Photos: Abused and disabled animals get prosthetics

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A dog named Pay de Limon (Lemon Pay) runs fitted with two front prosthetic legs at Milagros Caninos rescue shelter in Mexico City on August 29, 2012. Members of a drug gang in the Mexican state of Zacatecas chopped off Limon's paws to practice cutting fingers off kidnapped people, according to Milagros Caninos founder Patricia Ruiz. Fresnillo residents found Limon in a dumpster bleeding and legless. After administering first aid procedures, they managed to take him to Milagros Caninos, an association that rehabilitates dogs that have suffered extreme abuse. The prosthetic limbs were made at OrthoPets in Denver, U.S., after the shelter was able to raise over $6,000. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo

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Tzvika, an injured female turtle, walks with the aid of her newly attached wheels at the Wildlife Hospital in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv on January 5, 2011. About two months ago, Tzvika was run over by a lawn mower and suffered severe damage to her shell, and a spinal injury that affected her ability to use her rear limbs. The wheels, attached by veterinarians at the safari, elevate the turtle to keep the shell from being worn down and enable her to walk. REUTERS/Nir Elias

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Indian horse nicknamed "Macho", fitted with an artificial leg, enjoys a meal in Bombay on June 26, 2003. Doctors amputated the horse's front right leg and gave him a plaster of Paris prosthetic earlier this month after an animal welfare group found him on a highway bleeding from a leg wound. REUTERS/Roy Madhur

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Oscar the cat, which had its hind legs severed by a combine harvester, stands in this undated handout. Two-year-old Oscar can walk again after being fitted with prosthetic limbs in a world-first operation. Oscar was given a pair of artificial limbs by veterinary surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick, using a technique developed by a University College London team. REUTERS/Handout

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A keeper holds an artificial tail fluke attached to female bottle-nose dolphin "Fuji", estimated to be 37-years-old, at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobu town on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on February 14, 2007. Fuji lost 75 percent of her tail fluke due to an unknown disease in 2002. The dolphin can swim and jump using the artificial tail fluke, which is believed to be the world's first artificial fin for a dolphin, and was developed by veterinarians and Japan's largest tire maker Bridgestone Co., an aquarium official said. REUTERS/Issei Kato

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A 48-year-old female elephant named Motala walks on her newly attached prosthetic leg at the Elephant Hospital in Lampang province, north of Bangkok on August 16, 2009. Motala's front left leg was maimed after she stepped on a land mine at the Myanmar-Thai border 10 years ago. REUTERS/Phichaiyong Mayerku

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Hoppa, a four-year-old mixed breed dog born without front legs, uses a prosthetic device to walk outside in the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv on February 28, 2010. The device was invented especially for Hoppa by an animal-loving art student, who hopes his wheeling device will improve the lives of pets born with abnormalities or with amputated limbs. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

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A 25-year-old female loggerhead turtle named Yu swims after receiving her 27th pair of prosthetic flippers at the Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, western Japan on February 11, 2013. Life looked grim for Yu, a loggerhead turtle, when she washed up in a Japanese fishing net five years ago, her front flippers shredded after a brutal encounter with a shark. Now keepers at an aquarium in the western Japanese city of Kobe are fighting to find a high-tech solution that will allow the 25-year-old turtle to swim again, with years of labors and 27 models of prosthetic fins behind them without success. REUTERS/Suma Aqualife Park

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The piglet known across the internet as Chris P. Bacon examines his new wheelchair on the office floor of veterinarian and owner Len Lucerno in Clermont, Florida February 13, 2013. The piglet's hind legs are deformed and Dr. Lucero had fashioned a wheelchair out of K'nex toys to help the piglet walk. Chris has outgrown his second wheelchair, and will soon grow into his new, more permanent and rugged model. REUTERS/Scott Audette

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A stray dog from an area hit by the May 12 earthquake tries to walk with a home-made walker at a shelter for homeless dogs and cats in Shuangliu County, Sichuan province on June 29, 2008. More than 100 homeless dogs and cats from earthquake-hit areas, including Beichuan, Wenchuan, Qingchuan and Dujiangyan, are housed in the shelter, local media reported. REUTERS/Stringer

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Marco van den Boom installs a wheel of a medical roll car for French bulldog Billy at the headquarters of 'Rehatechnik fuer Tiere' (medical engineering for animals) in the western town of Witten on November 9, 2012. Four-year old Billy, whose hind legs have been paralyzed since birth, ran for the first time on Friday with the aid of the roll car. 'Rehatechnik fuer Tiere' owner Marco van den Boom, custom builds a range of roll cars for disabled or infirm dogs and animals, to help aid their mobility or paralysis needs. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

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Abayed, a six-year-old herding dog, walks with a specially-made wheeled walking aid outside the Humane Center for Animal Welfare near Amman on February 26, 2013. The dog, whose name means "white", was hospitalized and treated after a bullet pierced his spine and paralyzed him two years ago. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji

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The hind paws of Abayed, a six-year-old herding dog, are seen attached to a specially-made wheeled walking aid inside the Humane Center for Animal Welfare near Amman on February 26, 2013. The dog, whose name means "white", was hospitalized and treated after a bullet pierced his spine and paralyzed him two years ago. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji

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Brazilian veterinarian Eliane Jessula shows a domesticated tortoise, which lost the use of its hind paws after being hit by a stray bullet fired from a Rio de Janeiro shanty-town on August 6, 2002. The 20-year-old animal was learning to walk, or roll, using its front paws and a pair of wheels from a television rack, attached to the bottom side of its shell with adhesive bandage. Rio's notorious slums, where powerful gangs run lucrative arms and drugs trade, often become the scene of violent shootouts, which claim many innocent lives. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes

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Abandoned dogs, one wearing a device that aids walking, play at Beijing's Human and Animal Environmental Education Center, a shelter for homeless animals on June 26, 2006. At present, the center houses about 500 animals and many of them - all abandoned - are either old, weak, sick or disabled. REUTERS/Jason Lee

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A seven-year-old disabled cat named Cici is helped to walk by a device as she participates in "Cat Show 2002" in the western Turkish city of Izmir on December 29, 2002. Cici, named " Pet of Day" in the show, was disabled in a traffic accident two months ago. REUTERS

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A disabled dog named Christmas stands during a charity event in Minsk on August 11, 2012. The Public Association for Animal Protection "EGIDA" organized an event to match homeless dogs and cats to prospective new owners in the Belarusian capital on Saturday. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

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A Yorkshire Terrier named Hope shows off her uni-wheel attached to a doggie vest in Longmont, Colorado April 21, 2013. Hope is missing one limb and is able to walk with the wheel attachment. Picture taken April 21, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

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Naki'o, a mixed-breed dog with four prosthetic devices, goes for a run in Colorado Springs April 12, 2013. Naki'o lost all four feet to frostbite when he was abandoned as a puppy in a foreclosed home. Picture taken April 12, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (