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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
Hi Clare 
Thank you so much for your beautiful words ... and you just gave me another excuse to publish one of my favourites of her at the beach yesterday playing with her leash 
who says big dogs on 3 can't have fun ???
Sending you lots of love and cuddles to your sweeties
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
Look at her PAW PRINTS!!!! Just look at her PAW PRINTS!!!! OMD, I'm in love with her PAW PRINTS!!!!
Some day thousands of years from now, someone will find a giant fossilised paw print, somewhere off the coast of Portugal, and wonder what kind of extraordinary creature can possibly have left it...
Lovely to see her making new friends. She brings so much joy wherever she goes. And that one with the man in the stripy T shirt kneeling down, you can really see how big her beautiful head is. Like seriously bigger than all of Elsie. Magnificent Eurydice
Sending love!
M, C & EP xxx
Ruby, Staffy, born June 2022, became a Tripawd, November 2023, adopted January 2024.
Also Angel Tripawd Meg (aka The Megastar), who died in April 2023, aged 14, after seven glorious years on three, and Angel Staffies Elsie Pie and Bille. In the pawprints of giants...
Hey Jerry Sally and Clare 💜💚💛
Thank you so much for being happy with us 💕💕💕 soooooo wish we could do this trip together 💓
And Sally, truth is although I always enjoyed my time with Eurydice since the day I saw that irresistibly cute little face of hers 💘and tried to make every day great it would have been too easy to be discouraged after my girl's diagnosis and subsequent treatments and above all the terrible reality of facing an incurable cancer 😡😔😔😔
You guys were and are my guiding light, it is only because of you that I get on with every day not counting and worrying about how many are potentially left 😐
I am forever thankful I found you and so glad I can show others Eurydice's example of how we can give our babies a good life and laugh together and how they can overcome their handicap 💪🏽👊🏾
Clare, I so laughed at the paw print fossil idea 😂😂 she really has huge paws 🔝🐾 hence the booties saga which lasted until we found Julia 😇
Sending you an avalanche of kisses 😘😘😘😘 and cuddles to your gorgeous fluffies 🐾🐾🐾🐶🐶🐶❤️❤️❤️
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
Busy day today, folks! I had a good hop around in Sintra in the morning
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
And then on to Lisbon to meet grandma and granpa
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
LOOOOOVE the romp on the beach!! Eurydice has to be the happiest dog in the world,! She just exudes joy!! 🙂
And she looks so ADORABLE in her "stockings"! That's such a pretty picture!
Granny and Grandpa sure know how to pick a lovely and scenic place to have lunch! Thanks for sharing your travels with us...and for sharing your parents with us!! Eurydice has ato delightful family!!
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!
This is the best travel log. Miss Moo is quite the character and sure likes to have fun. Does she like to act up for the camera?
I also loved Clare's comment about someone finding Eurydice's fossilized footprints thousands of years from now. They would say, "By jove, this hugh creature only had 3 legs! What could it have been?"
I'm so happy you are enjoying your travels and have the time to visit your family. What wonderful memories.
Hugs to all,
Kerren and Tripawd Kitty Mona
Yeah, cute vision of the thought bubbles when "the future"; finds the paw prints 🙂
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!
Hey Sally and Kerren ❤️❤️
Yes, yes she is a grossly oversized happy bunny 🐰 and I am soooooo happy we can do this trip !
Her back leg muscles are unbelievably strong now as we do a lot of going up and down hills here and she is in the greatest form 💪🏽 and deliriously happy, her eyes smile all the time 💗💗💗 sometimes I look at her and my heart gets so overwhelmed I think It is going to explode with joy 💥💖
You got it right, Kerren, she luuuurves to pose for the camera, she is quite a girlie girl whenever a camera is pointing at her goofy little face 📽
Sending you both all my love and an avalanche of kisses plus cuddles to your sweetie doggies and kitties ❤️❤️😘😘😘🐶🐶😺😺
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
Nothing more to say than this thread is just wonderful. After some of the devastating news we've read today its beautiful to also read the hope and joy. Please keep it coming.
Big sloppy kisses to Eurydice from Zuks (AKA Wugs/Wuggy/Wuggafer - no idea why!!)
xxx
Zuki Wuggafer 30/09/06 - 11/11/16. Right hind tripawd due to Osteosarcoma. He had a strong 5 and half months as a tripawd but unfortunately a secondary issue with his spine ended our battle. He loved life, loved our family and was the best dog I could ever ask for. Truly my first love, forever in my thoughts and heart.
Read our story: http://zuki.tripawds.com/
Eurydice is so happy because she has the best Mom in the entire Universe! Your delightfully pawsitive e ergy beings joy to everyone!!
A d I NEVER grow tired of all the cute little...whatever they're called.. icons.....they light up my world...just like you and Eurydice do!! 🙂
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!
Hey Zuki and Sally 💗💗
When I read your comment my heart sunk as I realised something terrible must have happened to one of our babies 😔
I never, ever would have imagined it was sweet Tess who joined Otis so, so soon and so unexpectedly 😞😞😞
I so hate this ugly disease 😡😡😡
The only "consolation" is to know that when our babies leave us they will be still around us 👻👻👻👻👻 and we will meet them again one day.
I am a strong believer in that, our bond in this world is far too strong 🔒💘 we have to be able to be together forever in another form one day ✨✨✨💫💫
Sally, thank you so much for the Best Mom in the Universe Cup 🏆 but in all truth we gotta get thousands delivered at Tripawds 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏅🏅🏅🏅🎖🎖🎖🎖and let the world know we LOVE our cuties back the same way they LOVE us 📡 it is all normal 💝
I am as good a Mom as all of you lovely pawrents💕💕💕 our doggies and kitties are our furry wonderful, cute, marvellous, lovely best best best friends 💘💘💘💘💘💘
Out for lunch with another close friend today so might have some photos later 📷
Sending you lots and lots and lots of hugs and cuddles to your cutie pies 😘😘😘😘🐾🐾🐾❤️
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
sometimes I look at her and my heart gets so overwhelmed I think It is going to explode with joy
Isn't that just the best feeling in the world!
It's also why it hurts so terribly when they leave us, of course, but that's why we need to seize hold of and cherish every moment. That's all we can do and that's what you are doing with your Magnificent Eurydice
Have a lovely lunch with your friend and... more pics later please 
lots of love from Meg and Clare (and Elsie Pie) xxx
Ruby, Staffy, born June 2022, became a Tripawd, November 2023, adopted January 2024.
Also Angel Tripawd Meg (aka The Megastar), who died in April 2023, aged 14, after seven glorious years on three, and Angel Staffies Elsie Pie and Bille. In the pawprints of giants...
Even those of us in the blubbering mess category love your photos! It is so important to cherish that great post-chemo time when they are adjusted to life on 3 and feeling great! And how wonderful that she and you are able to spend time with family in such beautiful places. What dog wouldn't be happy?
Otis - 106 pound lab/Dane mix, lost his right front leg to osteosarcoma on Febuary 9, 2016. Four rounds of carboplatin completed in April, 2016. Lung mets August 25, 2016. Said goodbye too soon on September 4, 2016. Lost his adopted sister, Tess, suddenly on October 9, 2016. likely due to hemangiosarcoma.
Wherever they are, they are together.
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