One of my dogs is a three-legged lab. The original owner backed his car over him when he was about three months old and then dropped him at the vet to be euthanized. The vet tech called my daughters to see if we could provide round the clock nursing care if they amputated his front leg. We said we would and the vet paid for the amputation and repairing the other front leg. He was such a wonderful dog that we kept him. He was the only thing my ex and I couldn't agree on when we divorced. She got custody, but Trooper didn't like her new husband and she gave him to me. She still drives 250 miles to come visit him.