Tortoise Gets Chair Wheel Prosthesis to Replace Missing Leg

[MrsJrotax101]

Tortoise Gets Chair Wheel Prosthesis to Replace Missing Leg



Thankfully someone had the common sense to glue a wheel from a rolling office chair to our 12-year-old African tortoise-friend's missing leg, instead of going down the popular route of making tortoise soup out of him. Suffering tissue damage on his front-left leg, Gamera went through an amputation, which would leave any man distressed.

Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine had the bright idea of attaching a swivelling office chair wheel to his shell with adhesive however, and while his crawling isn't as smooth as his old style, he at least looks happy.

Article from: http://gizmodo.com/5823445/tortoise-finds-new-wheels-after-a-chair-wheel-is-glued-to-his-missing-leg

 

[KennyGS]

He gets around pretty well.

 

[LizBot]

How strong was the adhesive...Don't tortoises swim?

 

[MrsJrotax101]

That's a land tortoise
Red ear slider turtles are water

I believe.

 

[MrsJrotax101]

Tortoises (Testudinidae) are a family of land-dwelling reptiles of the order of turtles (Testudines). Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise

 

[Nomar06]

They see me rollin'...

 

[MrsJrotax101]

That was just PERFECT nomar

 

[dentrecords]

Wow. That's all I can say.

 

[MrsJrotax101]

Just found a pic