A bit of advice.
If you start dating someone, and that someone might be a pet lover who has a three legged (or God forbid less limbed animal) consider all your options.
That somone has chosen to continue that pet’s life despite after an incident that usually involves significant injury or illness. That somone is more than an animal lover. 
That someone’s connection to their pet is closer, and you may be moving in on that pet’s territory. My experience in that kind of a love triangle had it’s share of mess. And, while one of you may find it amusing that the animal has three legs, the pet owner, your special someone, probably will find their pet’s handicap an endearing neediness that they feel endebeted to fixing with lots of T.L.C. that will not be shared.
This is just a warning to take in to consideration from someone who’s been in the trenches against a three legged cat. He sure knew how to eek out every last to those nine lives…
At any rate, if you like tripods, support these folks, hopefully you’ll see more action than I did. They have t-shirts too.
7 responses so far ↓
1 overview by Hennessy (on reddit.com) // Apr 21, 2007 at 11:36 pm
2 J.Jerry // Apr 23, 2007 at 10:25 am
Thanks for the advise. I was going to search for a 3 legged pet, but now having read your article, I think I’ll stick with 4 legs.
Has there been any documentation of a domestic pet with more than 4 legs?
3 toni k. // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I can relate to this article because I have been called a tri-pod also. I only have two legs though…
4 toni k. // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Great article
– I really like the original pieces
5 Hennessy // Apr 24, 2007 at 9:50 am
Yes, there is documentation of pet with more than 4 legs.
Take a look here: http://oddanimals.com/deformedanimals/eightleggedcat.html
I have no experience with those myself, so I could only guess that the pet owner might react the same way as the significant other I described.
I would try to endlessly play fetch with the cat. Or maybe see if it could learn how to play a musical instrument of some sort.
6 J.Jerry // Apr 24, 2007 at 10:45 am
Great job tracking down that 8 legged cat. My bet is that it would have no troubles catching a mouse.
7 kayla // Jan 17, 2008 at 2:10 am
i have a three legged cat, a turtleshell tabby i think. she is very affectionate ,adult and we call her tripod she also has myloma in her nose but that doesnt stop me loving her very much… there isnt very much difference… i think three legged creatures are the most affectionate of them all
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