If you're over 40 years old, you're probably old enough to remember the "Six Million Dollar Man" or the "Bionic Woman," two 1970's-era TV shows that featured a man and a woman who were so injured in accidents that parts of their bodies were replaced with cybernetic prosthetics.
Well, now comes the Bionic Cat, and it isn't a TV show at all! Oscar, a British cat, lost his rear paws in a terrible accident with a combine harvester last fall. Doctors fitted him with metal prosthetics and treated him with about four months of rehabilitation to teach him how to walk with his new paws.
And while Oscar may not have super strength or speed, he certainly can get around now. To read the entire article from NPR, go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128107345&sc=fb&cc=fp.
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