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Wheelchairs for Pets

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• March 8: Donay Queenan's 11-year-old auburn Welsh Corgi, Max, waits at the door of Eddie's Wheels in Shelburne Falls, Mass. Max is healthy except for the degenerative myelopathy progressively paralyzing both back legs. Queenan brought Max in to pick up the custom aluminum wheelchair made so he can recapture his mobility.
• March 8: Donna Blain's 7-year-old Maltese, Gizmo, moves across the floor at Eddie's Wheels in Shelburne Falls, Mass. Gizmo hopped and hobbled on his deformed front legs before Blain adopted him a year ago. She ordered his cart after learning the odd pseudo-gait had damaged his spine over the years and would have required surgery. Now, he wheels himself around for hours on sidewalks, in parks and anywhere he can find treats and praise.
• March 8: Leslie Grinnell, left, co-owner of Eddie's Wheels, speaks to employee Amanda Jacobs as they look at their stock of aluminum pet wheelchair frames at the shop in Shelburne Falls, Mass. Grinnell and her employees create pet wheelchairs to help disabled animals recapture the mobility their limp legs, numb hips or bent backs no longer can provide.
• March 8: Jack, a 3-year-old pit bull mix, walks with his owner, Bobby Kleinau, of Watertown, Mass., as he uses a ‘pet wheelchair’ built by Eddie's Wheels in Shelburne Falls, Mass. Jack lost all use of his back legs after a slipped disc damaged his spine and required surgery. Kleinau brought Jack in to test-drive the aluminum wheelchair to see if it could help him recapture his mobility.
• March 8: Amanda Jacobs, left, of Eddie's Wheels, straps Jack, a 3-year-old pit bull mix held by his owner, Bobby Kleinau, of Watertown, Mass., into a 'pet wheelchair' at the shop in Shelburne Falls, Mass. Jack lost all use of his back legs after a slipped disc damaged his spine and required surgery. Kleinau brought Jack in to test-drive the aluminum wheelchair to see if it could help him recapture his mobility.
• March 8: Leslie Grinnell, co-owner of Eddie's Wheels, greets Jack, a 3-year-old pit bull mix held by his owner, Bobby Kleinau, of Watertown, Mass., at the shop in Shelburne Falls, Mass.