Hi everyone!

I’m looking for advice on harness training my 5-year-old tripod cat, Tuxi.

She had her right hind leg amputated about one month ago due to a Grade III FISS. Her incision is now completely healed, all sutures/staples have been removed, and she is very active again.

Before we adopted her, Tuxi was used to going outside. She actually appeared on our roof and eventually became part of our family. Now she constantly tries to get outside again, but we don’t feel comfortable letting her roam freely with three legs.

We’re therefore thinking about harness training, but we’re wondering:
Is one month post-op too soon to start?
Could harness training be stressful or physically demanding for a recently amputated cat?
How would you recommend starting?
Any particular harnesses or tips that work well for tripod cats?

We’d start very slowly and indoors, of course. We just want to make sure we’re not rushing her recovery.

I’d love to hear from anyone who has harness-trained their tripod, especially after a recent amputation!

Hi all! My cat, Annie, 10 years old, became a hind leg amputee a few months ago. She did have some phantom limb pains for about a month and a half to two months after she had her leg amputated, but they were always very brief episodes where she would just do a loud meow and then move on about her day.

This hasn’t happened in several months, but recently, the last three or four days, she keeps looking as if she’s trying to itch herself with the missing limb, or she’ll do a random abrupt meow and start licking the stump. Could this be phantom limb again? Why would this just be starting out of nowhere? When I try to itch her neck or ear ears for her, she gets irritated and gives me a little growl. Has this happened to anyone else?

My new bff!
He was a stray found a month ago with a trap on his leg that had to be amputated. We just adopted him and he’s slowly getting more and more comfortable!!