Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat
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Sounds to me like Meesha is trying to do some dog-friendly landscaping for you! Adorable.
I'd love to see Mel tackle the hub-a-dub!
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Well our little guy Bonz.... Not only does he have a missing front leg at the age of 13..... He also went completely blind 5 years ago.. So he really does struggle.. Though wnen not blind and 4 legs he was quite the turd.. We had to warn everyone that he would attack them lol..
Well we moved last year and needless to say we always get some of the (why don't you just put him out of his misery) comments from the neighbors when they see bonz. Which is always upsetting but we have learned people are dumb and to just move past it. One day one neighbor of such comments was in our house and bonz was laying on the floor.. bonz was smiling and happy and the neighor went up and stood next to him and said something like "oh this is the blind 3 legged dog?" He started talking to bonz and bonz was looking up at him and smiiiiiiiling all big.. my neighbor started to lean down to pet him.. "i would not do that" i said.... he looked and kinda laughed.. "oh he is ok he is smiling dogs like me"....."seriously i would not do it"... i said as i got this grin on my face anticipating bonz's reaction....
The neighbor of course did not listen.. he leaned down and patted bonz on the head and bonz let him as bonz usually deceptively does to lure in his prey lol... then the neighbor looked up at me and said "see........" haha before he could say i was wrong.. bonz flew up on three legs and snapped his head and went vicious in a way only bonz can.. my neighbor jumped about 3 feet on the air . luckily bonz did not injure him.
though attacking someone is nothing good. it make me smile.. at 13 years old and blind and 3 legs and a cancer survivor.. bonz could not of been the bonz we always knew any more than that.. he loves mamma.. and daddy and if you ain't either of them he is going to let you know in a hurry.
Ever since we moved into this house, Murphy has loved to jump into the bay window. Before we replaced it, it had a wood seat to it, but thanks in part to him, it got all scratched up! It doesn't matter if there's furniture in front of it or not, he will find a way up there.
The other thing he's always done is to dig. One of my favorite videos of him is from a few months after his surgery. He had been outside for a little while already. I think he must have heard a mouse or something under the wood pile, so he decided he needed to dig to find it. So even with just one front paw he showed that he could still dig, great! lol
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Donna
Donna, Glenn & Murphy
Murphy had his right front leg amputated due to histiocytic sarcoma at 7 years old. He survived 4 years, 2 months & 1 week, only to be taken by hemangiosarcoma at 11 1/2 years 6/12/17
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