Nashoba Valley Tech Students Make Splint for Injured Puppy

WESTFORD, MA - Students from Nashoba Valley Technical High School helped out an injured Chihuahua puppy.

A family brought a 6-week-old Chihuahua into the Angell at Nashoba Veterinary Clinic. The dog broke its leg when it was stepped on by a child .

The puppy weighed less than a pound and splints are not made that tiny so students jumped to the rescue and built the pooch its own custom splint from a piece of metal.

"[The device was] absolutely perfect for this puppy," Lawrence Sawyer, the veterinarian on staff at Angell at Nashoba, said in a news release.

Charles Clark and David van der Heide, both juniors from Chelmsford, also volunteered to build a wheelchair device for a bunny whose hind legs were paralyzed.

Unfortunately the bunny passed away before it got to use the wheelchair.

The wheelchair was made of aluminum tubing, wheels, metal pieces, and fabric from a yoga mat. The students plan to go "back to the drawing board" and create an even better model of the "bunny wheelchair."

Photo courtesy of Nashoba Valley Tech