Three-legged dog with a four-legged heart

I thought I'd give a little picture update on Rosie's amputation .  Here's my pretty girl, two months after having her leg lopped off.  She looks like she's sleeping, but really she's closing her eyes while cleaning the area.  She wasn't too keen on me taking pictures of her bath time, to tell the truth. 

So, after a promising post-op, a rocky adjustment to having no leg (she got very lethargic and anti-social for a time), she's bounced back and become our old Rosie, albeit a little less smooth-gaited.  She's still full of piss and vinegar, though.  Just ask the possum she found on our compost pile the other night.  I had to shoo her away from him after she'd chased him up our back fence. 

Here's another photo of the site itself.  The hair has grown back, but that top layer isn't complete.  Around the site of the sutures, it's sort of brown and tufty.   She tends to lie on that side, which would make sense - there's nothing to get in the way of the pillow there.   The brown pillow is her dog bed, for which I sewed a new brown fleece cover right after her surgery so she'd have a bit of extra softness to lay about on.  

We're so glad we still have our Poochie with a Heart of Gold.  And that she's back to her old self! 

tags: dogs  amputation  leg