Game on, tortoises — bunny Ethel gets wheels
A British rabbit whose lost her hop is now getting around on a set of wheels made in Texas. The four-year-old rabbit, Ethel, lost the use of her back legs after coming down with a mystery illness. Vets...
View ArticleKitty, the dog that keeps on pulling
David Love was bedridden — going through a particularly ugly spell in his bout with liver cancer — when he agreed to babysit a friend’s dog, a pit bull mix named Kitty. The first thing Kitty did was...
View ArticleDisabled vet seeks a new chickapoo
Seventy-one-year-old Paul Franklin Hudson Sr. got around Pocomoke City in a motorized wheelchair, often with his small dog, Foxy, a three-year-old “chickapoo,” riding in his lap. On a Saturday earlier...
View ArticleAgency files lawsuit seeking to “repossess” handicapped priest’s retired...
A Pennsylvania service dog agency is suing an Episcopal priest with cerebral palsy to force her to give up the service dog she has had since 2007. So reports the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The...
View ArticleHow man and his dog cope with high waters
Watch this grainy video closely and you’ll see what appears to be a dog pushing a man in a wheelchair through flood waters in what we guess is Russia. No information is included with the video, posted...
View ArticleAnderson Pooper, dachshund on wheels
She didn’t win the race, but a disabled dachshund named “Anderson Pooper” was the clear crowd favorite at the annual Wiener Dog Races at Emerald Downs in Washington state. Partly paralyzed, Anderson...
View ArticleSmiles bloom when River rolls through town
Here’s a sweet little story out of Albany, Minnesota, where a dog named River — described as part pointer, part “Walmart greeter” — serves as both friend and inspiration to many in the small town....
View ArticleCharges dropped against veteran in Georgia who broke car window to save dog
Authorities have dropped the charges filed against a veteran who was arrested after breaking a window to save a dog left inside a hot car in a shopping center parking lot. Michael Hammons, 46, an Iraq...
View ArticleTrying to save his dog, man in wheelchair is killed by train in California
A man in a wheelchair who witnesses say was trying to save his dog was struck by a train and killed Friday. Jim Boswell, an amputee who lived at a mobile home park in Wheatland, Calif., was said to be...
View ArticleOwners surrender dog at Florida shelter, then take her wheelchair home with them
When I hear about someone surrendering their dog at an animal shelter, I do my best — though it’s not always easy — to withhold judgment. Maybe that person or family is facing some hard economic times....
View ArticleParaplegic employee quits after Baltimore hospital says he can’t bring his...
Before the well-known Baltimore institute hired him as an employee, Marshall Garber had been a patient at, supporter of and spokesman for Kennedy Krieger’s International Center for Spinal Cord Injury....
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