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  • The Backstory
    My dog Lulu was diagnosed with bone cancer in her left hind leg in August of 2006. Within a week her leg was removed and biopsied to show that she had a type of cancer called osteosarcoma. Osteosarcoma is one of the most common bone tumors and it is estimated that at least 6,000 new cases are diagnosed in dogs each year in the United States.

    With her painful leg removed, Lulu's next hurdle was to go through chemo. Luckily dogs are not affected by chemo the way humans are, only feeling drowsy the day of treatment. She received chemo once a day, every 2 weeks for 6 sessions. While this is not a cure, it will delay the cancer's spread, doubling (and possibly tripling) her life span. Without chemo she'd only have 4 to 5 months, with she's already had 16+ months.

    As you can imagine all this was expensive. I spent a grand total of over $10,000. I put everything on my credit cards without thinking twice, but once the bills starting coming in I realized I needed a plan. I asked my awesome friend Eric Siry to design a logo to put on T-Shirts and tote bags. The goal was to eliminate my debt; the dream was to make more than I need in order to help other animals and their owners who cannot afford expensive procedures and treatments. We've reached our dream! But now we're looking to sell even more shirts so we can start handing out checks to those in need. Buy something from the tripod store and show your support for all animals -- four, three, two, and even one-legged!

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December 17, 2007

Tripod Love Turns to Feral Love

While I'll always be a tripod lover, in the past week I've turned my animal love in another direction. I've been knee deep in a trap-neuter-return project in my neighborhood. There's a large colony of feral cats in on a specific street in my area where I've already rescued and adopted out five kittens. Instead of continuing to catch the kittens, I thought it may make more sense to nip the real problem in the butt -- working eggs and sperm! You can read about the entire project here. Check back both on this site and the Bergen Babies site for a new shirt in the works to support feral cat colonies. It's going to be almost as rad as the tripod line!

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Sounds like you're involved in a lot of great projects and this is a lovely and unusual blog.

I've always been inspired by three-legged dogs (this is the first time I've seen the term "tripod" used to describe them), particularly by how quickly they begin running around as if they never had four--without the existential depression that tends to further cripple people beset with crippling ailments.....

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    Lulu and I have been buds for almost 14 years. She's followed me everywhere I've gone (way to be your own woman Lu!) and I've adored spending every minute with her.

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