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Crippled Monkey, being a big fan of news stories featuring disabled animals, is going to be beside his little simian self with excitement when he sees this: . Not only is Samuri the Akita blind, but he's now a local hero as well. Without Samuri's insistence that his owners go out and help their neighbour (who, just to add a further disability gloss to this story, has lupus), she would have died.

But there's more disabled doggery! is a Jack Russell/Chihuahua cross. He hasn't got any front legs. But the nice people at the Lamar Animal Sanctuary Team are sending him to Colorado to see whether he can be fitted with prosthetics. And, if that doesn't work, he'll be given a little cart. Cute as a very cute thing.

And as if all that isn't enough, there's also a story about a prosthetic centre in Michigan that's making a new artificial leg for a four-month old puppy called (hmm, could that be some sort of dreadful pun?).

(Yes, it's true, I've got this lovely warm feeling and a silly, stupid grin on my face after reading that selection of heartwarming disabled doggy stories. Aw, bless! - Crippled Monkey)

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