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Hello All! Just wanted to introduce the new Tripawd member of our family! We recently bought a home and it just wasn't complete without a dog. As we searched for a sweet pup to adopt we came upon Freyja. She is a St. Bernard mix for sure (mom was pure bred) and we suspect the sperm donor was a Boxer or Mastiff given her Brindle coloring. Born with a non functioning front left leg she has been a tripawd sense birth and had the limb totally amputated while in the care of an animal shelter. We love her to bits and are excited to grow with her, she was just born in June 2015!
Any tips or tricks for tripawd puppies are welcome, she is working on crate training and is almost there with the bathroom thing, just needs to learn better bladder control. So far it seems like there aren't to many things that are different from training a four legged puppy but we are prepared if something else comes up!
This little (big) pup has a heart of gold and a face of. well. drool. We love her so much and look forward to keeping up on this ever so helpful page!
-Grace and Naomi (and Freyja too!)
P.S images to come, but I don't have them online and I don't think I have permissions yet to attach images.
Welcome! Congratulation Freyja is beautiful. Bless you for rescuing her! Glad you found tripawds there's so much here to help you to help Freyja live a healthy, happy tripawds life. I'm going to bet Jerry will be here shortly with much info for you. Again congratulations on your new pack member!
Linda & Max
Hi again, thanks for sharing your story!
You don't need any additional permissions to add photos, but they do have to be hosted on line somewhere. You can start a blog here for free and load the pictures there (that's the way I do it).
Here are the instructions for adding photos.
I just adopted a 10 month old pug mix tripawd. Her name is Elly and she was hit by a car and lost her back right leg. She is my second tripawd but my first so young, and not dealing with cancer. I'm definitely going to spend much more time working on strength exercises with her- she has a lot of years a head without that spare leg!
Karen
Tri-pug Maggie survived a 4.5 year mast cell cancer battle only to be lost to oral melanoma.
1999 to 2010
How sweet! The biggest thing is traction . Tripawds have a hard time with wood floors, so rugs, runners or even just yoga matts help. Since she's going to be a bigger girl, you might want to eventually have raised dishes for her. A good harness is also essential - we use the ruffwear harness for Murphy, but it tends to slip some since he doesn't have that front leg to hold it in place. The convert harness is newer since we bought ours and looks like it stays in place better for the front tripawds. They both have a handle on top which is great to help get the dog out of the car.
And yes, we love pictures!
Donna
Donna, Glenn & Murphy
Murphy had his right front leg amputated due to histiocytic sarcoma at 7 years old. He survived 4 years, 2 months & 1 week, only to be taken by hemangiosarcoma at 11 1/2 years 6/12/17
Read about Murphy's Life on Three Legs
Hello Freyja!!! and welcome Grace and Naomi!
Congrats on your new baby, she is beautiful!!! What a lucky girl to have found you. This site is filled with so much wonderful information and support. I'm fairly new here as well so I dont have a whole lot of info but wanted to say hello 
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