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Shhhh! Don't tell my fur faces about all those cool mazes. Theirs are not near as nice. They share my path to the woodshed and a path I made around the house. The drive is clear also, but they would LOVE this! Lori, Ty & Gang
TY GUY, Best Black Lab ever! Diagnosed  and had amp in January, 2014. Kicked MRSA's butt. Earned his angel wings on April 16, 2014. Run Free my boy and don't forget a shoe. Ty is a proud member of the " April Angels". Ty sent us Daryl, a Tripawd rescue in Sept. of 2016. Daryl is 5 +or -. We are also Pawrents to Chandler, a Border Collie mix who is 15 and 1/2, Lucy, a Corgi who is 7, 2 minis, 2 horses, and a feisty cat named Zoe. Zoe had a non skeletal Osteosarcoma removed in July 2015. No Chemo, she was at least 16. She is going strong although she is now completely blind. She is now close to 20 and her hobbies are eating and sleeping in front of her personal heater.Â
I love these videos. We make paths for ours too.  They are so adorable. I love watching mine play.
xxoxox
Michelle & Angel Sassy
Sassy is a proud member of the Winter Warriors. Live long, & strong Winter Warriors.
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07/26/2006 - Sassy earned her wings 08/20/2013
05/04/2006 -Â Bosch, Sassy's pal, earned his wings 03/29/19Â fought cancer for 4 months.
"You aren't doing it TO her, you are doing it FOR her. Give her a chance at life."
I am having a ton of difficulty editing this post, and writing on the post so I guess I will do it here......
My girls had a ton of fun the last few days in our snow, and Sally said she would love to she some pics and videos, so I finally got some posted with John's help. I also posted pics below of my beloved angels Polly and Maggie from a huge double snowstorm back in 2010, that was so much fun too.... The other pic is of my new crew, Pearl and Zuzu. I will always miss my Polly and Maggie, and Duchess before them, but I guess life goes on, and with new pups..... 
Love to all,Â
Bonnie, Angel Polly, Pearl, and Zuzu
Thanks Lori and Michelle, I am betting all your pups have just as much fun in any kinds of paths in the snow, especially if they are like Zuzu and creates many of her own !!
I am addicted to taking videos now, because I never was able to take many of Polly and Maggie, and I have a lot of regrets...
OH BONNIE, BONNIE, BONNIE!!!! This jas to be one of THE best snow videos EVER!!! And this is THE finest, THE most unique, THE most fun snow playground EVER!!
OMD! Zuzu and Pearl are the envy of every dog in the Universe! The love and devotion you and John have for your dogs, ALL of your dogs, is just pure magic!! The effort it took to do make this fun playground for them boggles my mind. And your reward is seeing two dogs TRULY, TRULY, TRULY, living life to the fullest!
I love how they interact with each other...waiting to see who blinks first....soooo.adorable!!
These videos need ro be our "go to" videos when we all need a smile, when we all need ro remember to Be More Dog , to live in the moment! What was a troublesome blozzard for humans, was something dogs saw as delightful and enchanting!
Having had the privilege of meeting Pearl, a very well behaved Pearl, it so much fun to see her break wild a d play with Zuzu with child like abandon!
And then we have "fragile" Zuzu. Yeah, right! To think that it was a year ago you brought Zuzu the puppy into your heart and home knowing she had "heart issues". I remember at first how tentative you were and watching over her every move. And then you stepped into your Be More Dog clothes of empowerment and let Zuzu be Zuzu and get on with playing full out!
To have such a compassionate heart, to be so selfless to bring a dog into your life knowing there are "health issues" makes you, in my opinion, a SAINT!! But we've seen that kind of love from you before with Polly, and Maggie before her, and Duchess before her. Need not have tegrets about not having enough videos of them. That kind of love lives in your heart forever. You don't need to "see" that kind of love, because you "feel" it forever.
Thank you Bonnie!!
And thank you for sharing the fun and joy you were having with these two! It really was sooooo much f
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
Well...so much fo "copying" everything in full before I got kicked off.
I'll just add
Love!
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
Who has more fun than furfaces? Â No one that's who. Â Love these you just have to smile while watching. Â Thank you for sharing with us!
Linda, Ollie, Riley & Spirit Mighty Max
I am so glad you posted these!!! I saw them on "the facebook" and they seriously made me laugh and smile!!!! What lucky dogs!!! So much fun!Â
XOOX
alison with spirit shelby in her heart (and little jasper too)Â
Shelby Lynne; Jack Russell/Shiba Inu mix. Proud member of the April Angels of 2014.
