Hello everyone!! I’m excited to have found a forum for tripods as I recently became an owner of one so here’s her story. Sorry if it’s long but thank you for reading on.

A little bit of my background first. I’m a vet tech at a small animal clinic. I love my job & the people I work with, we’re a close family. Unfortunately we work in a poor area where we see a lot of animal neglect, abuse & people who can’t afford much. So naturally a majority of us at the clinic have come home with a sick & unwanted pet that a previous owner wanted to euthanize. 
 In August we had a client come in with their 3 year old Cane Corso. They kept the dog chained up outside 24/7. At one time in March or even before then, she was attacked by another dog who bit her right front leg. This went unnoticed until the owner took her to a vet in April because she was limping. They did xrays & found that she had developed osteomyelitis (a bone infection). They put her on antibiotics and wanted to see her back in a couple weeks to see if she was improving. Fast forward to August, the owner never took her back to the vet so this had now been going on for 4 months. She came to us limping, she couldn’t put weight on her leg at all. She had several open wounds that had pus running down her leg. We gave them their options, treat it aggressively with antibiotics, therapy etc, amputate the leg or euthanize. They didn’t want to do any of those options (were absolutely appalled at having a 3 legged dog)& asked if we knew a shelter that would take her. So I step in & have them surrender her to me so I can treat her. I happen to love Cane Corsos as I already have 2. They didn’t even want to say goodbye to her, not even the kid.

So we try to save the leg at first. I did everything possible, cultures,drains, antibiotics, pain meds,injections, water therapy, lite therapy etc. At times it seemed like it was getting better, she was even able to walk on it again. Through it all, she was so sweet and tolerant even though I knew she was in a lot of pain. But in the end, her bone became too weak & was on the verge of breaking so at the end of October we decided to amputate.

When I first took her home she was terrified of other dogs, would attack any dog that got within 10 feet of her. She didn’t know what stairs were, scared of being indoors, basically didn’t know what being a dog was. With just some TLC, patience & love I got her over all of it. So I now own a 3 legged dog who is the sweetest, friendliest, happiest dog you will ever meet. She now runs around with her sisters playing, loves sleeping on her bed & being wherever we are. She gets to go to work with me everyday & has become our mascot as we all love her