Crippled Dog Walks With Skates (Aug, 1930)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1930
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1930
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Crippled Dog Walks With Skates
WHEN “Lady Lou,” the Boston Bull pet of a lady in Kansas City, was hit by a speeding motor car and partially paralyzed, it was thought that she would have to spend the rest of her life as a sedentary-invalid. Her owner, however, brought her ingenuity into play and devised for her pet a wheel chair, as shown in the photo above. Two rubber tired ball bearing skates were built onto a truss made to fit the canine’s body and now, despite her handicap, “Lady Lou” is able to get around with surprising ease.
Babe: Pig in the City had just such a dog. I wonder if the George Miller and the other writers of the film got the idea for the character from this article. To be honest this dog doesn’t look very happy.
Comment by Mike Brisendine — March 10, 2008 @ 2:36 am