Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat
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Wow look at Godzilla go! Looking good there my friend! Thanks for sharing her remarkable pawgress!
Linda & Max
Great video's! I am glad Godzilla is doing so well. Always puts a smile on my face to see a tripawd so happy walking/running/playing.
Oh gosh! So glad this post got "bumped up"! I had not seen these videos! GRRRRRRREAT VIDE! This is how tripawds roll!
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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!
Wel it has been 1 year since our Godzilla became a Tripaw. OMG, where has the time gone? She is doing awesome. This has not stopped her or slowed her down at all. The ONLY bad thing out of this is when Godzilla has a scratch on the side of her head or neck she still tries to scratch it with her missing leg! It's kind of funny to watch seeing that stump moving a mile a minute and the look on her face because the itch will not go away. LMAO Usually she will come over and lay her head on our lap and look at us with that sweet look of Pleeeease scratch my head! 
She is one great dog!!! Hear she is a couple of days ago.
She's amazing! Many congratulations on your ampuversary!
Meg and Clare xx
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...
She does look great, and somehow, the name Godzilla really seems to fit! Ditto the comments on slowing her down a bit. It is major surgery - we were told to restrict movement to short, leased potty breaks only until the staples came out (about day 10). You might also find that she crashes a bit as the hospital meds wear off. For many dogs, this happens around days 3 - 5. And I definitely agree on the drive through cheeseburger thing!
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.
Wheeee! Look out world, Godzilla is taking over!
Congrats on a year of so much progress. I looked back on your first few posts, sounds like nothing has slowed this amazing dog. Awesome!
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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OK, my prior post was idiotic - I wasn't looking at the dates very closely. Happy 1 year ampuversary, and obviously, she is doing great with her activity level!
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.
Oh my DOG !!!
I am sure she has a fully charged battery hidden somewhere in her body !
Amazing how she shoots off then has a little drink then shoots off again ...
Lovely video !
Sending you a big hug and cuddles to Zila 
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 :-)
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