Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

first bionic cat. Oscar will be that cat.



http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/25/u-k-cat-gets-bionic-legs/


OK, maybe it wasn’t like a scene from “The Six Million Dollar Man” TV show. And it probably didn’t set the owners back quite that much money.

But still, Oscar a cat from the British Channel Isles managed to make feline history when doctors replaced his two hind legs, which were chopped off in a farming accident, with a bionic pair.

Two-and-a-half year old Oscar lost the legs when he was run over by a combine harvester last October — but now eight months later he has regained the spring in his step.

The prosthetic paws were fitted by neuro-orthopaedic surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick, in a three-hour operation involving grafting the replacement legs onto the stumps of Oscar’s remaining bones.

Seems like a happy ending.

[MrCoffee]

1. I am very much a cat person, but those robo-legs freak me out

However, I could get over it if they also installed a little speaker that makes the "boiiiiing" sound every time he jumps.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. And from now on he'll appear only run in slow motion to the untrained eye. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

2. Oh man...

You would have thought they would have done a BETTER JOB...poor kitty. I mean seriously, didn't they have any toy stuff kitty fur to put on those feet? Maybe leather pads... thats just pathetic.

:cry:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. 3 things. Maybe they're not finished. I'm sure he would prefer having those rather than being

put to sleep. He can run and jump. He'll also make an awesome LOLcat.

[Lorien]

10. Watch this film:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10404251.stm
Those nubs are more sophisticated than they look, and the film from the OP is Oscar taking his FIRST STEPS with his new limbs.

[backscatter712]

11. That's already been fixed.

Check out the BBC video - once the kitty woke up from having his new legs put on, he immediately started walking around, started trying to jump - that was quite a thing!

[JBoy]

4. That's awesome!

[Octafish]

5. Oscar Goldman did the VO for the show.

Like Jacques Vallee wrote: ours may be an Associative Universe.

[xchrom]

7. good for oscar! nt

[TwilightGardener]

8. Poor kitteh--hope they work for him and he has a happy life.

[Lorien]

9. Here's a BBC film about Oscar. Kitty seems happy and the vet

is a very caring soul: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10404251.stm