October 15, 2000 to April 8, 2014
Our story: Broke rear leg in June 2013 - non-conclusive results for cancer so leg was plated and pinned. Enlarged spleen in September 2013 and had it removed and was diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma and started chemotherapy. Became a Tripawd January 8th, 2014 and definitive Hemangiosarcoma diagnosis. Three major surgeries in 7 months and Shelby took them all like a champ only to lose her battle to cancer in her brain. We had 8 amazing extra months together and no regrets. #shelbystrong #loveofmylife
Oh thank you for sharing here! I didn't see them on the Facebooger and they made my morning! Now you have to tell us who are ignorant about living with snow, how the heck did you make those mazes? I'm guessing a snowblower?
I love how happy the dogs look, they're probably thinking they landed on another planet! That seriously looks like Colorado snow, crazy!
P.S. What kind of trouble are you having when editing your post? Do you mean after you already posted? If so, you can only edit it until someone has replied. Once someone has replied you can't re-edit. Make sense?
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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bcullom said
Thanks Lori and Michelle, I am betting all your pups have just as much fun in any kinds of paths in the snow, especially if they are like Zuzu and creates many of her own !!I am addicted to taking videos now, because I never was able to take many of Polly and Maggie, and I have a lot of regrets...
TRUTH! I was addicted to taking photos of Shelby only after I got a smart phone and Facebook. But for the early part of her life... not many photos and hardly any videos. I cherish each of those videos I got of Shelby like they are gold!Â
So as a result... poor Jasper lily has a camera in front her of her face daily! I think in the short year and half we've been together, she's taken MORE photos than Shelby ever did! 
Shelby Lynne; Jack Russell/Shiba Inu mix. Proud member of the April Angels of 2014.
October 15, 2000 to April 8, 2014
Our story: Broke rear leg in June 2013 - non-conclusive results for cancer so leg was plated and pinned. Enlarged spleen in September 2013 and had it removed and was diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma and started chemotherapy. Became a Tripawd January 8th, 2014 and definitive Hemangiosarcoma diagnosis. Three major surgeries in 7 months and Shelby took them all like a champ only to lose her battle to cancer in her brain. We had 8 amazing extra months together and no regrets. #shelbystrong #loveofmylife
So glad you all liked these, watching our fur-kids enjoying life the way they do in any kind of weather brings a new level of joy within us too, I believe..... And the seemingly boundless energy of them refreshes my soul 😊
Sally, Pearl is definitely my delicate princess, she very much has a personality like my precious angel Polly, and Zuzu is a maniac, lol, and yet Zuzu is one of the most lovable pups I have ever had..... I have come to a crossroads regarding Zuzu's heart valve defect, I have decided to let her live her life to the fullest, but I know when to say when, she plays with true reckless abandon, and I said to John that she really seems to know her life may possibly be much shorter than a normal dog so she is grabbing all the gusto she can and loves life like no other pup that I have had, she is almost 24/7 super happy, mischievious, and playful except when she finally sleeps at night 😘
Linda, thanks for watching these and I am glad you enjoyed them..... Our pups just have the incredible ability to make our lives so much better..... And again, I am so sorry for your recent loss of Max 💜
Allison, I am glad you are able to see all these on facebook too, one of these days we are gonna have to gang up on Sally to get her on there as well, lol, and I am glad we share the same feelings about getting videos of our pups, sometimes I just can't stop 😂
Jerry/Rene, this year we did actually use our snowblower for the maze, but when I started doing this years ago for Polly and Maggie, I shoveled everything myself and it sometimes took me more than 2 days to complete when we had very high snowfalls/blizzards... I can't handle that much shoveling any longer, lol..... And thanks for clearing up the editing problem, the initial problem was the videos posted somehow before I could write anything, and when I tried to edit, Lori and Michelle had posted already, so I just added another separate post. I haven't started any forum posts in a good while, so I guess I just forgot everything, dumb me 😫Â
You are SO not dumb. And a LOT stronger than me, that's a TON of shoveling! WOW!
Miss ya around here, it's so good to hear from you. Feel free to post photos anytime of the pack, we love seeing how they're doing.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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LOVE!!!!!!!!
I know everyone here in the office thinks I'm losing my mind as I'm laughing!!!!
Harmony became a Tripawd on 10/21/14 (MCT). She left us way too soon on 11/1/14.
"We miss you so much; our love, our heart, our Harmony."
- Pam, Ron and Melody, Meesha, Doublestuff and Mariah Carey
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