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Baack Trucker Forum STAFF   Last Seen: 1 Day Ago 09.06 AM Member Since: May 2007 Location: Wisconsin Trucker? Trucking Industry Posts: 12,728 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 6,370 Thanked: 4,742 Times

Thai Elephant Injured by Land Mine Gets Artificial Leg Quote: LAMPANG, Thailand — Motola, a female elephant who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and endured painful operations, was fitted Saturday in Thailand for a permanent artificial leg. The 48-year-old pachyderm became a symbol of the plight of today's elephants, and her injury sparked international sympathy and donations. Experts were making a cast of her injured left front leg for a plastic prosthetic limb which will be attached later Saturday. "I do hope she will accept the new leg. It would be wonderful to see Motola and Baby Mosha walking together side-by-side," said Soraida Salwala, secretary general of the Friends of the Asian Elephant, a non-governmental group. Mosha, also a land mine victim, became the world's first elephant with an artificial leg, attached in 2007. Soraida said Mosha, now a 3-year-old, is faring well and has outgrown three of her prosthetic devices. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539783,00.html

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Quote: Originally Posted by Baack [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. I'm confused, they shoot horses who come up lame, why not elephants who have lost legs to landmines? Or maybe we should start making prosthetic horse legs as well. I'm sorry, I just think this is wrong. What about the animals quality of life. Once they get a prosthetic leg they can't just be returned to the wild. They become forever dependent upon man for their survival. __________________ My soul is so weary, my body is weak. I find myself too tired to speak. “Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.” ~ Bertrand Russell

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luvmyhubby Trucker Forum STAFF   Last Seen: 5 Hours Ago 07.31 PM Member Since: Sep 2005 Location: Sidney MI Trucker? Trucker Wife Posts: 2,689 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 1,132 Thanked: 1,321 Times My Truckers Blog : 1

Quote: Motola was injured in 1999 while working at a logging camp along the Myanmar-Thailand border, a region peppered with land mines after half a century of insurgency. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539783,00.html Since she was already being used as a working elephant I doubt she would have ever been returned to the wild; AND since elephants are one of the animals that are facing extinction taking care of them is important. They may NOT beable to return to the wild after being cared for BUT they could possibly be used to breed and their offspring raised in away that would allow THEM to return to the wild/protected areas....its done with other animal species all the time. __________________ We gotta start at the TOP, wipe the slate clean and take OUR country BACK! LuvMyHubby Proud mom of an Army Man Wife of a trucker

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And meanwhile there are poor and starving people in every country who might have benefited from these donations that went for an elephant leg. __________________ "Political Correctness: A doctrine... which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." "Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole." "There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats." "Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots."

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