Tripawds Three Legged Dog & Cat Forum Archives

Ah! Great - thanks for the tweak! Much better.

Much credit goes to my sister who has a number of rescued pets and loves to recreationally cruise her local shelter's listings and sends Mom and me ones with interesting names. (She also hand picked my Mom’s rescue cat - a purrrrfect match for her!) She’s now on a mission to send me all the tripawds she finds, so some mornings I wake up to find a text with the latest one to post here. It’s a great team effort …and it prompted me to start looking at and sharing from the shelters in my area. My shelters seem to have fewer tripods than hers so I found this search as a way to broaden my net - and WOW did it ever! A few too many to list all at once here, really! …so I thought I’d share.

@jerry, I know, right?!? I was so pleased when I thought to do this - and it worked! And thanks again @mischief for the more effective approach!

I’ll absolutely pass your thanks to my sis!  She’d be out there searching and cruising regardless - she has such a kind heart, but the Tripawd cause has really lit a fire under her!

Also, perhaps at the risk of stating the obvious, you can use this trick on any shelter or rescue listings website, not just petfinder.com. I simply picked that one because it lists soooo many pets here in the US, and at this point it doesn’t yet have another intuitive way to filter for tripawds.

I’ll also say from experience looking at a number of listings at my and my sister’s local shelters, that “tripod” or “tripawd” isn’t always listed in an animal’s profile, so it’s always worth a skim through your local shelter’s offerings just to see if there are some three-leggers still lurking about that evaded a search. +1

@mischief - exactly, there will be a lot of great dogs the search misses, but at least it’s a start. And maybe those hidden ones are out there for others to get lured in like you were - to become hooked on tripawds.

Some day I will get my pointy eared dog... 

Funny - folks do usually have a clear preference, don’t they? I’m more of a floppy-eared fan myself - longer the better.

@jerry - Ah! Great - this really makes the search more effective to try each of these variations and see what they bring up. Nice list. I can only imagine how many profiles you must have looked through!

@mischief - so interesting, I hadn’t thought about pointy ears that way, but I can imagine that as a very primal response. I blame my love of long ears on an early childhood obsession with Snoopy.

And agreed on the variations - I tried them myself and it really made a difference.

Also, I tried the “site:” trick and I think the results without it (at least in Google search) are better. However using it in Duck Duck Go, the results were better with “site:”. Go fig. So it may come down to trying it in whatever browser you use and seeing which offers the most/best listings.

@jerry - it really is amazing how many there are! Aww, my pleasure.

And, I’ve been meaning to add one more phrase to use in searches to find them:

site:petfinder.com three legs

This seriously brings up a ton of them! And of course, feel free to use any rescue website for your in your search (not just petfinder). And if you’re having a hard time finding a tripawd in your area, may I suggest doing search in a different state or province and then taking a roadtrip?!!