Paralysed rabbit walks again with bunny wheelchair

Bertha the bunny was given a new lease of life after her devoted owner built her a wheelchair to help her recover from a hip injury

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11809456/Paralysed-rabbit-walks-again-with-bunny-wheelchair.html


By Dillon Leet

11:59AM BST 18 Aug 2015





A disabled rabbit has been given the chance to walk again after its loving owner built it a bunny wheelchair.


Bertha the bunny was left paralysed after her hips collapsed in May.


Vets told Melanie James, her owner, that the kindest thing would be to put her down.



Instead, Mrs James made her bunny a custom wheelchair to give the pet a new lease on life.


"It's actually a puppy wheelchair that's been adapted to fit her", Mrs James said.

“It took her two days to take to it but it's given her so much independence.

"She's always been very dominant and if she didn't want to do something she wouldn't.

"She sits in it maybe for a couple of hours and then she has a rest."


The device hooks onto the bunny’s back and allows her to roam freely around her home at the Ani-Mel charity in Bank Mill, Cumbria.

Her devoted owner also gives Bertha daily baths, physiotherapy, antibiotic injections and plenty of movement to aid her recovery, with the hope that soon Bertha may be able to walk again soon.

Mrs James is thrilled with the giant rabbit’s progress.

“You still get the odd person saying she'd be better off put down”, she told reporters.

"My answer to that is that wherever there is still life, everything deserves a chance.”

really?????

They have wheelchairs for dogs and cats too.