Thanks to the ingenuity of his owners, disabled piglet Chris P. Bacon, who was born without the use of his hind legs, is able to walk with the help of a set of back wheels fashioned from K’Nex. Yup, you read correctly, his wheels are made out of K’Nex, those articulated building sets that were all over YTV in the ’90s. He was brought into the veterinary clinic of Dr. Len Lecuro in Florida at one day old, where his owner brought him in to see if there was an alternative to euthanization. He got the idea for the wheelchair when he went home and saw some of his son’s K’nex lying around, and thought he might be able to fashion something out of it. Chris wasn’t super into the device the first time they put it on, but as you can tell from the video he got used to it pretty quickly! The video first went up on January 26th, and has almost 100,000 views. The piglet has been donated a wheelchair by Walkin’ Wheels, an organization that helps disabled pets, but it will be a little while until he grows into it.
[Via National Geographic]
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Megan Patterson is the Science and Technology Editor at Paper Droids and currently a Toronto Standard intern. She has also written for WORN Fashion Journal, Elevate, and Salon Magazines. She also tweets more than is healthy or wise.
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