One of the things not discussed too often is tripawd hygiene.  Well Radar had one of his least favorite rituals today.  If you have a male dog with a front leg amputation you may know what I'm talking about – especially if it is a long haired breed. 

Radar can't lift his leg any more to go potty and has developed a new half crouched posture to go.  The end result of his new "posture" well basically it's a mess.   So every 2 or 3 months I lay him down and trim out all of the fur inside his rear legs and on his lower belly.   It prevents messy sticky fur to wash and brush out daily which is usually not the most comfortable thing for him and a real pain for us too.  Radar is wonderfully patient with me as I don't use a razer and do this by hand.  I also take the opportunity to trim his pads and around the base of his tail. 

In the end this is sooo much easier on him then washing and combing out sticky hair every day, but, LOL, you can just see him sighing and rolling his eyes "just get it over with will ya" 

Lucky me!  Cemil stretches out like a horse so I don't have to deal with cleaning up his front leg.  He's even figured out how to poop-and-scrape successfully–that was a milestone!  He's funny when he does it.  He gets his front leg positioned just right, then does a quick scrape with each hind leg, looking pretty proud.