pepper

Yay! I am so excited!!! For the first time since I had my leg amputated, i am going camping for the weekend. We are leaving tomorrow. It’s gonna be so much fun. I am going to go hiking with my momma and best friend Tiny, and im getting a brand new harness. I out grew mine. i hope my momma gets one that will match me. she also has a cute bandana she is going to draw on for me. To show others that even though im a tripawd, i am still very loved. my momma is going to take lots of pictures of me and she will post some on here for me. that way everyone can see how happy and healthy i am now :).

so to shorten a long story for the new people on here, i am a small dog named pepper and about 6 months ago i got hit by a car and had to have my back left leg removed. it has been a very good 6 months i am completely recovered. i am a normal dog now and i am as happy as can be 🙂 my momma is the best. she has taken very good care of me. so i decided to be her bodyguard and i don’t let anyone hurt her. 🙂 the only time i notice i don’t have a leg is when i get really itchy on my left side. thankfully my momma is here and she scratches for me. i am just so happy and playful now. sadly, though i lost my playmate, zoey, about a month ago :(. she was ran over by accident by her momma, my momma’s grandma, so my momma went outside and picked her up and moved her out of the road. after that my momma’s brother put her down under a shaded area so when zoey’s momma drove by she wouldn’t have to see her. later that evening after Zoey’s daddy got back from work he got picked her up and dug her a grave out in his garden where me and zoey loved to run and he buried her with her favorite tennis ball so she could play with it in doggy heaven. we were all upset. Zoey was a very fun playmate. even after i lost my leg i could still keep up with her and play with her. i miss her very much. so even now a month later i still go to visit where my momma laid her, where my momma’s brother laid her and to where she is buried. i still have my brother, tiny, and i have 2 new additions to my family, well officially anyway. they are both cats. one is shorty who i am always having to compete against to win momma’s affection and boomer. shorty’s brother whom no one wanted. he always ends up in momma’s lap while me and shorty are to busy competing. well that is all for now. i will try to keep updating my story at least once a month. i may be a little dog but i have a lot to say 🙂

well i am about to get the rest of my stitches out. the vet never set a date for us to come back so my momma carefully pulled most of them out. it didnt hurt. it actually feels better now. the stitches were starting to settle in my skin. i can jump on my momma’s bed now, but i kinda like being pampered and spoiled so i pretend to not be able to jump on the bed so they will pick me up. hehe. i have learned a new command. scratchy scratchy. actually, if momma says that and my left side itches then i will let her scratch for me. she calls it scratchy scratchy. i keep forgetting about my leg being gone and i try to scratch my left side by myself. it doesnt really work out. im so glad momma will scratch for me. im not so afraid of people anymore. i dont bark or try to attack them. i really love my momma. i want to cuddle with her but she wont quit moving around and it still scares me so i lay my head on her foot. i get to play with my best friend zoey now. i wasnt able to catch up to her before but now im slower. she gets me motivated to run faster. i have learned to roll when i turn left. its better than slowing down. well thats about it. life is a lot easier than i thought it would be. i am doing better than great. momma finally found her camera cord so here soon i will have pics up of me as a tripawd.

i am loving life right now. momma is so proud of me. i have learned that life without her, is impossible.  i mean, who else is gonna help me up on the bed when my buddy tiny is up there? and who is gonna run outside with me? i trust her a lot more since this has happened. i can run very fast now. and i can jump to catch bugs! i only fell over once and then after that i got the hang of it. momma said since im doing so well, she is gonna let me visit the love of my life, Zoey. that is our neighbors dog and since she is to hyper she gets put in the back yard a lot but tomorrow they are gonna let her out. its gonna be the first time in a long time that i get to play with her. im super excited. hopefully in the very near future ill be able to jump in the pool. the pool i have now is a little bit bigger than my other one and i will have to jump over the side to get in but i know i will be able to do it. im glad i mastered the stairs within the first three days. i dont like it when momma carries me up and down stairs. soon ill be able to jump on the bed with not problems at all. i love life as a tripawd. most the time i forget that i am one. tiny has to. i can play with him now. he is happy about that.

first i would like to say it was not my fault, okay maybe a little, okay fine it was but still. me and tiny were just hanging out outside because today has been a great day. well we looked up and saw someone walking down the road. tiny barked so i just had to bark to. then i decided to go under the gate and get closer because i thought for sure he was a bad guy. i got closer and closer until i went up to the road. i know i know its dumb to do that but i couldnt help it! i dont want anyone near my home that my momma doesnt approve of. she wasnt to mad then because i didnt go in the road just real close. like one more paw step away close. she got furious when she took me and tiny on a walk. i love walking and no matter what my momma said, i decided that i would just go where ever i wanted. she had tiny on a leash so i couldnt go to far. and just as we were heading back home, i saw my best friends across the road. i know i shouldnt have but i crossed the road this time. i guess you could also say i crossed the line to.  finally i decided that i should just cross back over and take the scolding. she was not happy at all. she wasnt mad for long though. becuase i pulled out the old puppy face trick and i walked up to her with my ears down and my tail down but wagging.  after that we had a pretty great day. momma was proud of me. she and i ran around together playing for a little bit. i ran really fast. and for it only being a week momma thought that it was pretty good of me to be running. i even jumped up and skipped on stair when i was going in to the house. i got lots of love and treats after that. my stitches arent bleeding or anything and they havent opened up anymore. so my momma’s momma said we will see what happens. they are working really hard now to get a fence put up. after that we are gonna have another play mate. probably another boxer. tiny gets along better with boxers. i have learned a lot from being a tripawd. i learned that my momma will not hurt me so now i let her pet me more. i actually like it, never thought i would.

well the dumb vet didn’t stitch my leg up right…the stitches are coming out! momma is all kinds of mad. she has been saying the stitching looks weird because there are bubbled up looking parts and skin was sticking up from the stitching. now i will have to have the cut cleaned and restitched. i have been a good boy and i have NOT been biting at them at all. it was already messed up since the first day. it just got even worse today. momma said that if they make her pay for them to fix their mistakes she’s gonna threatened to sue them. now i know that most vets are busy but still, they didnt have to do such a bad job on the stitching…arent they supposed to care about the animals and try to keep us from hurting? grrrr i just wanna bite them!!!!

i am feeling much better today. i woke up this morning and had to go to the bathroom really bad.  so i whined and momma took me out. after that i wanted to go lay with tiny instead of in the cage all alone. i can walk now very easily. and i climbed the stairs all by myself! i was scared at first but i didn’t want to be outside alone so i climbed up the stairs. next week momma says i can try climbing down the stairs. the only thing i hate is that she still gives me medicine. i dont like it. it tastes gross. i know i should take it though. momma says she is so proud of me and she is shocked at how fast im getting over my injury. what can i say, im just not the type of dog to lay around all day. i wanna go go go!

it has been awful for me. momma gives me asprin and is giving me my antibiotics but im still in pain. i am managing to get up and down to lay in different spots in my cage though. i wish i could go outside and run but i know i won’t be doing that anytime soon. it also helps when my best friend (tiny) comes in the room and lays next to the cage. momma is helping me get used to having three legs. its really hard. im kinda scared to walk and i know she won’t let me fall but still i just can’t help but drag my back leg and just use my front legs. she holds me up with a sling type thing and her hand. she even helps me down the stairs. i just wish she would also make her cats stay out of my water. they reach their dirty paws through my cage and put them in my water. makes me so mad and they know i cant get up to make them stop.