{"id":26796,"date":"2015-10-01T17:37:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petspyjamas.com\/blog\/?p=26796"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:07:32","slug":"two-legged-kitten-walks-with-help-of-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petspyjamas.com\/blog\/two-legged-kitten-walks-with-help-of-wheelchair\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-legged kitten walks with help of wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"

After losing his back legs shortly after birth \u2013 two-legged kitten<\/a> Cassidy, spent the first nine weeks of his life living alone in a forest searching for food and water.<\/p>\n

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Luckily the tiny kitten was found and brought to the TinyKittens Society, however he was in very bad shape.<\/p>\n

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Cassidy \u2013 who was named after fictional cowboy Hopalong Cassidy \u2013 was emaciated having nearly starved to death and had a septic E. coli infection in both of his stumps.<\/p>\n

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Shelly Roche, owner of TinyKittens said, \u201cHe needed meds, fluids and syringe feeding every few hours around the clock for the first week. I had to learn how to manually express his bladder because he couldn\u2019t go to the bathroom by himself for the first few days. He pees like a champ now, though!\u201d<\/p>\n

Over three weeks later, Cassidy is a healthy and happy kitten with his only hurdle now being mobility.<\/p>\n

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Cassidy\u2019s recovery had been live-streamed<\/a> on the TinyKittens website and has since gained such a following, the brave kitty had a wheelchair custom-built for him by Handicapped Pets Canada as well as two others from fans.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re hoping eventually to get him implants or prosthetics and maybe he won\u2019t need a wheelchair at all!\u201d Roche said. \u201cRight now it\u2019s awesome that he can zoom around and have some independence in the wheelchairs.\u201d<\/p>\n