ORLANDO, fla. — Prospects for a disabled farm animal born without the use of its hind legs are normally grim. That’s not the case for Chris P. Bacon, a month-old piglet from Florida whose videotaped struggle to learn how to use a tiny wheelchair have turned him an Internet sensation.
“He’s cute. He grunts. And he’s got a pretty cute little wheelchair,” said veterinarian Len Lucero, trying to explain why his YouTube video of Chris’s exploits have logged more than 474,000 views in two weeks.
After a client who could not care for Chris dropped him off at Lucero’s veterinary hospital in Clermont, Fla., 30 miles west of Orlando, Lucero grabbed pieces from a set of K’nex construction toys to build a wheelchair to mobilize the rear-end of the pink-and-white piglet.
Lucero said he does not know how big Chris might become, or anything about his parentage. Chris has outgrown his second wheelchair and will soon grow into his new, more permanent and rugged model.
