A Duck Gets a Prosthetic Leg & Waddles Along

Wad­dles the Duck was born with a man­gled left leg. So what does his care­tak­er–Ben Wein­man, the gui­tarist of Sui­ci­dal Ten­den­cies–do? Gets him a 3D print­ed pros­thet­ic, with the help of Der­rick Cam­pana, a Cer­ti­fied Pet Pros­theti­cist at Bion­ic Pets, notes Laugh­ing Squid. And, for a brief moment, the world’s ok.

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