The Bionic Cat
this could have gone in Medical News too, but given the Merlin thread, I thought it would go better here.
A cat in the UK lost both hind feet in a farm-equipment accident, and has had bionic replacements fitted. They are in two parts, if I'm reading the article correctly -- one part an implant into which the bone and skin grow, and an 'exoprosthesis' socketed into it that replaces the ankle and foot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_a...t/10404251.stm
The procedure is being developed for human amputees.
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LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score, / It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom / Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
~ A. E. Housman
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