They're back, Brrr its a chilly wind.
We adopted Bumps when he was 2-1/2 6 years ago, when he was a puppy he fell down stairs appaently and shattered his elbow, it was taken off t the shoulder. He lived at a cafe in Preston and his owners lease ran out causing them to go back to their respective parents ho wouldnt take him in as well so they advertised him in "Dog World" and we were the only ones to respond.
Living in the cafe he met the customers who, feeling sorry for him fed him sausage rolls, pieces of meat pies, etc... he was 15kg overweight when we had him. Gradually brought his weight down to 24kg now but as he's a thief it's hard to keep it off, he'll steal anything, a whole box, including cardboard & wrappers of After Eights, a packet of 10 disposable antiallergenic latex gloves and so on.
If he had gone to our vet when he did it he would have been left with a stump so that he could have an artificial one, he gets around ok though. Our vet is one of five in the midlands who is more qualified that the TV Bionic Vet.