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This is our foster pascha! She just joined the club! She was suspected of being hit by a car and it caused neurological damage as well as broke her leg. Her leg healed but super incorrectly. It was causing her a lot of pain and she would just literally drag it along. So now that she is without that extra weight she is thriving! She goes to the bathroom unassisted (we were fully ready to help her she just didnt need it), she is maneuvering better than she did before and we even have to stop her from jumping up and running! I don't see a lot of posts about dogs who have a similar story so I thought you guys might enjoy paschas story ❤️ we are so incredibly proud of her and the progress she has made!

Koda has been doing great since coming home! The last 2 days she has gotten out twice to lay in the grass and potty outside. She has gotten herself up in the grass and walked a little unassisted. Getting stronger everyday! Figured out she needs anxiety meds in the evening to help her sleep through the night but doing so good taking her boatload of medicine.

He's very alert now that the meds have worn off, standing with no problems, not liking the confinement and the cone. Keeping him still will be a challenge

Meet Sweetheart. My tripod german shepherd and professional attention seeker😂. Also the love of my life. We're new to the community and just wanted to say hi!

The right leg is gone, Toby is back home... now for recovery. Still groggy and we had a pee accident in the bed... I'll admit I'm feeling overwhelmed. Only one way to the other side is through it!

Happy Rescue Dog Day from my 3-legged beauty Happy💕

Neville had his surgery today and all went as expected. He’s having a little bit of a rougher recovery which I think is because he’s so high from the pain medications that he’s on.

We tried to get him up and outside but he’s not able to walk quite yet. Found a big bladder so they catheterized him which made him feel a lot more comfortable.

Thank you all for your good vibes, keep sending them our way!

Django is 9 days post op today, and he will be running out of his gabapentin and antibiotics tomorrow. We ran out of the Carprofen a couple days ago and I’m so nervous he’s going to be in pain still! Did everyone else have their meds stopped before the two week mark? I called and checked with the vet and they even said that we’ll be stopping his meds. The nights are just still so hard, we do have tramadol and trazadone on hand but I absolutely hate getting him so looped up on these meds, he acts as if he’s scared on them and it takes almost 2-3 hours after dosing for him to even fall asleep. I just want my boy as comfortable as possible 😔

He removed the right front leg of his new stuffy , the same limb he's losing tomorrow. We think it's a good omen

My boy Spencer is a couple months out from his surgery and competed in his first Scentwork trial since his operation! He had a blast and earned a couple placements!

6 days later and she is finally home with a boatload of medications! She is doing great already on her 3 legs and enjoyed some time laying in the grass when we got home.

And here I was, heartbroken thinking he wouldn’t be able to hike with me anymore. Dogs are amazing 😭

Hello tripawd family Meet Luna ❤️ today marks day 7 post op

we are now off the nappies airing out our stitches as per request of the vet 😎 adjusting well

We suddenly lost our boy yesterday, 7 months post op. The cancer had spread to his lungs, but his x-ray 2 weeks ago wasn’t super concerning. He was even playing the night before. He was very lethargic yesterday morning and by early afternoon we decided to take him to the er. We tried to have him stand on his own but he collapsed and that was it. Thank you everyone for the advice and support as we were going through this. 💜

Trying to see if this is a tripawd thing or a “my dog is weird” thing. Anyone else’s dog just sit back like this? I always assumed he did it when the weight of his body on his front leg is too much but then why doesn’t he just lie down instead? Maybe his old owners taught him how to do this? It seems to happen mostly randomly— he’ll just be sitting like a normal dog one second and then just sit back like this! He’s also really good at balancing on just two legs when he’s begging, maybe it’s correlated.

We adopted Toby less than a year ago and were told that he had a previous leg injury on his right leg at the joint . It was never addressed with surgery. It's become more apparent and re-injured lately and now we are scheduled to have an amputation on Thursday.

This is Sweet Pea. When she was about a year old, she was found wandering the winter wilderness in Colorado with a badly wounded leg. She was rescued but the vets were unable to save the leg. We adopted her about a year later and this video was taken about two years after her amputation. As you can tell, she loved the water and LOVED to run and could often out maneuver the other dogs as she learned to skid and pivot on her legless side to switch directions faster than her playmates.

When we first adopted her, our vet gave us such great advice: (1) keep her trim so excess weight isn't put on the remaining leg, and (b) keep her active so the leg stays strong. She was such an amazing dog and stayed active until she succumbed to cancer when she was 14. But she never let her disability hinder her in any way and lived a very long, happy, and active life.