Astonishing Amputee Cat Gets Two Bionic Feet

[JMcEntegart]

I love my cat, Cujo, but she is just too much the privileged princess to be able to deal with something like this.

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[IncinX]

Sweet, now the cat can play Xbox Kinect too!

 

[RooD]

i would never pay for this for an animal... i love my dog to death but i would give the money to help a human before an animal

 

[IncinX]

Now I would like you to picture this cat playing the ball whack game.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

This is really great progress. I remember reading about this kind of biotechnology a few years ago where they were testing it with people who had lost the tips of their fingers. This really is incredible progress.

 

[long2know]

Very impressive .. I wonder how the prosthetics affect his jumping ability.

 

[Kelavarus]

[citation][nom]RooD[/nom]i would never pay for this for an animal... i love my dog to death but i would give the money to help a human before an animal[/citation]

Can't say I would. I've known more animals who deserve to live than humans. Not to mention this is probably more along the lines of animal testing to eventually be able to do it on humans anyway.

 

[sicpric]

[citation][nom]Kelavarus[/nom]Can't say I would. I've known more animals who deserve to live than humans. Not to mention this is probably more along the lines of animal testing to eventually be able to do it on humans anyway.[/citation]

I do too, but he isn't saying he would spend that money on murderers or rapist. I love animals to death a well, but if I had a cat and it lost two of it's legs, I'd have to put it to sleep, not spend $$$$ on two nubs...

 

[jonpaul37]

[citation][nom]Kelavarus[/nom]Can't say I would. I've known more animals who deserve to live than humans. Not to mention this is probably more along the lines of animal testing to eventually be able to do it on humans anyway.[/citation]

Agreed, this is just paving the way for what can be done to humans... It's funny, we see stuff like this in the movies all the time and as humans, we make it happen.

 

[sliem]

I want to see him jump up and down 4-5 ft with those.

 

[tsnorquist]

All this cat needs is a parrot and an eye patch.

 

[ngom52]

waiting for someone to put a lolcats caption on this

 

[Guest]

So the Combine has stooped to injuring pets, eh? Well Gordon Freeman will give 'em what for in the next episode...

 

[aleh1811]

They could add some fake fur to the implants to make the animal look a bit more armonic.

 

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]RooD[/nom]i would never pay for this for an animal... i love my dog to death but i would give the money to help a human before an animal[/citation]

There's a good chance a large part of the cost was covered because they needed a guinea pig to test this technology on an animal.

 

[binkalette]

[citation][nom]RooD[/nom]i would never pay for this for an animal... i love my dog to death but i would give the money to help a human before an animal[/citation]

I would do this for my dog/cat in a heart beat. You'd have a hard time convincing me to do that for a stranger, there are so many evil people in this world that wouldn't deserve it.

 

[megamanx00]

Pirate Kitteh says

Yar, no cameras

 

[jokemeister]

I think most of us are missing the point. This research may lead to improved prosthetics for humans. It's also likely that it was very easy to get approval to do on the animal but extremely difficult and costly to do on a person. Anyway, it'll make mounting the stuffed cat a lot easier.

 

[gm0n3y]

I've paid over $6000 in vet bills over the past year, but this seems like it would be in the $10k+ range.

 

[KingArcher]

Poor lil' cat