Boone the nine-month-old hound mix walks around with his wheelchair as his back legs are amputated at his owners Tanya and Charles Diable house in Butler twp on Wednesday April 11, 2018.

Boone is a good boy. The 9-month-old hound mix is energetic, affectionate and loves to be petted by his owners, Tanya and Charles Diable.

Boone came to live with the Diables in December, after his former owner in Texas cut off the puppy's back legs.

Today Boone gets around in a temporary wheelchair and rushes around the house in a “scoot bag” that keeps his rear stumps from being rubbed raw by the floor.

Boone joins five other abused dogs the Diables have adopted including Joey, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling retriever who also had both his hind legs cut off when he was 6 weeks old .

But Joey has lent his name to the nonprofit charity the Diables created: Joey's P.A.W. PAW stands for prosthetics and wheelchairs.

A dog prosthetic limb can cost as much as $1,600 and dog wheelchairs can range in price from $300 to $1,200.

She said, “We provide partial or full funds to dogs in need of a prosthetic or a wheelchair. We have an underlying message of the joy of owning a special-needs dog and on our website www.joeyspaw.org we have a adoptable section for dogs that have special needs and are in need of a forever home.”

“I have always thought that animals that are injured, blind, deaf, missing legs are so heartful and unique,” Tanya Diable said.

Read the full story in Sunday's Butler Eagle.