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A hen owned by a Massachusetts woman who specializes in chicken rehabilitation and rescue is getting fitted with a prosthetic leg Wednesday at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Andrea Martin, of Clinton, says she is paying for the $2,500 operation out of her own pocket. She says the alternative is euthanization. The chicken, named Cecily, was born with a damaged tendon in the leg that makes it useless. The surgery will begin when Emi  Knafo, a specialist in avian orthopedics, will amputate Cecily's right leg. After a 10- to 14-day recovery period, the prosthetic, made on a 3-D printer, will be fitted. Similar surgery has been performed  on a rooster and duck, though not at Tufts. The Gazette

The mother of a newborn baby who was abandoned in a stroller on a Los Angeles street has been arrested.Belen Ramirez, 20, of Long Beach was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of a felony count of child endangerment, police said. The one-day-old boy's umbilical cord was still attached when a passerby found him in stroller near a church Tuesday afternoon, not far from the University of Southern California. Alex Diaz who is a father of 2 children called emergency services with a report of child abuse after first seeing the 'dirty' stroller at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Dana Street on Monday night. When he passed the same spot the following day around 1pm he decided to look inside, and to his disbelief saw the baby, wearing pajamas and covered in sweat, inside. 'You took your time to dress him up, but you couldn't take your time to take him somewhere safe,' Diaz said. 'You just left him out on the street - threw him out like trash. Can't do ...

It has been officially confirmed that Warri billionaire and CEO of 911 Entertainment, Ayiri Emami has checked Africa's reggae star and guitarist Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek into a rehabilitation home situated in Abuja. He has been receiving treatments from specialists who were flown into the country on his behalf. In relation to this development, it has also been announced that people should expose and desist from offering donations to people impersonating and/or claiming to accept donations on behalf of Majek Fashek for his rehabilitation. Majek Fashek who until recently has been spotted several times in the streets of Lagos looking "scruffy and lean", begging for money and being laughed at by miscreants and mocked by people who once worshiped him. In the last couple of months a number of celebrities, public figures and even Majek Fashek's family members have been trying to raise funds to rehabilitate him. Luckily for him, Ayiri Emami has st...

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