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KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner
Kristie Christensen puts her artificial foot into a specially made pedal on her bike at her home in Kaysville on Friday. Christensen, who wears an artificial leg because of a birth defect, is trying to raise nearly $30,000 to pay for a new artificial leg.

Kaysville family raising funds to buy daughter new prosthetic leg

Last updated Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 12:19pm

KAYSVILLE — “I can dance, just don’t watch me because I look really funny,” Kristie Christensen jokes.

Christensen, a 23-year-old Utah State University student from Kaysville, wants to dance and hike, activities she has been unable to do well because part of her leg was amputated when she was 16 months old.

Christensen would like a new prosthetic leg, but is hoping she doesn’t have to pay an arm and a leg to get one.

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Seth Pack sits with his mother, Sylvia Newman, as he talks about his recovery Monday at his home in Ogden. Pack lost part of his left leg and suffered injuries to his right leg when he stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Wounded soldier, his mother home in Ogden for the holidays

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 7:36am

Seth Pack came home to Ogden on Sunday night, and I can finally tell you who his mom is.

Seth, 20, is the Ogden soldier horribly wounded in Afghanistan on July 1. Much of his left leg was blown off when he stepped on a mine, and he has spent the last five months undergoing multiple surgeries and therapy.

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PAUL MOSELEY/Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Midnite was an abused three-legged horse taken in by Ranch Hand Rescue, an animal sanctuary, in Argyle, Texas. Bob Williams came up with the idea of having a Fort Worth company design and build a prosthetic for the miniature horse.

Texas horse kicking up his heels with prosthetic leg

McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 4:05am

ARGYLE, Texas -- A trio of protective llamas, two curious goats and another miniature horse crowd around while a tiny prosthetic limb is fitted to Midnite's deformed hind leg.

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Siberian huskey is first to get prosthetic front paw

Leah Friedman, Raleigh News and Observer

Last updated Friday, April 1, 2011 - 1:22pm

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Zeus, a Siberian husky, had to rest through most of his news conference. With only three working legs, he had to limp to prevent his fourth -- a left-front stump -- from hitting the ground.

Hobbling wore him out.

His owner and veterinarians at the North Carolina State School of Veterinary Medicine hope a state-of-the-art procedure, through which a titanium prosthetic front paw is infused into his leg bone, will let him act more like his 5-year-old self.

The procedure has been performed on six other animals' hind legs since 2005, but never on a front paw. Which is why North Carolina State put Zeus in the spotlight before the surgery.

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