She's doing great! I think she's as good or better on 3 legs. Thanks for eveyone's support and great advice through all of this. She gets her stitches out Friday. However, I can't see them, so I wonder how they take them out???

Here's a little video/photo montage I put together from this weekend. As you can see, she isn't missing that leg at all!

Thanks. The ony thing holding her back is me and that leash! 

Today is day #12. So I am very happy with her progress. I'm sure the fact that she isn't having to deal with cancer or anything else, just the leg, makes her recovery easier.

Kelly, I think your videos prove what I suspected: Maddie hurt before the surgery. You took away the pain. The fact that she's getting around so well indicates to me that she hurt like hell. Now she's free to be who she was underneath the pain. I think she's a very grateful dog.

Shari

Maddie Mae you are AMAZING!!! I think you must've been a three legged dawg in a previous life. It doesn't slow you down one iota. Keep up the great work!!

Laura and Angel Tai

That IS a pesky Monkey dog! Did you see the way she tried to run out in front of Maddie to trip her? But Maddie easily avoided the scheming Monkeybutt Peanut.

She is a rescue and she had been hit by a car and owners never took her to the Vet, 8 months later she is raising a litter of puppies in a ditch culvert just outside her owners property. That's when a neighbor found her and took her in. When the puppies were weened she contacted a Cattle Dog rescue here in Texas and I took her in to foster. Of course, I'm NOT letting her go! lol

The injury was too severe and old that the Vet's recommendation was to remove the leg. So once she finished  heartworm treatment and got a clean bill of health we did the surgery. So she has had practice not using that leg much. Which has most definitely helped in her recovery. She doesn't even miss that leg, or the pain of it.

 She is really the best dog. You'd never know she had a rough start. She is very loving and trusting. 

Thanks Spirit Gus and Dan :-)

Go Go Maddie Mae! We all knew you would be flyin' after you got rid of that useless leg! As one who lives with a bionic tripawd girldawg I can see that you could give her a run for her money any day (shhhhh, don't tell her I said that, she'll whup my @#$).

I sure hope I can meet you someday! I loooove the girldawgz!

xoxox,

Travis Ray

You go girl!!! whoot whoot!

 But we never doubted  she would!