Florida tortoise fitted with custom wheelchair

Scoot Reeves was injured by a front-end loader and fitted with a custom wheelchair. (Photo courtesy Walkin' Pets)

Scoot Reeves was injured by a front-end loader and fitted with a custom wheelchair. (Photo courtesy Walkin' Pets)

A tortoise injured by a front-end loader was recently fitted with a custom wheelchair.

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Scoot Reeves was taken to a veterinary clinic paralyzed with his shell cracked after being run over and was at risk to be euthanized.

Sasha Corbett, a vet tech, had recently gotten a wheelchair for her dog Rosalie through Gunnar's Wheels Foundation and looked into getting a Walkin' Pets Wheelchair for Scoot.

The company took months designing a wheelchair and now Scoot is moving again.

Scoot is not the first injured, shelled reptile to be fitted with a wheelchair. 
An injured box turtle at the Maryland Zoo was fitted with a wheelchair made from Lego bricks in September 2018.

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