<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This article will give you paws for thought on Caturday. </span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Courtesy of <i>Futurism</i> at:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/cat-amazing-3d-printed-paws?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">https://futurism.com/the-byte/cat-amazing-3d-printed-paws?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div><b>———————————————</b></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="Type secondary" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: korolev-condensed, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.015em; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-transform: uppercase; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">SURGEONS GAVE THIS ADORABLE CAT FOUR AMAZING 3D-PRINTED PAWS</h1></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_020820.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_020820.jpg</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With the help of a local university, Russian veterinarian Sergei Gorshkov 3D printed four titanium prostethics to allow a four year-old cat named Dymka to walk again after all four of her paws had to be amputated due to frostbite.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Take Two<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dymka isn’t the first cat to receive bionic paws. A male cat called Ryzhik, who also lost his paws from frostbite, received the same treatment by the same clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Thus, Dymka became the second cat in the world with prostheses of all four limbs,” a Tomsk Polytechnic University statement read, as quoted by the New York Post. “The cat’s new front and rear paws have an individual model that was printed using titanium on a 3D printer.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Out In The Cold<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">First, they used CT scans of Dymka’s legs to model the titanium legs, which they 3D printed and surgically attached to her stumps, completing the cyborg kitty aesthetic with grippy black “feet” on each end.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dymka is now happily living with the woman who first found her in the snow, The Moscow Times reports.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>———————————————</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Me (with my first kitty, Figaro) and my sister, Janet (with her horsy).</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1956_Tom_Figaro_Horsie.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1956_Tom_Figaro_Horsie.jpg</a></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Caturday”</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by Linus Petit</span></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Caturday/Caturday_by_Linus_Petit.mp3</a><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>