Hi,

I am Zoey's mom.  We have been together for a year, Valentine's Day.  We rescued her from Animal Control on a cold and rainey day.  She was shivering and still healing from a horribly preformed spay job.  She had a slight limp, which we attributed to the conditions from which she was rescued from.  But after a month, it persisted.  I had an uneasy feeling as I waited for the x-rays.  Her radius stopped growing and was bashing into her ulna with every step.  It was floating and no longer attached to her elbow joint.  Everything above the elbow joint was fine, so I couldn't justify taking the entire leg from her.  With a partial amputation at the midpoint of the humerous, she is able to maintain some of the balance I feel would have been lost with a complete amputation.  She has reached her full size and gained some additional length in her humerous.  She moves it freely and uses it to run full speed.  I am so happy to have found this site and would just like to see if anyone else out there has any experience with partial amputations?