Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat

Diane and Magic,

Good luck with the kitty search.  Adding a kitty to the family sure helped Wolfie, Jake's brother, when Jake passed.  My cat doesn't really act like our remaining dogs exist but she hated Emily!  Even with three legs and the beginning of spinal mets Emily would chase Lexi out of the room.  Hopefully Magic will be friendlier.

Debra

Magic always liked our kitties...and when we would walk (back in the quadpawd days), all the kitties in our area apparently have death wishes because completely strange cats would come up to Magic...the first time it happened I almost dropped my jaw on the sidewalk...big orange cat ran across the street, came right up to him and touched noses...we never saw that one again (maybe bad decision making?), another we used to see regularly then he disappeared about a year ago and Magic would stop every time we took that route (we had various routes we hit maybe two to three times a week on each one) at the house where the kitty had been and wait and look...there was another two kitties who came up and threw themselves on the ground, belly up and wiggled right under his big head and large teeth...

I am assuming with the more laid back energy level, this should go well...oh boy I hope it isn't one of those bad assumptions!!!!  and OJ used to lay with Magic so I am hoping all the kitty exposure he has had (well none for the last couple of weeks...I won't share my stuffed kitty with him because I fear it would become unstuffed) this will be just an extension of that!!  Although Sophie's kitty brother (also named Wolfie) pretty much runs the dogs!!

if being five years younger meant I was no longer retired...I'LL TAKE THE AGE!  I can't imagine how all of you who are working MANAGE with your sick furkids.  It seems like my time for the last at least three months (up to two weeks ago) was nothing but shots, pills, sub Q fluids, more pills, vet visits, pills, shots, and on and on for both Magic and OJ....I don't know where I would have been able to fit in my job frankly....and of course OJ has been on all kind of med stuff for the last four years but when Magic got sick it became an all day thing.

Boxes...GOOD IDEA...oh oh, I'll need a bigger storage place won't I...

anyone want a miniature house?  If I moved that out I would have quite a large area in a bedroom...big miniature house...lots of miniature STUFF...all in BOXES!!!!

Being tall was a definite turn-off for guys. In my memory I absolutely towered over all them so I developed this even more unattractive hunch to appear shorter. Didn't help. On top of being tall and gangly and pimply and socially awkward and hunchbacked and having to wear clothes my mom sewed for me, I would have been a shoo-in for winning the Wallflower Pageant.

Man, I'm relieved now to have a name for that safe AWAY place. Wherever it is it contains quite a lot of treasures. In the meantime, when I can't find whatever I'm looking for after a while I just go out and buy new stuff. Naturally, I put those items in the away place too. It never ends.

cometdog said:

(Yeah, I'm a weather freaktoid, too!)   

Gee. Nice to know we share that too. 🙂 Long armed, shrinking, hunching weather freaktoids.

Sweet.

djbockman said:

Ladies, tell your female dogs Gus has the best hop they will ever see!!!!!

Message about Gus duly noted and passed on to Catie. She's never showed romantic inclinations before - I think that's because her bro Riley kept trying to hump her (and yes, they're both neutered/spayed) - but if Gus is as good a hopper as you say he is, you never know.

 I'm thinking maybe Gus and Riley believe all that licking has restorative powers.

LOL! I don't even have a comeback for that because it's probably true.