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18 October 2009
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Good job!!
Pugs are known for their obstinance- actually it's one of the things I loved about Maggie. Obie is the most obedient pug I've known, but he is afraid of Tani and gets nervous when I make him sit by her, so he moves when I'm working with Tani who is deaf. She does pretty well with hand signals but you have to be on her good side (half blind now too), but once I get her to stay she interprets the 'look at the camera' hand wave as the 'come' command.
It's actually very entertaining... I should make a video.
Tri-pug Maggie survived a 4.5 year mast cell cancer battle only to be lost to oral melanoma.
1999 to 2010
Maggie's Story Amputation and Chemo
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15 December 2012
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Wow Luanne that's amazing! You will have to give me some tips. We try and get ourselves in the picture to send to relatives, then I have to figure out the auto shoot, run over and try and get everyone to look at the camera. Sometimes I throw a bone towards the camera. It's really pretty challenging, maybe I should hire a professional but where would the fun be in that?
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1 February 2013
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Karen-I'm holding you to that video!
Penny-WOW! I think your's takes a lot more work. Mine would run after the bone. We did have professional photos taken a couple years ago and it took 2 hours!
Spirit Shooter was a Miniature Australian Shepherd who was diagnosed with a MCT and had a LF amp 1/28/13 at 13-1/2 years old.
Shooter crossed the Bridge on 8/28/13, his 7 month ampuversary and two weeks from his 14th birthday.
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12 February 2013
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This was Brendol and Aissa for Christmas 2001.
Adelaide is a young tripawd Husky, from an injury. Her amp was on 10/1/12. She has 4 sisters, Aissa (a senior border collie/chow), Maggie May (a puppy Great Pyrenees), Mathilde and Morrigan and 1 baby brother, Bagheera. We are all watched over by our angel Brendol, who was dx with OSA 1/30/13, amp on 2/6/13, and left us on 8/20/13.
You can read their stories at http://adelaide.tripawds.com and http://brendol.tripawds.com
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1 February 2013
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Karma - such happy dogs!
Spirit Shooter was a Miniature Australian Shepherd who was diagnosed with a MCT and had a LF amp 1/28/13 at 13-1/2 years old.
Shooter crossed the Bridge on 8/28/13, his 7 month ampuversary and two weeks from his 14th birthday.
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22 February 2013
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LUANNE! NO WAAAAAAY! You had to glue their butts to the floor for that photo!
They are soooooo cute!! And I'm sure you noticed...they'r all holding their heads up lookg at the camera.....except SHOOTER!! Shooter looks like he's trying to "shrink himself" and act like he's not gettng his photo taken! LOVE THIS PHOTO!!
And guess whose banner was at the topof the page when I just now clicked to this thread and saw yor photo?? YEP! SHOOTER!
Love this "Unverse doing her magic" stuff!! I LOOOOOOVE SHOOTER!!
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
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22 February 2013
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AWWWWWWW......Sweet Smilin' Assie and the " best bone structure face" BRENDOL!! I guess she has such a striking face from buildng cheek muscles blowing all those bubbles! Got two mightyyoung lookng mugs there! Not a gray hair in sight!!
Very, very sweet hoto.....two best buddies givng yo a special "forever treasure" to remi d you of the best of times.
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
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23 September 2013
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Chance is a 10ish Shetland Sheepdog Mix who was rescued from the shelter in January of 2013 and diagnosed with Osteosarcoma in September of 2013. He had a front left amputation and 6 rounds of carboplatin. He had a great 11 months and was diagnosed with lung mets on 8/23/14. He was released to the bridge on 8/28/14.
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15 December 2012
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Karma,
Brendol and Aissa are darling and they probably love the fireplace like my girls do (did).
And Chance is so cute with his little freckles. The stocking does look delish.
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CHANCE! SWEET, SWEET CHANCE! The boy has his OWN persnalized stocking! I KNOW yoj've been a very, very god boy this year and Santa is gong to fill that to the brim! And you look sooooo good! I can really, realy see the difference in howyou look now versus two weeks after surgeey.
Thanks for the GREAT picture Chance! Now go eat up that stockng! Trust me, they'll get you another one.
Hugs!
Sally and Happy Hannah
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
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12 February 2013
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Here is Christmas 2013...
Happy Holidays to all my Tripawds friends!
Karma, Adelaide, Aissa, sweet angel Brendol, Mathilde and Morrigan
Adelaide is a young tripawd Husky, from an injury. Her amp was on 10/1/12. She has 4 sisters, Aissa (a senior border collie/chow), Maggie May (a puppy Great Pyrenees), Mathilde and Morrigan and 1 baby brother, Bagheera. We are all watched over by our angel Brendol, who was dx with OSA 1/30/13, amp on 2/6/13, and left us on 8/20/13.
You can read their stories at http://adelaide.tripawds.com and http://brendol.tripawds.com
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22 February 2013
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GREAT CHRISTMAS CARD!!! They look like professio ally trained actor dogs used to market Santa!
Don't know how you got them to behave so nicely! As you said in your vlog, they are NOT guard dogs! Yep! Pretty clear! Not bothered by a funnylookng man and a room full of strangers at all!
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
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This old News Blog post has one of our favorite photos from the Tripawds Spirit of Christmas Past...
Dog Bless Us Everyone!
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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13 March 2013
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That has to be the best Tripawd Christmas picture EVER!!
Murphy is a five year old Lab/Chessie cross. He was hit by a car on 10/29/12 and became a Tripawd on 11/24/12. On 2/5/13, he had a total hip replacement on his remaining back leg. He has absolutely no idea that he has only three legs!
UPDATE: Murphy lived his life to the fullest, right up until an aggressive bone lesion took him across the Rainbow Bridge on April 9, 2015 and he gained his membership in the April Angels. Run free, my love. You deserve it!
