Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat
Tripawds is your home to learn how to care for a three legged dog or cat, with answers about dog leg amputation, and cat amputation recovery from many years of member experiences.
Join The Tripawds Community
Learn how to help three legged dogs and cats in the forums below. Browse and search as a guest or register for free and get full member benefits:
Instant post approval.
Private messages to members.
Subscribe to favorite topics.
Live Chat and much more!
Register
Log In
Members
Add Topic
Offline
Angels come down from the heavens
Just to help us on our way
Come to teach us, then they leave us
And they find some other soul to save_ Chris Stapleton
Rest easy big fella. Can't wait to see you again.
I will always miss your handsome face. Love you!
Fly free Bender, I know all of our angels are making a huge ruckus over you! Sending love and hugs to all of you. Please find peace in knowing you were such wonderful pawrents. Tears flowing with yours right now, lots of them.
Hugs,
Jackie, Bo, Andy, Oscar, Phoebe, and the coolest feral tripawd kitty Huckleberry 
I am sorry for your loss. Watch for signs Bender will give them to you. Fly free sweet Bender.
Hugs
Michelle and Angel Sassy
Sassy is a proud member of the Winter Warriors. Live long, & strong Winter Warriors.
sassysugarbear.tripawds.com
07/26/2006 - Sassy earned her wings 08/20/2013
05/04/2006 - Bosch, Sassy's pal, earned his wings 03/29/19 fought cancer for 4 months.
"You aren't doing it TO her, you are doing it FOR her. Give her a chance at life."
That is such a beautiful poem and SO true 💕
Our babies are indeed Angels who come here to teach us and then they leave and save another Soul 🌟
Bender was an Angel here on Earth and he won our hearts, all of us fell in love with him instantly, that sweet, gorgeous face and the loving expression in his eyes is too special 💕
I am sorry beyond words he had to earn his wings but am very touched by the fact your heart understood his transition and accepted he is not really gone...
Your poem tells me that.
Angel Eurydice and all of our other Angels are taking really good care of your boy right now, soon he will visit you in your dreams as Angels do 💫
Sending you all my love 😘🐮💫✨🌟🌹
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 :-)
So so sorry on your loss of your beautiful Bender 😥 Fly free new Angel! I know you were greeted in Heaven by all our Angels ready to show you the ropes and how to watch over your loved ones from afar. Hugs to you all at this hardest part of this journey!
Linda & Spirit Mighty Max
So beautiful...the poem and your boy. Sending hugs
Fallon 8/28/06--9/6/18. My Heart.
Fallon's left front leg was amputated due to osteosarcoma on 10/11/17.
Nothing But Love in Her Heart - dawn3g.tripawds.com
Ohhhhhhhh! Nooooo.... dammit cancer, you are a .... well you don't deserve my creative swearing ....
We are deeply sorry, this is such a sad day. Bender was such a rock star, he and you fought so darn hard against this terrible disease. We watched him bounce back after a long, hard recovery, and go on to show the world that against all odds, miracles DO happen!
He didn't live as long as anyone would have wanted. But as you wrestle with your heartache, know that his legacy, his life, it all mattered and will always be here as a beacon of hope.
We send our deepest condolences and love.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
tripawds.com | tripawds.org | bemoredog.net | triday.pet
Only Bender could do this.....only Bender could make us smile through our tears as we look at your adorable picture....always adoravle... always a smile maker who knows how to pose for the camera better than any dog on the Planet.
We are all so very, very sorry to read rhis today. Bender jumped into our hearts from day one. Such a Happy Warrior.....a strong, gentle, happy Warrior.
As Jerry said, Bender showed the world that miracles DO happen. And he definitely showed any ...hmmm...er...short legged, barrel chested doggies that they can rock on three legs...no problem!!
Yes, his life mattered and will have a pawsitive impact eternally here a time someone faces extra challenges. We'll reference this brave little Bull Dog named Bender over and over as an inspiration.
No dog could have been loved more. No one could have done more for him than you did. It's a piece of crap disease but ot never ever could touch Bender's Spirit! Ever!!
Another special pup here named Domino headed to the Bridge yesterday. I have a feeling Bender and Domjno both raced together to the Bridge, free and whole. And when they got there, they got a standing ovation from everyone at the Bridge applauding them for a job well done! Then they immediately sat down for a feast of ice cream and cake, followed by steak and French fries.....in that order.
Ypu paid a beautiful tribute to Bender today with that poem and lovely, lovely picture. Thank you fot sharing that.
