Dog that chewed off its own feet to escape trap walks again thanks to prosthetics

If there was ever a dog that deserved a second chance, Andre is that dog.

He’s been living with just two legs for a long time.

“He’s just a fun loving guy, very warm personality,” Martin Kaufmann with OrthoPets said.

Andre came a long way to meet Kaufmann in Denver, Colorado.

The 3-year-old Shepherd-Rottweiler-Lab mix is from Alaska and lost his front and back left legs when he was caught in an illegal wild animal trap.

He chewed off his own paws to get free and for weeks, he lived under a truck camper shell.

He only weighed 38 pounds when Alaskan Dog and Puppy Rescue found him.

Andre’s rescuers contacted OrthoPets to make him prosthetic legs.

“With just two legs, he can’t stand up,” Kaufmann said.

Just two days after that first fitting, on Wednesday Andre got his first second chance to stand.

Full WKYC Article

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Top 10 Most Common Ingredients in Fast Food

Order a meal in any fast-food restaurant, and you’ll likely walk away with a sandwich, fries and a drink. If you had to identify the ingredients of this meal, you might list beef (or chicken), lettuce, tomato, cheese, ketchup, bread, potatoes and soda. Not complicated, right? Wrong.

Burger and chicken joints don’t think of the building blocks of a menu item as ingredients. They think of them as components, which are made of ingredients. For example, McDonald’s famous Big Mac jingle — “two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun” — suggests the sandwich has seven components. Would you believe it has 67 ingredients?

HowStuffWorks.com

Here’s the top half of the top ten:

10. Citric Acid: The Most Common Preservative
9. High-fructose Corn Syrup: The Most Common Sweetener
8. Caramel Color: The Most Common Color Additive
7. Salt: The Most Common Flavor or Spice
6. Monosodium Glutamate: The Most Common Flavor Enhancer

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What Will Become of Me by Adrian Piper

The artist started to collect her hair and toenails since 1985, once she dies, her cremated remains will be part of this collection.

I’m thinking there’s no way she kept all of her nail clippings – I mean, sometimes those things just shoot off and disappear.

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