3 Legged Cat
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My cat broke his back left leg yesterday and has had an operation today to amputate the leg as he's getting old (He's 17) and they weren't clean breaks. My question is have any of you had a cat with only 3 legs and how did they cope with it when they came home?
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he copes okay, his walking isnt the best but can run fine! albeit sideways.
IVe seen other cats be fine missing a leg!
Three-legged cats usually do very well, fingers crossed your cat does.
Yes, Helen The Tripod of Evilness has been sans one of the front legs for 15 years.:D She is just fine. Only thing it stops her doing is catching mice etc as she can't pounce without falling over.:D
She can jump the same as she could with 4 legs, and she basically always acted like there was nothing different. I suspect she thinks the leg is still there as when she does that 'pummelling' thing happy cats do, you can see her moving the 'stump' of the long lost leg.
She coped very well (lost it when run over by some thugs). When she came home, she just acted like nothing had happened. They do adapt well.
ETA: My son just reminded me to say the vet told us that we had to watch her weight as there's more strain on the heart with the 3 remaining legs taking all the strain. Not sure how true that is but we have never let her get fat. She's still an outdoors cat and terrorises all the cats round here - even those twice her size and with a full set of legs.;)
That's hopefully a good thing, he had a habit of getting up an 8 foot fence and refusing to come down! Knowing his tenacity he'll still find a way to do it.:rolleyes:
She was rushed to the vet who cleaned it up and told us that Mossy had chewed off her leg to escape some sort of trap - probably a mole trap on the fields behid our house.
Despite her terrible ordeal, she recovered well and lived to 18. She seemed to take it in her stride (sorry) and was able to run and jump almost as well as ever.