NH company builds custom wheelchair for 70-pound tortoise with rare disease

NH company builds custom wheelchair for 70-pound tortoise with rare disease
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George Bailey the tortoise
A tortoise born with a metabolic bone disease can now walk easier thanks to a New Hampshire company.
Walkin’ Pets, of Amherst, built a custom wheelchair for an 11-year-old Sulcata tortoise named George Bailey, who was rescued from an exotic animal rescue in Tennessee. Sign up for our Newsletters
“(It’s) a custom tortoise wheelchair with a special base featuring a convex support structure to accommodate the natural contour of George’s under shell and a harnessing system designed to expand with George as he grows,” Walkin’ Pets representatives wrote in a news release.

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