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Hey everyone! I am looking for a medium float coat for my little tri-pawd, Frankie. She just had a front leg amputation and is going to need a little help getting beach ready!
Hi Frankie & family, thanks for posting. Do you know her exact girth? Just want to make sure that a medium will fit you.
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I have Daisys Float coat (past down to us by Hurricane Rosie-when she was a youngster) I think it is a large. Daisy was 38 lbs. and it was a bit big but it worked fairly good. If you have Frankies measurements and it would fit I will send it to you. It still has lots of good Mastiff and Dalmatian juju left in it 🙂
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We have an old, but barely used float coat , that fit our 65 lb Lab (she had paralyzed hind legs due to a disc problem for the last year of her life). I'll dig it out to see if it has a size on it. Roughly how big is Frankie? I'm just wondering if it's worth the search (if Frankie is 20 lbs, then it's not!).
K, an 8 year old chocolate lab, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma of the radius and ulna on 12/23/11. She had stereotactic radiation to kill the bone tumors, and 3 rounds of carboplatin. On 3/16/12, lung mets were found. We tried several different kinds of chemotherapy to slow the lung mets but none worked. Finally, mets appeared at other sites, including her spine. She earned her angel wings on July 15, 2012. K changed my life, and I'll never forget her. Our/my journey is chronicled at romp-roll-rockies.blogspot.com.
I definitely agree about checking girth for one. I just bought one made by "outward hound" for Teddy. By weight he should be a small; but I guess shih tzus are all body and not much leg, so his weight is distributed differently. We had to get the medium size even though it is for dogs 20 - 50 lbs (he is only 12.5 lbs). The small would not even fasten around him!
So just be sure to go on girth, not just weight! good luck.
(oh, and if you are looking to buy one... I am generally a Ruff Wear fan; but got this one because it was what was available at PetSmart. We have been using it all week for our quadpaw and it has done great.)
Jac and Angel Spencer. Spencer was 5.25 years old. He fought a grade 3 fibrosarcoma, started on his shoulder. Left front leg amputated in August 2011. 15 weeks of chemo finished 12/22/11 (mytox and adria). Lung mets found on x-rays 12/28/11. Started carboplatin 1/6/12. Went to Heaven on 2/27/12. I miss him like crazy every day. See his blog here: http://spencer.tripawds.com/
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