http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100625/sc_afp/britainhealthcat

Short quotes:
>The prosthetic legs, called intraosseous transcutaneous amputation
>prosthetics (Itaps) were developed by a team from UniversityCollege
>London, led by Professor Gordon Blunn.

>...we have put a piece of metal and a flange into which skin grows
>into an extremely tight bone," ... "We have managed to get the
>bone and skin to grow into the implant and we have developed an
>'exoprosthesis' that allows this implant to work as a see-saw on the
>bottom of an animal's limbs to give him effectively normal gait...

Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html

"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)

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