Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat
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Hi,
I haven't been here for a long time now. My dog Brandy is almost 14 now and lost her front leg to cancer three years ago, but she adapted really well and is still leading a happy life. I wanted to share a picture of her out camping but couldn't figure out how to do that.
Welcome back! It's great to hear from you, and we're glad Brandy is doing so well.
Here are instructions for adding pictures to forum posts. Basically, copy the location of any online image and paste it into the Image URL field using the Insert Image button when drafting your post. If you don't already share photos somewhere online, the easiest way may be to start a blog so you can upload them to your media library.
Hope this helps!
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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Wow - that's pawesome! Hope you can get the pic loading instructions figured out. We'd love to see your girl.
Jackie, Angel Abby's mom
Abby: Aug 1, 2009 – Jan 10, 2012. Our beautiful rescue pup lived LARGE with osteosarcoma for 15 months – half her way-too-short life. I think our "halflistic" approach (mixing traditional meds + supplements) helped her thrive. (PM me for details. I'm happy to help.) She had lung mets for over a year. They took her from us in the end, but they cannot take her spirit! She will live forever in our hearts. She loved the beach and giving kisses and going to In-N-Out for a Flying Dutchman. Tripawds blog, and a more detailed blog here. Please also check out my novel, What the Dog Ate. Now also in paperback! Purchase it at Amazon via Tripawds and help support Tripawds!
Hi,
I tried the blog but a message kept coming back and telling me to only use lower case letters. I checked al my leters, but still couldn't seem to get it to work.
Tried Flickr. Hope this works. I'm not very tech savvy.
She's beautiful. So glad to hear she is kicking cancer's butt.
Karen and Spirit Magnum
Magnum: 30th May 2002 to 5th May 2012. Lost her back left leg to osteosarcoma on 5th Sep 2011. Lung mets found on 20th Mar 2012 but it was bone mets in the hip that ended her brave battle. Magnum's motto - "Dream as if you'll live for ever, live as if you'll die today" (James Dean). Loyal, loving, courageous and spirited to the end. My beloved heart dog, see her memoirs from Rainbow Bridge ...... http://princess.....pawds.com/
Oh, she's a beauty - and she looks like she's having such a good time, chillin' by the fire!
She looks like a very sweet pup. 🙂
Abby: Aug 1, 2009 – Jan 10, 2012. Our beautiful rescue pup lived LARGE with osteosarcoma for 15 months – half her way-too-short life. I think our "halflistic" approach (mixing traditional meds + supplements) helped her thrive. (PM me for details. I'm happy to help.) She had lung mets for over a year. They took her from us in the end, but they cannot take her spirit! She will live forever in our hearts. She loved the beach and giving kisses and going to In-N-Out for a Flying Dutchman. Tripawds blog, and a more detailed blog here. Please also check out my novel, What the Dog Ate. Now also in paperback! Purchase it at Amazon via Tripawds and help support Tripawds!
She looks like she's saying, "Somebody needs to start cooking my hotdog!!!" Glad to hear your girl is doing so very well!!! We love success stories like Brandy's!
Rio's momma, Micki
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Three years? WOW! Congratulations!!! We love it when folks come back to update. I'm so glad that things are going great (and that you figured out how to post a pic...yay!).
I can't recall, did you do chemo or not? And what kind of cancer?
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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No, she didn't do chemo. It's been so long now, I can't remember the name of the type, but the first vet we took her to removed the tumor and then it just went crazy. Within three months it had spread and she had a huge smelly ulcer on her leg. I took her to a different vet and she said that we had to remove the entire leg up to the shoulder to get it all.
I didn't know what to do at the time, but I came on here and was reading and then my vet had another client come down to the clinic with his three-legged dog and I could see how well that dog got along and how happy she was, so we went ahead. It's all history now and I don't even really notice that I have one dog with three legs.
Brandy is getting old now and has some of the difficulties that old dogs get - like not always being in control of her bladder and piddling in her sleep sometimes and her hearing is not what it was. She has a growth above one eye starting, but she's had three more great years, so I have no regets.
Oh yeah -they got burgers and hot dogs.
Here are two more of her friends at our house.
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