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How Prosthetic Devices Are Giving Animals a New Life

Hoppa, a four-year-old mixed breed dog born without front legs, uses aprosthetic device 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.

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Martin Kaufmann, owner and founder of OrthoPets, looks over a former straydog named Snow who had to have a right foot amputated to prepare for her

artificial leg and foot in Denver February 20, 2013. OrthoPets createsprosthetics for animals

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A Yorkshire Terrier named Hope shows off her uni-wheel attached to a doggievest in Longmont, Colorado April 21, 2013. Hope is missing one limb and is

able to walk with the wheel attachment

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A 25-year-old female loggerhead turtle named Yu swims after receiving her27th 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 flippersshredded after a brutal encounter with a shark. Now keepers at an aquarium inthe western Japanese city of Kobe are fighting to find a high-tech solution thatwill allow the 25-year-old turtle to swim again, with years of labours and 27

models of prosthetic fins behind them without success.

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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 southernJapanese 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 byveterinarians and Japan's largest tire maker Bridgestone Co., an aquarium official said.

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Oscar the cat, which had its hind legs severed by a combine harvester, stands inthis undated handout. Two-year-old Oscar can walk again after being fitted withprosthetic limbs in a world-first operation. Oscar was given a pair of artificiallimbs by veterinary surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick, using a technique developed by a

University College London team.

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A 48-year-old female elephant named Motala walks on her newly attached

prosthetic leg at theElephant Hospitalin 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.

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A seven-year-old disabled cat named Cici is helped to walk by a device as sheparticipates in Cat Show 2002 in the western Turkish city of Izmir, December

29, 2002. Cici was disabled in a traffic accident two months prior.

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Tzvika, an injured female turtle, walks with the aid of her newly attachedwheels 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 andsuffered 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, elevatethe turtle to keep the shell from being worn down and enable her to walk.

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Marco van den Boom installs a wheel of a medical roll car for French bulldogBilly 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.

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Chris P. Bacon, pictured February 12, 2013, at Eastside Veterinary Hospital inClermont, Florida, was born without the use of his hind legs. Last month, thepig's owner turned the piglet over to a Clermont vet who decided to help thelittle guy. Dr. Len Lucero took the pig home and made a wheelchair for him

using toy parts.