That sounds like the beginning of a joke but it’s not. This is an actual photo of the Turnbull family dog called Mellie who just lost her leg to cancer. Mellie also has her own blog which you can read here. On it, she writes about her missing limb:

I only have three legs.

That’s right, three legs. Late last year, the vet decided it was probably best to remove one of my legs because it had an unusual lump. Since then, I’ve been having treatment to make sure nothing else is lumpy an

d I’m sure you’ll be happy to know, everything is going very well.