Gita's Tale

Fur kids in wheelchairs

01 Mar 2009 2 Comments

by Gita in A day in the Life of Gita, Canine Health, Travel Tags: Acadia National Park, dog cart, dog wheelchair, handicapped pets, Maine, maltipoo, MDI, Mount Desert Island, paralyzed dog, paralyzed pet, pet travel, special needs pets, spinal injury dog, spinal injury pets

I told you about my friend, Mister and that he’s paralyzed? Yeah, so, I want you to know, if your furkid has to have a wheelchair or cart, don’t be sad. Mister isn’t sad or anything! He loves playing with the rest of us kids who aren’t paralyzed. He doesn’t even have to have his cart to get around. He hops all over the place. …and he’s fast, too! He uses his cart when he’s going to go outside and play and stuff.

This is him when we’re getting ready to go out when we were in Maine. He got a new t-shirt when we were in Bar Harbor, ME. I think he wanted to show it off.

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Yeah, so, we went to the Orono Farmers’ Market. He got to get out of the car and tool around. I had to stay in the car. Not fair. But he had fun! He was quite popular.

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So, Mister wants you to know it’ll be ok if your furkid needs wheels. He said he’s just as happy as before and you can still play with other kids and go places and stuff. …even without a cart. He says you can learn to hop really, really fast. Just in case you wanted to know, Mister got his cart from Eddie’s Wheels.