When you can, please share more pictures and great stories...when you can. These days and weeks, and even months, will not be easy. The void left after caring for a triapawd thru rhis joirney is so painful. So hard. Eventually, the happier times...and goodness knows their are thousands of happy days and times....will push the grief further into the background.
WE LOVE UOJ BENDER!!!!!! THANK YOJ FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF GETTING TO
KNOW YOU❤❤
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!
Thanks everyone.
All of you had a big impact on Bender's life.
For that we are forever grateful.
I hope one day this awful disease is cured and no one has to go through what we have.
I know Bender is playing with all of your Angels and making good use of new (unhindered) body.
I'm so sorry Bender had to leave you. You did right by your boy and he lived life to the fullest.
I actually heard that song last night, now it will always remind me of Bender.
The special ones never really leave us, they live on in our hearts and so are always by our sides.
Karen and Spirit Maggie
Tri-pug Maggie survived a 4.5 year mast cell cancer battle only to be lost to oral melanoma.
1999 to 2010
Hope you don't mind, but after reading Kare'ns post, it prompted me to,post rhe doll lyrics. You picked such a sweet and gentle way to honor your boy.💖
- 1 of 4
- 2 of 4
Seen my share of broken halos
Folded wings that used to fly
They've all gone wherever they go
Broken halos that used to shineAngels come down from the heavens
Just to help us on our way
Come to teach us, then they leave us
And they find some other soul to saveSeen my share of broken halos
Folded wings that used to fly
They've all gone wherever they go
Broken halos that used to shine
Broken halos that used to shineDon't go looking for the reasons
Don't go asking Jesus why
We're not meant to know the answers
They belong to the by and by
They belong to the by and bySeen my share of broken halos
Folded wings that used to fly
They've all gone wherever they go
Broken halos that used to shine
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!
Yep, got tears now... love Chris Stapleton, those words just speak right to the heart. Thank you Sally xoxo
Hugs,
Jackie, Bo, Andy, Oscar, Phoebe, and the coolest feral tripawd kitty Huckleberry
I know you do. That quiet in the house is deafening. Your angel is watching over you, he always will.
This is the toughest time in my opinion. Maybe you could share some pictures, stories, videos with us. I know that will involve tears, but it will also involve smiles and love.
I know Bender is in a better place now, and he's rocking some serious Bender wings!! That boy is whole again and pain free.
We never ever stop missing them, but we do learn to smile at the beautiful memories that we made together.
Lots of love and hugs,
Jackie and Huck 💖💖💖
Hugs,
Jackie, Bo, Andy, Oscar, Phoebe, and the coolest feral tripawd kitty Huckleberry
One of the sweetest photos evvver!!! I'm so glad you captured that beautiful moment with your beautiful boy.❤
Our hearts still break with yours. And oh how I wish that meany we could take some of your pain away and carry it for you for awhile. Unfortunately we know all do well, to get through grief, it has to be endured one second at a time with seemingly no break in between. You don't want to sleep because your sadness is so debilitating. You don't want to wake up because your sadness is so debilitating. You can't think straight. You walk around aimlessly.
At some point, there will be a break. At sone point, as Jackie mentioned, the smiles will start to come more easily. Maybe not today or tomorrow toorrow, but it will happen. And you'll realize that Bender is still with you and wants nothing more than for you to,push the heartbreak further into the background and replace it with things he did to make you smile. And one thing we all know with absolute certainty, adorable Bender is one of the biggest smile makers on the Planet!!
We humans are the ones with the heartbreak. Bender is free and happy and knows he's still with you, just in energy form. Spirit / Soul form. His Soul completed what it needed to do in earth clothes. His earth mission was done. That doesn't mean he isn't still teaching us...you can bet he is!! He's just doing it from another dimension that he has moved into. As your grief lessens, and it will eventually, you will feel his connection so very strongly as he continues to guide you through more life lessons.
Have you felt any "messages" or "signs" from him yet? You may not be able to be receptive yet to his presence, but we all promise you, he WILL make his presence known to you! It may be through nature` it may be in your dreams; it may be a sound or through your sense of smell; it may even be "seeing" Bender.
I know I speak for everyone here, please continue to share more of Bender with us as you can. Such a very, very special boy to us all💖 Sooooo loved...soooo well loved.💖
Surrounding you with Bender's eternal bright light of joy
Sally and My Chunky Spiritual Being Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie
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!
2 Guest(s)
