Cat can barely move anymore. Please help me find out what is happening
This is my family cat Tux. I wish you could add more than one video but he is 4 years old and fixed. One day we noticed he couldn’t jump, he loves being in his cat tower but was climbing up it and not jumping like he usually does. It went on for a few days and my family brought him the a vet where they told us he just pulled a muscle and sent us home.
Later that same night his back leg stopped working and we realized he was losing the ability to walk. I tried feeding him and he would barely eat. For days he would just lay there and we’d have to wipe him down and lay out pee pads because he wasn’t moving to pee. The ER vet took all we had saved up for him and they referred us to a neurologist an hour away that we can’t afford since our insurance doesn’t cover that.
The vet gave us steroids but they don’t seem to be helping and my parents are talking about having vet come over tomorrow to put him to sleep but I don’t know what happened to him. I hate seeing him like this and I don’t know what to do. He’s only four and has never had any health issues, he hasn’t gotten into anything bad either. We have another cat but we sent her away because we don’t know if what Tux has in contagious and he misses her and just cries out all night. It’s so hard to watch and the medicine isn’t helping. His X-ray and bloodwork is all normal too.