The prototype of a prosthetic leg made for Pete the parrot. (Penn Vet)
ALLENTOWN, Philadelphia: It was Pete's screams that first alerted Benjamin Spalding to a crisis in backyard. A fox had grabbed the 34-year-old Mealy Amazon parrot as he was climbing up the side of his aviary and tore off his left foot.
Spalding and his wife, Stacey Gehringer, of Allentown, Philadelphia, wasted no time in getting Pete to Penn Vet's Ryan Hospital, where Dr La'Toya Latney, Service Head and Attending Clinician of the Exotic Companion Animal Medicine, and the emergency team were waiting.
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