Hello! I'm going to be picking up my newest member of the family on Friday from the airport. Tango is a 10month old Long haired Chihuahua that is a front left amputee. His first owners failed to take good care of a dressing he had on his leg and it became badly infected. When they brought him to the vet to be put down (AT 6 MONTHS), his foster mom intervened. After his amputation, Tango has thrived but he wasn't getting any offers for a forever home. Low and behold, I saw him on another dog forum I frequent and he will be in my arms soon!

I have two other furred pets, a 3 year old BC/Retriever mix and a 2 year old Domestic Medium Hair cat. I'm hoping my dog will learn how to interact with Tango without knocking him over!

He's adorable! How sweet you are for taking him in.

Keep us posted on how he does – especially with your other "monkeydogs" (that's what we call the four-leggers who act up to try to steal attention away from the oh-so-special Tripawd in the family!).
All the best to you and Tango and your pack,
Jackie, Angel Abby's mom

Hi Tango! You are the cutest!

Welcome to your furever home! :)

Don't worry, you will soon be the boss of the house and the other fur babies

catch on real fast.

Take it from me, 10 lb Wyatt, owner of all things soft and feeder lady of the house.

Tango…how cute is that! Welcome new 3 legged pal! Glad you found your furever home!

Hello to Tango and his new family, and welcome to the tripawd community.  I have one of the smallest (but obviously not THE smallest) tripawds here.  Sparky is a five year old rat terrier, also a front left amputee.  He, too, lost his leg due to the treatment of his previous owner.  He walks, runs, pulls on his leash, and jumps on the furniture.  I'm sure your Tango will be just as agile.  My only suggestion is that you not baby him.  Sparky pulls on his lead because I let him get away with it.  I wish I hadn't.  If you expect Tango to do everything a quadpawd can do, he will. 

Best of wishes!

Becky

Welcome Tiny Tango!

Introducing a new family member is always a bit of a tenuous proposition, but I think it will go okay for you… Just supervise all their interactions very heavily until everyone adjusts and figures out their place in things.

I found it really interesting how other dogs seemed to sense there was something different about Rio. I was really nervous bringing her home post-surgery to her sisters who are very large and bull-in-a-china-closet-ish. But they seemed to know that she needed to be treated differently. Whenever we took her where there were other dogs, even dogs that had never met her before, even they treated her very gently. Even the ones who wanted to play with her, if she didn't want to, nopawdy really pressed the issue. Hopefully this will be the case with Tango, too.

Rio's momma, Micki

I remember reading somewhere that dogs are one of the only animals that knows to treat smaller/injured dogs differently instead of challenging them and trying to show dominance. Izzy is good with my cat so I think she'll be ok with Tango. Just a little apprehensive like most people adding a new dog to their pack! I'll have to make a conscious effort not to baby him since he will be the smallest dog I've ever owned, even excluding his tripawd awesomeness! He's living with two dogs now that are 55 and 60-ish lbs and seems to take care of himself just fine so I just need to let them figure it out I guess.

Thanks for the warm welcome!