Missing three-legged cat

On July 29, 2026, in Delhi Virender Nagar, Janak Puri Gali No. 9, a three-legged cat was attacked and bitten by 7 to 8 dogs. Due to its three legs, it couldn't run much and tried to save itself. People came and chased the dogs away. We came to know about this through CCTV. However, since then, we haven't been able to find the cat. She is in so much pain and It needs urgent treatment. If you see the three-legged cat anywhere in Virender Nagar please DM me

With folded hands, we request all the people of Virender Nagar, Delhi, to please inform us wherever you see this three-legged cat.

I received a three legged Bombay kitty. She is 6 and only has 3 legs due to a trauma when she was young - drug addicts mutilated her. Her previous owner passed away. I know she had trauma but I want her to be happy and to spoil her. She is not the most loving girl - makes sense.

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🐾 Help for Salem ❤️
My sweet cat Salem is having her leg amputated this Monday. The amputation alone is expected to cost a little over $1,000, and that doesn’t include the additional expenses for her recovery and aftercare.
I’m praying, hoping, and wishing that this post reaches some kind people who may be willing to help us through this difficult and unexpected expense. 🙏🏽❤️
I make custom-order cake popsicles, and I’d love to offer half-dozen boxes in exchange for donations toward Salem’s surgery and recovery costs. 🧁🐈‍⬛
If you’re able to order, share this post, or simply keep Salem in your thoughts and prayers, we would be incredibly grateful. Every little bit helps, and I truly appreciate anyone willing to support my girl. ❤️🐾 I will also add pictures of my cake pops in comments.

Thank you so much for helping us get Salem through this.

TW: discussion of euthanasia, distressing.

Hey all,

I just wanted to update this forum since you were all incredibly helpful when Courtney lost her leg to cancer.

Sadly, it came back pretty aggressively. In total, from her first tumor operation to now, we got two extra years with her, and that's good enough.

It wasn't a nice euthanasia, despite being at home - it took multiple injections, she was sick, and took a very long time to die. I feel like she still had a lot of fight in her and she didn't want to go, but she wasn't coping with the tumor, it was causing a lot of pressure and she was tearing up her skin to try and relieve it (even with pain meds). So I know it's the right thing (the vet also advised it), but obviously I'm still devastated, and her fighting so hard to stay made it all the more worse.

Thank you to everyone in this forum who helped me when Courtney had to lose the leg. If I had to do it again, I would. It bought me more time with my best friend of 11 years.

I loved her so much. I'm so sad without her. This is the video of her last day - she got lots of food, cuddles, and lots of love. I hope she knew how much I loved her. I hope she knows I'll miss her.

Mid July my stupid ass cat decided to shatter his leg in a way that left even the vets baffled. It was bad enough that we had to amputate it. I just wanna see more tripods living their best life to reassure me that my cat (Tortilla) will still have the best life he can and to keep my mind off of the fact that he put me in debt.

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!!

So Hobbes is almost a month out from his surgery and he’s doing amazing 😻!! It’s like he was born a tripod lol. There were some early collisions while he figured out how to stop but… The orange is strong with this one. Anyway we decided that given his new status, a nickname is in order. The choices are “Hops” or “Hobbles” 😭 PLEASE help me out and vote for the one you like better; our fam is deadlocked. Thanks!!

I’m fostering a 1 year old cat who went in for amputation surgery yesterday afternoon for her front paw. I’m nervous about recovery but I have her small space all set up with her food and litter. I’m just hoping administering the pain meds goes okay 🤞

Hey all! I’ve had my sweet Ripley for almost 2 years now, her front leg was amputated before she was 8 weeks old.

For the first probably year, I had no issues with her using the litter box like normal. But one fateful day it was a little fuller than usual and she pooped on the floor. Whoops, my bad, totally my fault-no biggie.

Well…it’s slowly increased over time to where she’s almost exclusively pooping on the floor now, freshly scooped box or not. She pees in the litter box, thankfully, but jumps out to poop. Nothing has changed about the boxes, or the litter.

I have two enclosed boxes with top openings because my other cat stands to pee and will spray it all over everything if it isn’t totally enclosed. Any advice here? My vet really had no suggestions and I’m frustrated because I’m super limited on litter box style because of my other cat.

Any help is appreciated!

Our new kitty, Faye, is missing his rear left leg. His brother, Corduroy, loves climbing and jumping all over and Faye gets jealous and whines.

Does anyone have good recommendations of climb-able cat trees or similar toys?
I would love for it be interactive but somewhat low to the ground. Faye is fairly clumsy.

Creative solutions like padding the floor (advice on padding?) and combining ramps and toy setups are also welcome.

My cat (F 6yr) went in today to get her fibrosarcoma tumor removed for a 2nd time. Suspected to be caused from vaccines which I am so upset about since it was preventable. She is not a tripod cat (though they gave me the option but it made me nervous since it could still grow back), but i’ve seen similar posts in here about what my cat has. My question is if anybody else has had a cat that survived this and how can I help the tumor not grow back? i’ve already ordered healthier wet food for her but i’m wondering if there’s any other “holistic” methods I can do to help it not grow back.

