Hello, I am new to your site although I have been lurking for awhile.  We are adopting a Tripawd named Bella from a rescue in AZ.  She is a yellow lab almost three years old.  She fell out of a jeep in Sept. and her owners never took her into the vet to address her injured leg.  For the next seven months she suffered as she tried to walk on it.  It got to the point in March that she started eating her own foot.  Her owners just tried to cover where she was eating so she would stop.  Finally they decided that they had to do something and did not want to fix her leg so they turned her into a rescue.  Our rescue (which I happen to volunteer with) got her on a Friday and had the leg amputated on Monday.  The vet said if the injury would have been addressed at the time it happened, she would not have lost her leg.  It was her front left. 

So it has been about eight weeks since amputation and she is a new dog.  The pictures of her from before and after are incredible. 

We were actually about to adopt another tripawd but it did not work out and Bella became available the next day.  I had already researched tripawds here and had spoken to my vet about care and prognosis and such and felt comfortable adopting one.  When I heard that Bella was available, we spoke to her foster and decided she might be a match for our family.  We met her with our dog Niko and loved her instantly.  She is a joyous, sweet girl.  We will get her in about nine days as we had a little trip planned and decided that we should wait until afterwards.

My husband and I have four kids between 5 and 11 and our yellow lab Niko and now Bella.  I am looking forward to being a part of the group and to sharing info and stories!  Thanks for having this community available for people like me as it made the decision to adopt so much easier as I learned so much here!

Jennine