Just received this letter from Chantelle, who purchased a Ruff Wear harness for her sister's dog, Cattiva:

New member anjo just gave Tripawds this heartfelt shout-out:

I just wanted to join to let you all know that this site is quite simply wonderful.

We have two Great Pyrenean Mountain dogs, Toby 8.5 and Ella 11.5. Toby was diagnosed with an osteosarcoma one week ago. We felt a lump when we were stroking him. He was in no pain at all, no limp.

When we were told we were devastated. I saw this site and it helped my husband and I to make the very difficult decisions that were required. Toby had his left fore leg amputated this morning. He is in recovery at the moment.

This was my beautiful princess, Cinderella. Today would have been Cinder's 4month ampuversary, unfortunately she is no longer with us as of Monday.

Cinder's amputation never slowed her down. She was going downstairs just two days after her amputation, which shocked us all as myfamily blocked the stairway, but Cinder found a way aro…undit. She was always a very happy dog! But the cancer kept spreadingthroughout her body. During the last month she had quite large lumps onher body and during her last days she was blind in one eye and goingblind in the other. Even with all of these obstacles she had a smile onher face moments before the end.

We miss her terribly! When myfamily was deciding if amputation was the right thing for her, we usedthe tripawds website to learn more about it, and we would do it againin a heartbeat. I would like to thank this site and the people using itfor sharing their stories.

Letters like this are so beautiful . . .

Tripawds member Colleen recently wrote to us to share her experience discovering Tripawds, when she had to contemplate amputation for Kenya, her senior Tripawd:

"I don't know WHAT I would have done if I hadn't found your site!

Since you read Kenya's story, you know we had to make a snap decision about amputation with no prior clue this might be a possibility so we never got to do any research or get a clue whatsoever about all this before we left our beloved little pooper at the vets to be tripawd-ed.

I was a wreck. I couldn't even remember seeing a 3 legged dog walking / running - (I'm sure I had) and I couldn't even imagine how it worked, how she could run or get up or anything with only 1 front leg.

When I found your site, I could see a future for her!!! I saw happy dogs who had JUST been through what we were facing. And - ANSWERS to questions ... and people who were right there with us ... a few days ahead or behind but having the same bad dream we were having and helping each other through it."

Finding Moose the Great Dane Tripawd on YouTube was how we decided to proceed with Jerry's amputation. Here is a post from Lira's Mom who found us when she too was looking for hope:

I have to say that I am glad this site exists. I happened to find it after i checked out 3 legged dogs on youtube.

This site has been so helpful in so many ways. It is very comforting to know that I can get advice, ideas and just hear other stories. I don't feel alone at all and for that I am grateful.