She and her talented twin daughters have generously offered to donate one of their hand-painted, beautiful watercolor pet portraits to the highest contributor to Tripawds. You can see more of their artwork on their website, MeiliDesigns.net.

Meilimom and her girls are pawrents to Tripawd Gracie (left) who was born with a deformed front leg. They made this generous offer because . . .

“The Tripawds site has helped us a lot, and my 14 year old twin daughters would like to donate a watercolor portrait to benefit the Tripawds site.”

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From now until Midnight on September 30th, you can try for a custom, 8″ x 10″ portrait of your Tripawd created from a photo that you supply. There is no minimum gift and you can give as often as you like. Please note that by playing, youare giving non-refundable gifts to Tripwds made at the time of your entry, via the PayPal Donations screen. By contributing, you are directly helping to support the Tripawds community.

The pawrent who contributes  the largest amount, or has the highest amount of combined contributions at the end of the contest wins the portrait.

If you contribute the most by the deadline of Midnight, Thursday, September 30, you win!

Contest Details

If you place multiple gifts, please use the same email address / PayPal account when you do. (All transactions will be completed at PayPal.com where you can enter your desired bid amount.)

If you wish to place a gift on behalf of someone else, please include their Tripawds username in the comments field before completing the PayPal transaction.

Contest deadline is Midnight, September 30. In the event of a tie for the highest bid, the contest shall be extended by 24 hour periods until a winner is determined.

Tripawds administrators shall track all gifts received and update this Discussion Forum Topic regularly with the current highest gift . In the interest of confidentiality only the current highest gift amount will be announced. Cumulative gift totals will be calculated for anyone giving multiple gifts.

Get Bidding!

Thank you Kim, Kaitlyn Tao Mei and Jessica Tao Li, we are so honored by your generosity and appreciate this wonderful offer!

For those of you who take road trips with your Tripawd, what advice do you have for new Tripawd pawrents?

Share your top 3 Tripawd travel tips, and you can win a complimentary goody bag from the nice people at Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul!

For example, our top 3 travel tips are:

1. Wear a Ruff Wear Harness for easy lifting in and out of vehicles, and preparing you for unexpected surfaces.
2. Carry plenty of water no matter where you’re headed. These portable travel bowls make watering time easy.
3. Remember to stop and smell the roses!

This contest is easy:

• Write your top 3 Tripawds Travel Tips below or in the related discussion forum topic, no later than Sunday, September 5th.
• Tripawds Spokesdawg Wyatt Ray will pick a winner at 6pm Labor Day, Monday, September 6th.
• Sorry, only U.S. residents can participate.

Please note that Tripawds doesn’t receive compensation for these contests. The Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul people just want to get the word out about their highly-rated prepared kibble, and we think freebies from makers of quality dog products are cool! Check out their Facebook Page to see what others have to say about it.

Perhaps you’ve wondered if their foods are as good as they sound. Well, rest assured, both Whole Dog Journal and our friend Mike Sagman, AKA, the Dog Food Advisor, think that the Chicken Soup For The Dog Lover’s Soul foods are good for Tripawds who can eat a grain-based diet.

Dog Food Advisor recently reviewed the Chicken Soup series and gave it four out of five stars. He said “Based upon the ingredients alone, this Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul product appears to be an excellent kibble.”

Enter to win a $20 Petco Gift Card

Dog Food Advisor’s review and Whole Dog Journal’s endorsement gave us the confidence we wanted in the Chicken Soup dog food, which is why we are holding a contest sponsored by the Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul people.

Chicken Soup For The Pet Lover’s Soul is giving us a $20 Petco gift certificate to award to one lucky Tripawd pawrent.

Entering the contest is easy. Tell us in 100 words or less:

“What is the funniest reaction you’ve heard from a kid who has just seen your Tripawd?”

To qualify, just share your story in the comments section below, by midnight on Tuesday, May 11th. All entries will be posted in the Tripawds News Blog, and a winner will be drawn at random by Tripawds Spokesdog Wyatt Ray Dawg.

Stay tuned for the winning entry!

This time he is hoppy to announce the second winner of our Tripawds Amputation and Cancer Survey drawing for $10 off anything in the Tripawds Gift Shop.

And the winner is . . . Emily and Dixie!

We want send a big thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out this survey. Remember, it’s ongoing, so even though the contest is now over, pawrents can submit it any time.

If you haven’t done so, be sure to take the survey today!

The survey is for all Tripawds, with or without cancer.

The information we compile from your responses will be analyzed and presented for use here at Tripawds. The first round of responses might take us a while to process, but we promise to get it out there as soon as we can.

Stay tuned for interesting and exciting facts, statistics, advice and anecdotes from Tripawd Pawrents.

We’ve received 32 surveys so far. The comments have been enlightening, and will serve future Tripawd pawrents well. Some of the heartfelt details pawrents shared included things like:

• “I went through “anticipatory grief” where I felt like he was dead even though he was perfectly fine. I think I cried every day for about a month . . . I no longer worry and know he will let me know when he is ready to move forward.”
• “he did really well, so i did well, for me it was hell making the decision to amputate because it felt like i was meeting my needs not his”
• “Day to do I didn’t worry but as soon as anything seemed ‘different’ I worried. A lot.”

