Hoppa, a four-year-old mixed breed dog born without
front legs, uses a prosthetic device to walk outside in the central
Israeli city of Tel Aviv February 28, 2010. The device was invented
especially for Hoppa by a animal-loving art student, who hopes his
wheeling device will improve the lives of pets born with abnormalities
or with amputated limbs. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)
Martin Kaufmann, owner and founder of OrthoPets,
looks over a former stray dog named Snow who had to have a right foot
amputated to prepare for her artificial leg and foot in Denver February
20, 2013. OrthoPets creates prosthetics for animals. (Photo by Rick
Wilking/Reuters)
Naki'o, a mixed-breed dog with four prosthetic
devices, goes for a run in Colorado Springs April 12, 2013. Naki'o lost
all four feet to frostbite when he was abandoned as a puppy in a
foreclosed home. (Photo by Rick Wilking/Reuters)
A Yorkshire Terrier named Hope shows off her
uni-wheel attached to a doggie vest in Longmont, Colorado April 21,
2013. Hope is missing one limb and is able to walk with the wheel
attachment. (Photo by Rick Wilking/Reuters)
A 25-year-old female loggerhead turtle named Yu
swims after receiving her 27th pair of prosthetic flippers at the Suma
Aqualife Park in Kobe, western Japan February 11, 2013. Life looked grim
for Yu, a loggerhead turtle, when she washed up in a Japanese fishing
net five years ago, her front flippers shredded after a brutal encounter
with a shark. Now keepers at an aquarium in the western Japanese city
of Kobe are fighting to find a high-tech solution that will allow the
25-year-old turtle to swim again, with years of labours and 27 models of
prosthetic fins behind them without success. (Photo by Reuters/Suma
Aqualife Park)
A keeper holds an artificial tail fluke attached
to female bottlenose dolphin “Fuji”, estimated to be 37-years-old, at
Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobu town on the southern Japanese island
of Okinawa February 14, 2007. Fuji lost 75 percent of her tail fluke
due to an unknown disease in 2002. 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, and was developed by veterinarians and
Japan's largest tire maker Bridgestone Co., an aquarium official said.
(Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)
A dog named Pay de Limon (Lemon Pay) runs fitted
with two front prosthetic legs at Milagros Caninos rescue shelter in
Mexico City August 29, 2012. Members of a drug gang in the Mexican state
of Zacatecas chopped off Limon's paws to practise cutting fingers off
kidnapped people, according to Milagros Caninos founder Patricia Ruiz.
Fresnillo residents found Limon in a dumpster bleeding and legless.
After administering first aid procedures, they managed to take him to
Milagros Caninos, an association that rehabilitates dogs that have
suffered extreme abuse. The prosthetic limbs were made at OrthoPets in
Denver, U.S., after the shelter was able to raise over $6,000. (Photo by
Tomas Bravo/Reuters)
Oscar the cat, which had its hind legs severed by a
combine harvester, stands in this undated handout. Two-year-old Oscar
can walk again after being fitted with prosthetic limbs in a world-first
operation. Oscar was given a pair of artificial limbs by veterinary
surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick, using a technique developed by a University
College London team. (Photo by Reuters/Handout)
A 48-year-old female elephant named Motala walks on her newly attached prosthetic leg at the Elephant Hospital
in Lampang province, north of Bangkok August 16, 2009. Motala's front
left leg was maimed after she stepped on a landmine at the Myanmar-Thai
border 10 years ago. (Photo by Phichaiyong Mayerku/Reuters)
A seven-year-old disabled cat named Cici is helped
to walk by a device as she participates in “Cat Show 2002” in the
western Turkish city of Izmir, December 29, 2002. Cici was disabled in a
traffic accident two months prior. (Photo by Reuters)
Tzvika, an injured female turtle, walks with the
aid of her newly attached wheels at the Wildlife Hospital in the Ramat
Gan Safari near Tel Aviv January 5, 2011. About two months ago, Tzvika
was run over by a lawn mower and suffered severe damage to her shell,
and a spinal injury that affected her ability to use her rear limbs. The
wheels, attached by veterinarians at the safari, elevate the turtle to
keep the shell from being worn down and enable her to walk. (Photo by
Nir Elias/Reuters)
Marco van den Boom installs a wheel of a medical
roll car for French bulldog Billy at the headquarters of 'Rehatechnik
fuer Tiere' (medical engineering for animals) in the western town of
Witten November 9, 2012. Four-year old Billy, whose hind legs are
paralyzed since birth, ran for the first time on Friday with the aid of
the roll car. “Rehatechnik fuer Tiere” owner Marco van den Boom, custom
builds a range of roll cars for disabled or infirm dogs and animals, to
help aid their mobility or paralysis needs. (Photo by Ina
Fassbender/Reuters)
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