Welcome to you and Cheeto! He looks like a very happy pup.

Our pup did very well as a tripawd. She could still run like mad. Folks often didn't even realize she was 3-legged until she stopped. Of course, we also had cancer to deal with so it's "good" that Cheeto is a tripawd due to an accident and not due to cancer like so many pups are.

You'll find lots of helpful folks here! Let us know how the surgery goes! Sending good thoughts your way! Rest up because the recoverly period (usually about 10-14 days) can be tiring - maybe more so for you than for Cheeto!

It's awesome to be a Tripawd Pawrent. Welcome to the club,
Jackie, Angel Abby's mom

Hi and welcome!  So sorry Cheeto had a rough go, but sounds like he may have hit the jackpot with his new family.  Don't worry about leaving him - they are on SO much pain medication after the surgery that the only thing they wonder about is the pink elephants floating around the room.  By the time the meds begin wearing off, he'll be ready to come home.

Jackie is right, the recovery can be tiring so try and get some rest before he comes home.  His confidence will be a bit shaken right at first, so lots of encouragement when he gets home.  If you have time, pick up some throw rugs to place over slippery surfaces so he doesn't slip and fall - that can be a bit of a set-back mentally for them.  Good luck!

Lisa

Hi Cheeto! We send heeling wishes your way.

Shadow and his mom, Heather

Welcome Cheeto and famiily. First of all Cheeto you are very lucky. If your mom wouldn't have picked you up off that road, most likely you would not be here. Secondly it is also good you are food oriented. 

I have a special place in my heart for people who intervene or who stop to pick up an animal off the road. I have done this so many times I cannot even count. I do it for turtles, birds, etc, and once for a cat who it looked like had been thrown out of a moving car because the vet said that the front paws were messed up and it had bitten its tongue and had a bloody jaw which would indicated it had landed face first trying to catch itself. Years ago my husband and I (boyfriend at the time) were leaving a beach in the dunes of Indiana and it was in the wee morning hours in the heat of summer. She was right in the middle of the road on the yellow lines. I told my husband, STOP, let's go back. I don't think that cat is dead! So we stopped and I was expecting to find the worst. Luckily we had a towel in the car and a big bucket. You know those kinds that people bring on the beach and fill with ice and put drinks in it. Most of the blood was just out of the mouth and there were no big breaks in the limbs. So I picked her up. She did not fight me, probably because she was in shock. We were at my in laws and they have pets of their own so for safety we had to put her in the garage, still in the bucket, wrapped in her blanket and we left the light on with some water there, expecting her to be dead in the morning. Unfortunately there was no vets open so there was nothing we could do at that time. The next day, miraculously, she was still alive and we called a vets office and they said to bring her in. They treated her, she lived, and ended up being adopted. I learned my lesson that I should always have some kind of blanket or towel or crate in my car at all times because fate seems to bring these animals my way. My husband always has to be ready for a huge STOP! while we are driving because I always seem to see them where others don't. That is just my calling I guess. I have watched over stunned birds as they get their wits back about themselves after hitting a window and treated baby rabbits who got into my garden and bloodied their nose trying to get back out through the tiny holes in the bottom of our rabbit fence. 

So bless you for what you are doing. You got lucky to have found Cheeto and Cheeto was lucky to have found you! 

Hope all goes well during surgery and recovery. 

Cadence's Mom