always caught before surgery. I happens to people too.You did all you could please don't beat yourself up.

It's possible he had some kind of allergy to whatever they gave him and were unaware. It's hard to tell what cats are allergic to without doing a lot of tests that causes stress on them as it is.