When cancer or injury strikes your pet, you may have no choice but to make the tough call to amputate a limb. And if you do, there are myriad resources available to you when it comes to caring for your post-op pet.

Just because your four-legged friend has become three-legged doesn’t mean they’re any less spunky and adorable. In fact, thousands of people are showing off their adorable tripawds (Get it? Tripod. Tripawd.) all over social media.

These 55 cats and dogs will show you that there’s life after major pet surgery and that animals are capable of rebounding and adapting to even the most catastrophic injuries and illnesses.