Remember that by taking the time to answer the survey questions, you will be helping many others hopping along the same Tripawds path. Plus, you get to be entered into a drawing for another $10 Café Cash gift certificate. One lucky winner can use it toward anything from the new Tripawds Gift Shop.

To be entered in the drawing, just fill out Part II of the survey (and Part I if you haven’t already done so), no later than Monday, March 22 at 12 midnight, Pacific Time.

We’ll continue taking responses indefinitely. Stay tuned for our findings from your answers, here in Jerry’s blog and his three legged dog discussion forums. Thanks for taking time out to help us with this impawtant research.

Please be sure to complete the Tripawds Treatment Survey Part 1. You will be redirected here to part 2 upon submission.

Once again, Tripawds is holding an incentive drawing for another $10 Café Cash gift certificate. One lucky winner can use it toward anything from the new Tripawds Gift Shop.

To be entered in the drawing, just fill out Part II of the survey below (and Part I if you haven’t already done so), no later than Monday, March 22 at 12 midnight, Pacific Time.

We’ll continue taking responses indefinitely. Stay tuned for our findings from your answers, here in Jerry’s blog and his three legged dog discussion forums. Thanks for taking time out to help us with this impawtant research.

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Please take a moment to complete Part One below. Submit it by midnight on Sunday, February 21st and you’ll be entered into a drawing where one lucky pawrent will get a $10 Café Cash gift certificate valid for any Café Press items including Tripawds apparel and gifts!

Upon submission of the Tripawds Treatment Survey below will be redirected to Part 2, which covers cancer-specific concerns. Stay tuned for regular updates with interesting findings from this ongoing survey, here in Jerry’s blog and his three legged dog discussion forums.

NOTE: Please be sure to take Part II of this very impawtant survey too! Tripawds Treatment Survey, Part II

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Be sure to submit a photo of your cancer hero pup – passed or living – along with a paragraph or two about their battle with cancer. The 2Dogs team will be accepting calendar submissions via email with one (1) photograph either in jpeg or gif format and a minimum file size of 300kB to calendar@2dogs2000miles.org.

Be sure to include your pup’s cancer story, but please try and limit it to 1000 characters or less. If you have any questions you can contact erich@2dogs2000miles.org.

A portion of the proceeds from the 2009 Canine Cancer Calendar went to the Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) in support of their Canine Cancer Campaign. This year, the Tufts Veterinary School Harrington Oncology Program and the Texas A&M Veterinary School’s Imaging and Cancer Treatment Center will be recognized for their advancement of companion pet cancer research.

Submit your story and photo today! Then stay tuned for news about the Calendar voting. And don’t miss that last post about the first Canine Cancer Caucus in Washington, DC on September 18.

Hi everybody,

Here is a 2 minute promotional video featuring many of your wonderful tripods! I’m sorry if your “incredible” dog didn’t make the video. We just used the most suitable photos and videos.

What if we could get over one million people to view this video and see your incredible dogs? I would be honored if you could help me. Here are some ideas… Basically it’s just simple word of mouth but you are doing it online?

• Email the link to your friends and ask them pass it on.
• Tweet the link to all friends on twitter.
• Send the link to your friends on face-book, linked in or MySpace.
• If you have a website or a blog… feel free to post the video on your site.
• Send the link to any friends you have in the Animal or Film Media.

If you have any questions or complaints then please contact me. Also if there is any way in which I can help you then please let me know.

Much thanks

Geoff Talbot

You may have seen his casting calls on Twitter or Facebook lately, because Talbot is taking his casting call worldwide, and giving the general public a chance to make their Tripawd a star.

Talbot is specifically looking for a rear-leg amputee with “big cinematic doggie eyes.”  This romantic comedy is a 24- hour Bohemian love story between a Czech street girl called Lucky and a homeless New Zealand guy named Rich, who has a three legged dog.

The future Scrap and his or her human must be fit and cleared to travel internationally to Prauge for about 20 days of on-location filming in February 2010. A veterinarian will be on the set at all times to ensure proper care of the future canine star.

The “Find Scrap” contest is currently running on Talbot’s blog. Since May, over 80 Tripawds have applied from countries as far away as New Zealand, America, Wales, England, Greece, Canada and Australia. Over 14,000 votes have already been cast. Tripawds can apply by sending a JPEG photo to help.find.scrap@gmail.com.

Talbot is encouraging more dogs to apply. “We want every three-legged dog on the face of this planet to hear about this competition, and at least have the opportunity to be our star. Each dog as an incredible story of courage that deserves to be told.”

In late June, the contestant field will be narrowed down to 12 runners-up. A winner will be then chosen from the results of an exciting interactive online TV show called “World 3-legged Dog Idol.” Stay tuned for more information here.

Photos and videos of the Tripawd applicants can be viewed on the filmmakers blog, www.geofftalbot.wordpress.com