Brazil: Paraplegic porcupine on a roll with DIY wheelchair

Video ID: 20140702-012 M/S Porcupine walking with wheelchair M/S Porcupine walking with wheelchair C/U Porcupine SOT. Zoo representative, Paula Cendrowicz de Sousa Matias: "We have two veterinary medicine interns and one of them had seen a chair for dogs made of the same material on YouTube." M/S Porcupine walking with wheelchair C/U Porcupine W/S Porcupine walking with wheelchair M/S Porcupine walking with wheelchair M/S Wheelchair C/U Wheelchair SCRIPT A veterinary intern at Piracicaba Municipal Zoo, Sao Paolo has saved the life of a porcupine by constructing a homemade wheelchair for the creature. The animal was taken to the zoo on May 12 by the Environmental Police after being rescued from a nightclub, which reported that the animal had fallen from the roof. The porcupine was suffering a spinal injury and was about to be put down when one clever intern built the device using a PVC pipe. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly LiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/c/Ruptly Google Plus: http://plus.google.com/111498286331086224967 Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Ruptly YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RuptlyTV DailyMotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/ruptly Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv