Jen, I'm so sorry to hear that Rutherford also has stones as well. These are the calcium oxalate stones and this is what they thought that Storm had but it still hasn't been proven yet. Hopefully you'll be able to find a surgeon to perform the surgery soon. Here's a link that tells you more about the calcium oxalate stones:

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/feli...tract_dis.html. You need to click on bladder stones to get the info and then feline oxalate stones.