“The first time I saw him after surgery it was scary, I’ll be honest. You don’t normally see metal things poking out of your cat.”
Meet Vincent the cat. As you might have noticed, he has a pair of prosthetic hind legs.
Vincent got his prosthetic legs with the help of Dr Mary Sarah Bergh (above), a vet at Iowa State University, and BioMedtrix, a veterinary orthopedics company.
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When he was adopted as a kitten Vincent was missing his back legs from the mid-tibia down.
Bergh says she's not entirely sure how Vincent came to be like this, but that it's a very unusual condition. "It’s possible that the injury could have happened in utero, or alternatively the limbs could have been amputated post-operatively due to trauma" Bergh told BuzzFeed News over email.
To help Vincent live his best life his owner, Cindy Jones, took him to see the vet.
After trying physical therapy, Bergh decided that prosthetics were the best way forward for Vincent.
Christopher Gannon / Iowa State University
Because of the nature of his injuries, Vincent's titanium-alloy implants have to go inside his bones and come out through the skin.
"The first time I saw him after surgery, it was scary, I'll be honest," Jones said in a video released by Iowa State University. "You don't normally see metal things poking out of your cat."
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