Thanks for your responses!  I'm glad I found this site.

It's been a little over 24 hours since we brought her home from the hospital and she hasn't eaten anything or peed.  She did drink a good bit of water this morning.  She did eat and peed yesterday morning at the clinic before we got her.  Before surgery with the broken leg and meds, she was only peeing once a day. (she weighs 10 pounds).

She is grumpy today.  Snapping at us. Resting well though.  Had a little bit of a restless night.  Just kept moving and shifting getting used to wearing the cone at night.  She is wearing the cone today.  Has only tried to get to her stitches a couple times.  Most the time I am right next to her, in fact all the time.  But I do keep the cone on her more today since she doesn't mind it.  Plus if I walk out into the kitched to get a drink, I don't want her to be able to get to her stitches.  Incision and swelling look a bit better.  Taking pictures every day of it for a medical diary.

When we take her out to pee, she just holds her tail down.  I'm hoping she will pee later today.  We put a towel underneath her chest and walk her a few steps.  You can see that she is using her hip muscle where the leg was removed.  But she doesn't want to use that other rear leg yet.  Just wants to try to sit.  The Orthopedic Surgeon said to cut her Baytril and Carprofen in half and give twice a day instead of once since she is so small and it is effecting her bowel movements.  Even with a laxative 3 times a day she was only pooping once a week.  Now that she has a pain patch in addition to the two medications, who knows when she'll poop.  She goes Wed. to get her pain patch replaced.  Then in 8 days from today, her stitches get removed.

I'm going to order the Cosequin, Welactin, and a pair of those traction socks for her soon.  We have hardwood floors in our living room as well as hardwood stairs.  Although she won't be doing stairs ever again.  It's kinda strange, she was already afraid of stairs.  She used them, but a lot of the time she would lie at the bottom of the steps until you brought her up.  Her accident happened at a friend's house though.  Somehow she got caught and twisted her leg at the bottom of their deck steps/concrete.  We don't know the exact cause.  I saw her go down the steps, turned to talk to someone, looked back at her and she was in the grass looking at her leg.  Then got up and help her leg up.  Broke it in 3 places.  She had surgery on the same leg.  Her hip when she was a puppy.  We adopted her at age 2.  Don't know what exactly happened – whether it was from trauma or in her genes.  We always wondered what happened to her. When we saw the x-ray, you can actually see a missing piece around her hip joint.  Ortho said it won't effect her at all.  She was always more flexible in that leg.  Matter of fact we nicknamed her "kickstand" because she would always sit and have that leg out to the side.  Now I guess we can nickname her "tripod". Main concern in the future is to keep her weight down, Ortho said.  We had been trying harder this past year to get her weight down – about a pound is what vet said she could lose, but not much.  She's lost 2 since her leg breakage.  Now we need to keep it down.  Of course, I'll let her eat as much as she wants during this recovery time period. 

So sorry that Pippin lost her leg to an infection! This is a great website for everything-you-need-to-know about caring for your new tripawd. Since she is small enough, she can be carried up/down stairs. For my 65lb Chloe, pretty much out of the question… but since she is bigger, stairs aren't as daunting anyway.  Hope Pippin makes her first nice poop for you! Something we tripawd parents tend to overly celebrate! (since the meds make them constipated and because they don't eat as much…)

-Chloe's mom

Thanks for everyone's responses!

@Karen – thank you so much for the information!  I will look into Musher's Secret.  I trim her pad hair every month because of our hard wood floors anyway.  She does have dry pads, so I am concerned about keeping them moist.  I use something called Bow Wow Butter Balm now – shea butter.

Pippin didn't like long flights of stairs before.  We think it was because of her hip surgery when she was a puppy.  Not sure exactly why.  She never jumped up on furniture either.  She would hop on two legs and "ask" to be picked up. She does jump on the bed, but only because I have a wide stool that she jumps onto first as a step.  She would go down stairs and jump off the couch with no problem.  We are going to build a ramp over our back steps that go into the yard.  We were going to do that even before this accident happened because  – 1.  Pippin would hesitate coming in the house going up the stairs 2. We have another Papillon that likes to go really, really, fast down the steps to chase a squirrel; and, 3. We have a shepherd/lab mix that jumps from the first step down onto the concrete EVERY DAY when she goes out thinking there is a squirrel to chase.  We don't need anymore broken legs in this family!

I do realize, however, that Pippin will need to do stairs and that she will need to practice.  But, not our steps inside the house because they are too small and slippery hardwood.  We have a 100 yr. old house that doesn't have modern sized steps so they are scary to begin with. Our front steps though she can practice on.

Yes, those are the sock I am going to get for her.  They have them in XXS which is for dogs less than 12#, which she is.