We have three dogs in the family, one of them is a tripod and she’s the strongest and the fastest. It’s amazing how dogs can adapt and keep on living normally with 3/4 of their limbs.
Thank you for sharing this. It is what I need to show my kids before our little rescue dog loses a back leg due to bone cancer tomorrow. They find it hard to believe that she can have a good life post-op. She is only 4 years old.
My 11 year old husky just lost his back leg due to an aggressive cancerous lump that couldn't be removed from his hock lower leg . It was a no brainer to save his life to stop it spreading through his body. Did all the scans/test to check it hadn't gong to lungs came back clear. He is 2 days post op and doing really well 💪. Sitting up standing slowly by himself and shuffling along. To see your doggo doing so well now you really did save his life and he is happy 😊. Dogs are such strong resilient beings. They just get on with it and adapt. 👍
Thank you. My 2 year old Rottweiler loses her back leg in two days. I’m devastated by the cancer diagnosis at such a young age. I need to believe I’m doing the right thing.
I think a lot of us watch videos like this because we’re going through the same thing. Three days ago we agreed to adopt a foster dog named Pebbles. She is a seven month old Whipador, combination Whippet and Labrador. We knew that the first family that owned her had some sort of accident in the backyard, and at four months, Pebbles had a severe fracture of the right femur. They dropped her off at the Humane Society, who took three days to get her to a vet. The break was horrendous but for some reason they chose to have a doctor try to repair it. He obviously didn’t know what he was doing, because he put in a plate and six screws. Any competent orthopedic vet will tell you you don’t use a plate on a puppy because their bones are still growing. We took her to our vet to see if perhaps physical therapy or some other therapy would help. But they x-rayed her leg and the bone was split at an angle shattered and the plate was hanging off. God knows how Pebbles stood the pain, but she has the sweetest disposition of any dog I’ve ever seen. today we had her leg amputated. When she recovers over the next few weeks we know she will be much happier, and will be more energetic than she could ever have been with that useless limb. We plan on giving her the best life she possibly can have.
How is she doing? We ended up fostering a dog with the same leg missing as Bogart, with a similar story. Hit by a vehicle at 3 months old. Leg was clearly broken but no care was given to him. They surrendered him to our rescue and he came to us. He was so happy to have the leg gone. I hope your girl is healing well!
@@HeatherElizabetha She is doing great. Very happy, very agile and keeps up with all the others dogs at the dog park. We and Pebbles are lucky to have found each other.
