A newborn piglet named
Chris P. Bacon, who was born without the use of his hind legs, is learning to
walk with the use of a toy wheelchair.
A newborn piglet named Chris P.
Bacon, who was born without the use of his hind legs, is learning to walk
thanks to the help of a wheelchair made out of toy parts.
A young woman brought the piglet to
a Florida veterinarian with the intention of putting him down. She didn’t know
what kind of life he would have if he couldn’t walk.
However, the vet had a proposal for
her.
Dr. Len Lucero, a veterinarian at
Eastside Veterinary Hospital in Clermont, Fla., told the woman that if she
surrendered the animal to him, he would make sure he would keep the piglet
alive as long as he could.
The vet took the piglet home and his
family played with him. Later, while his family was sleeping, Lucero gathered
some toy parts and constructed a wheelchair made out of the parts.
The wheelchair is made of K’Nex, a
children's toy similar to Lego.
What Lucero saw was worthy of a
video, he decided. Lucero named the piglet Chris. P. Bacon.
Chris P. Bacon didn’t like the
wheelchair at first, but he seemed to adjust to it later, by the looks of the
YouTube video.
The video, meanwhile, is charming
thousands of people as the adorable piglet is showing himself to be quite the
ham.
The piglet, 10 days old at the time,
walks around the vet’s home making little piglet noises while scooping food off
the carpet and drinking from a hand-held milk bottle.
Since the video was posted Jan. 26,
it has generated more than 100,000 views.
If there is one complaint that
viewers have, however, is that the wheels seem too light for Chris.
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