Hi - just posted on another thread about my late boy Jaffa who had a front leg amputated aged 10 due to cancer -he coped brill - was told he'll never manage to jump on your bed etc but day after op vet phoned me to say can you collect him, he's being political and wants to go home (they knew him very well) so he came home a day or 2 early complete with chest drain, bounced through dog door and threw himself in the pond and I had to pick him out incase water backfilled his drain, and then hopped through to my bed - the same one that he would never manage to get on again!! Nothing stopped him, no one noticed at first he was an amputee as he was so agile. Its maybe not a decision I would make in the same circumstances for each of my dogs but it was the right one for him and I had another 4.5 years with him under another disease took him...What I did find was as the years went by, his one front leg tended to centre itself underneath him more and his digits in his paw spread a bit, and as his upper arm was removed just leaving the shoulder (which was brilliant as he could roll himself neatly when lying), he had a 'phantom limb' and the shoulder would still move as if the limb was there.
He was incredible and Im sure Grace will be too!!
K
