Plus: AWWWW.
1.) Tzvika is an injured female turtle. She suffered severe damage
to her shell when she was run over with a lawnmower and needs help with
walking. But now, she can walk with the aid of her newly attached
wheels.
2.) This French bulldog Billy cannot use his hind legs. They have
been paralyzed since birth. But, he ran for the first time on recently
with the help of his newly built “roll car.”
3.) Chris P. Bacon was born without the use of his hind legs. Last
month, the pig’s owner turned the piglet over to a Clermont, Florida,
vet who decided to help him out. Now, he has his own little wheelchair
and he couldn’t be happier about it.
4.) This 7 year-old disabled cat is named Cici. She was hit in a
traffic accident and is now paralyzed because of it. Now, she can walk
and even compete in cat shows thanks to her custom walker.
5.) Oscar had his hind legs severed by a combine harvester, doesn’t
even have to use a wheelchair to get around. The spunky 2 year-old cat
can walk again after being fitted with prosthetic limbs in a world-first
operation.
6.) This 48 year-old female elephant named Motala can walk thanks to
her newly attached prosthetic leg at the Elephant Hospital in Lampang
province, north of Bangkok. She stepped on a landmine 10 years ago but
now she can finally walk normally again.
7.) This female bottlenose dolphin “Fuji”, estimated to be 37
years-old, lost 75 percent of her tail fluke due to an unknown disease
in 2002. She was in serious trouble, but now the dolphin can swim and
jump using the artificial tail fluke, which is believed to be the
world’s first artificial fin for a dolphin.
8.) A dog named Pay de Limon (Lemon Pay) can run thanks to being
fitted with two front prosthetic legs. Members of a drug gang in the
Mexican state of Zacatecas chopped off Limon’s paws to practice cutting
fingers off kidnapped people, a terrible atrocity.
9.) This is Naki’o, a mixed-breed dog who can walk on four
prosthetic devices. He lost all four paws to frostbite when he was
abandoned as a puppy in a foreclosed home. He isn’t abandoned or unloved
anymore.
10.) This Yorkshire Terrier named Hope shows off her uni-wheel
attached to a doggie vest. She is missing one limb, but with the help of
this wheel she can get around just fine.
11.) Yu the 25 year-old female loggerhead turtle washed up in a
fishing net years ago. Her front flippers were shredded after an
encounter with a shark. Now, she has gone through 27 different pairs of
prosthetic flippers that allow her to swim happily and naturally.
12.) Hoppa, a 4 year-old mixed breed dog born without front legs,
can use a prosthetic device to walk outside. An animal-loving art
student created the device for Hoppa, and hopes his wheeling device will
improve the lives of pets born with abnormalities or with amputated
limbs.
13.) Snow is a former stray dog who had to have one of her right
feet amputated. Now, thanks to OrthoPets, she has a brand-new artificial
leg.
Animals naturally know that they need their limbs to hunt and survive, but even at that, these happy creatures don’t know they are any different. Instead, they’re as happy as their “normal” comrades.