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励志组图：残疾萌宠靠义肢重获新生
2015-03-30 17:13
来源：沪江
作者：
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“When we started building prosthetics for animals back in 2002, we would do maybe one or two a month,” said Martin Kaufmann, co-founder of OrthoPets, a Colorado-based animal prosthetic maker. “Now we make eight to ten a week.”
一家名为OrthoPets的动物假肢制作公司的联合创立人马丁·考夫曼说：“2002年我们刚开始为动物制作假肢时，制作一个要花上一到两个月的时间，而现在我们一周之内能做8到10个。”
The main reason animals are receiving prosthetic limbs more often than in the past, Kaufmann believes, is because we humans have come to look upon ourselves as the guardians of our four-legged friends rather than the owners of disposable possessions.
考夫曼认为给动物装假肢的人越来越多，是因为我们越来越意识到自己是这些四条腿动物的监护人，而不只是它们的主人。
“Once you see yourself as a guardian, you can look at animals through a different lens,” he said. “Your mindset is not to euthanize or chop off a leg, but to help them get back to normal function.”
“一旦你视自己为监护人，你就会以不同的角度来看待这些动物。”考夫曼说，“你的想法不再是对动物们轻易进行安乐死或是直接截肢就行了，你会想到如何帮助它们重新过上正常的生活。”
