Saturday, October 20th, was five years since we brought Duke home. The memory showed up on Facebook, along with the first pictures we took of Duke, back when he still had four legs.
It’s actually a little weird seeing pictures of him with all four legs. He gets around extremely well, and just doesn’t seem to be lacking in any way. Well, possibly manners, but certainly nothing he needs to live a full and happy life.
We had Duke for about six months before his leg was amputated; long enough for him to get through the heart worm treatment, and become healthy enough for the surgery. It was also long enough for us to become too attached to ever give him up, so he became the second in a long line of foster failures.
Duke recovered quickly from the amputation, and gets around much better than he did before it, as you can probably tell from this picture of him at the Walk to End Alzheimer’s last month.
Love this story, Danielle! How could you not keep that adorable looking pup?
ReplyDeleteYAY for you! Taking Duke in and helping him to mend and get healthy...and for loving him. You are awesome.
ReplyDeleteIts amazing how they adapt, isn't it? Such a sweet looking dog! I know our dog when he went blind, we hadn't even realized it as it happened so gradually and he just adapted to it. Of course once we knew for sure, then we didn't move around anything.
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Good to know he's adjusted so well to having only three legs. As Betty says, dogs are very adaptable.
ReplyDeleteI bet that bum leg was giving him more trouble getting around. (I actually read a book not too long ago where the MC had a dog with three legs. That dog got around just fine, too.)
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