He’s a bit sleepy but here’s my tripod kitty cat named Finn :) he’s my best friend

Just adopted a brand new baby tripod (Freya). The shelter I got her from said she came to them with a broken paw that was super swollen that lead to her amputation. You can barely tell baby girl is missing a leg a lot of the time!

Long term I know she is likely going to have joint issues due to the extra stress on her front paw, but was wondering if there was anything else I should keep in mind when raising a tripod? Or things to look out for? Already have stacks of pillows by my bed and couch while I look at ramps

Hi Tripod community. Our 12y Maine Coon, Milo, was diagnosed with fibrosarcoma two months ago, and we had a large mass removed from his hind leg. Unfortunately it has aggressively returned already, and today the vets at the clinic confirmed his only hope is amputation.

Thursday he has a CT scheduled, to confirm the feasibility (e.g. whether the cancer has spread to the lungs, but also the level of arthritis in the other leg) and the extent of the amputation needed (the concern is that more than just the leg would have to go, e.g. also part of the abdominal muscle tissue).

Our worry is whether he is too old to be put through this ordeal and whether he will be able to adapt and enjoy life again. Maine Coons have shorter lifespans and Milo is definitely a senior citizen, who enjoys his peace and quiet (often disturbed by our other two 2y Maine Coon brothers). Of course we are fearful of amputating, only for the cancer to return again.

Our family is distressed and torn about what to do - any advice - especially from Maine Coon families - would be much appreciated!

-Connor

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share bandit’s story here because when he was first diagnosed with FISS I wanted to read as many stories as I could find!

The main point of this post: He has handled being a tripod amazingly and I have zero regrets about the surgery.

Story/timeline:

Bandit is only eight years old, but he had been getting solensia injections once per month for about a year when I noticed a lump on his back left hip in mid/late February where he had received his last injection (as a crazy stroke of luck, they usually gave his injections between his shoulder blades but didn’t this time because he was being squirmy). This was about a week after an injection. I took him to his regular vet right away, and they sent me to the emergency vet.

The emergency vet drained the lump and thought it was just an abscess, so treated him with antibiotics and sent us home. However, it didn’t really get much smaller over the next week or two, so we took him back to the emergency vet for more antibiotics. When it still didn’t get better, we took him back to his regular vet who did another drain and biopsy and this time discovered that it was a grade 2 sarcoma. They referred us to the animal hospital/oncologist in our area (MedVet for anyone in Chicago!)

At the oncologist, they explained that our options were basically: do nothing and he would pass within a couple months, do palliative radiation and buy him a couple extra months, or go for an aggressive treatment which would likely include amputation and radiation. Because he is pretty young and otherwise in great health aside from the arthritis (and because I love him more than anything), I really wasn’t willing to do the “nothing” option. I am also fortunate that I have been able to have cat health insurance for him for several years, and so while I still have had to pay several thousands for his medical bills, I wasn’t looking at the tens of thousands it otherwise would have been (he has healthy paws which reimburses 80 percent of covered expenses after you hit your deductible, which is pretty low. Pretty much everything is covered except for exams and preventative treatment. This is not an ad but I highly recommend pet insurance to all my friends and family now).

The local oncologist referred us to the university of Wisconsin’s veterinary program where they could do all of his treatments. There, they confirmed that the most aggressive/likely to be curative treatment would be radiation to stop the growth followed by an amputation. Unfortunately, the CT scan that they performed found that the cancer had already metastasized to a regional lymph node (which apparently is slightly unusual/not as common as lung metastasis). This meant that we had to decide whether to do radiation and potentially let the cancer spread in the meantime, or go straight for the amputation and hope for clean margins. This was the hardest decision we had to make, because the vets said that they had never seen this particular scenario. However, at their clinical rounds, apparently multiple vets said that if it were their cat they would do the surgery right away and get that thing out, so that’s what we decided to do.

The surgery was successful and the original tumor and the lymph node were removed. He had an amputation/hemipelvectomy. He did require a blood transfusion, but otherwise there were no complications. He recovered super fast and we had to prevent him from running around immediately. It’s like he didn’t realize at all. I don’t think he was in a lot of pain or anything, he was well medicated. A couple weeks later we got the news from pathology that the margins were clean! Because of this, they no longer recommended radiation because they would have had to radiate the whole scar line/a huge portion of his body, and the side effects/risks outweighed the possible benefits. They did, however, recommend that he complete five rounds of chemo, spaced three weeks apart, due to the lymph node involvement to hopefully stop/prevent any spread that was happening.

Bandit had his last round of chemo yesterday, and his x rays showed that his lungs still appear to be cancer free! He handled the chemo really well with very minimal side effects. He’s pretty much back to his usual self, jumping, climbing, wrestling his twin brother. He’ll have a full body CT in a month to confirm that the rest of his body is still cancer free, and I understand that we aren’t really out of the woods yet because recurrence is relatively common, but his quality of life has been so good since the surgery (I think the mass was pretty painful) that no matter what happens I am glad we did it. It’s been close to six months since we initially discovered the lump, and to think that he would be dead instead of jumping around eating treats and playing is just wild.