Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat
Tripawds is your home to learn how to care for a three legged dog or cat, with answers about dog leg amputation, and cat amputation recovery from many years of member experiences.
Join The Tripawds Community
Learn how to help three legged dogs and cats in the forums below. Browse and search as a guest or register for free and get full member benefits:
Instant post approval.
Private messages to members.
Subscribe to favorite topics.
Live Chat and much more!
Register
Log In
Members
Add Topic
Offline
Yes thats what it was! Its hard to remember which was which but yeah that.
And she went pee and poop! I think she's decided to change her bathroom time on us since last night. Making me worry about her and my poor mother having to deal with me, oh lord. Not happy shes decided to wait until late at night but at least she's not actually having trouble going at all.
Staples still holding good and her next appointment is in a couple of days to hopefully get them taken out.
Hi,
I just started reading Pebble’s story. I am so happy it seems like she is progressing through her recovery well.
From my recent experience with my right hind leg amputation on my dog (7/1/24) he changed up all of his habits including his potty habits after the amputation. It throws you off a little and is a little distressing. I just learned to go with all his little changes and just about the time I would get comfortable with the changes he went right back to his usual habits. It was comforting to me when he went back to his usual habits. I am hoping that is what happens with Pebbles.
Keep doing a great job and I look forward to hearing more about Pebbles’ recovery.
YAAAAAY FOR A GOOD PEE AND 
Sounds like things are "running smoothly"😎
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
Glad everything worked out! YAY!!!
This is all such an educational learning experience isn't it? The one nobody wants but now you are smarter and stronger because of it. 
Hope this weekend goes smoothly for the pack. 
So question. How long is the seroma supposed to last? When she's laying down its a low amount and manageable nice and watery but everytime I have to take her outside its big spots.
I've been using puppy pads between the shirt and the harness we were given to just sorta pad it between but anytime we get her up she always comes back with big bloody looking spots. They're like light blood, nothing super bloody or anything but I assume its just all the collected fluid seeping out along with thr pressure from the harness.
Her stitches are supposed to come off on thr 18th, if its still doing this will they still remove them? I assume itd be closed by then but is there any real concern here? I'm gonna be shooting my vet a message too.
So I did not ever want to make a post like this, especially on such short notice, but things have happened and Pebbles is no longer with us.
A complication happened, I looked away for one moment and she was suddenly gushing blood to a point where I was scared she was bleeding out. We managed to get her to an emergency ER where we were basically told that it was likely a huge fluid built up under the skin and it all just let loose. She was uncomfortable, in pain, it pretty much swelled to the size of a balloon as I tried to cover the damn thing in gauze fast enough.
This terrified both me and mom, we had a few options but we weren't able to afford hospitalization and taking her home when we had no vet experience where she would be uncomfortable and in pain all night with us icing her just to be once more shoved into the back of a car on a bumpy ride to /maybe/ get seen by our new vet was not something we felt we could put her through. Especially if this had a possibility of happening again. There was also the mention of her skin quite literally being dead because some of the area around the staples were black. We just thought it was bruising but uh-guess not?
We know she wasn't happy at all being confined to a bed all week, sure she liked going outside but she often would stop moving more minutes at a time and refuse to go back inside. We had hoped that after we got the stitches out we could go back to sorta normal and tried to hold out but hearing her cry, she was not a vocal dog, like that was too much and we were worried we'd just end up hurting her more with our lack of actual care experience. Along with no help from Dad (The stairs were funny but he is really quite a jerk of a person, basically never offered to help despite claiming to love Pebbles so much) or my brother, me and my older mom decided it was best to let her go. We are both devastated.
I want to thank everyone for being so nice and helpful, I'm sorry I can't give out good news. She passed with plenty of kisses and eating an ice cream sundae. Let this be a lesson to really get any sort of bump checked out before it's too late. Had we gotten to it sooner this might not have happened.
Shocked and stunned, and so very, very heartbroken! I really cant even begin to formulate any words at this moment...there are no words anyway.
I want to come back when my tears aren't falling so hard. I'm just so very, very sorry....so gutted for you. I know Pebbles is free from pain now and running happily as she headed to the Rainvow Bridge
With love
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
Oh my gosh! I'm so very, very sorry, that is such a terrible shock. What a heartbreaking situation, and I know you two did your best under very difficult circumstances. My heart hurts for you, I just don't have the right words... 
You didn't let her suffer and she knew she was so loved.
Run free Pebbles, your beautiful spirit shines on forever.
2 Guest(s)
