Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat
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YAAAAAAAAAY FOR POOP!!!! HAPPY POOP DANCE GOING ON ACROSS THE TRIPAWD UNIVERSE!!!
Good job Chance!!!
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!
Is icing or heat a good idea in these first few days?
I'm so glad to hear Poop Happened! YAY!
In this Massage and Rehab Therapy post in our News blog , Dr. Leslie Gallagher says:
- Use cold within 48 hours to 3 days after the injury or surgery. Ice reduces swelling and inflammation.
- When an injury is no longer acute, switch back and forth between ice and heat.
- Apply ice for five minutes, heat for 5 minutes, then ice for 5 minutes. Always end with ice.
- Keep a towel between the ice pack and fur
- Test heat before application
Hope this helps.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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YUHUUUUUU !!!!
YABADABADOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!
Well done Chance 
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 :-)
Don't want to miss out on the happy poop dance!
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.
Love the enthusiasm over pooh. Only here! Sounds like you guys are doing great. That is so good to hear!
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...
also his poop looks nice and healthy! even extra happy poo dance! I have been cooking for him since we got the osteosarcoma diagnosis and he loves the food I make and it has made him more solid - prior to this he was prone to soft serve
Thanks all for the 5 day 'dip' warning ... he seems to be feeling a little of that today. More tired, maybe feeling a little down-ish. If it hadn't been for your heads up that this might happen I would probably worry. But all in all he seems to be feeling great. Catheter comes out tomorrow.
Jerry -- Leslie Gallagher is a friend of a friend and when I lived in LA I took my first pup Zoe to see her when she was getting elbow arthritis. So I will trust and follow her heat/ice regimen! Thx!
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