Hello, as many of you have, i just found out my dog has bone cancer.  worst. thing. ever. it's been just me and my girl Harley since she was born 6.5 years ago.  no idea what im going to do when she's gone but for now i find working on the issues at hand and not focusing to far down the line helping.  after researching and speaking to vets i've concluded that limb sparing is just too dangerous and a prosthetic would be not really viable either.  which leaves us with amputation.  unless of course we do a CT scan and find the cancer in one of her other legs then were just stuck with pallative care.  So baring that outcome amputation is what we're facing.  I'll be the first to agree that small - mid size dogs do great and even with dogs as big as mine (116 pounds of muscle with a huge mastiff chest) doing a rear leg amp. i don't think i would be overly concerned.  Problem is it's her left front leg.  The 2 or so days before diagnosed that she was unable to put little to no weight on it was just horrifying.  My regular vet and staff are the only ones who will tel me when i ask them how they think she'd do that she is no a good candidate.  the oncologist only says that amputation is the way to go so that we get rid of as much cancer as we can but won't comment on if she really thinks it's a good idea for MY dog.  Deep down i know there will be things she can still do, hanging out in the shade at the farm, visiting her pigs, swimming in the pond etc.. anyways im hoping someone on here can give me some kind of idea of what kind of challenges to come we are facing for a large tripod with one front leg. thanks for listening. -K