Cover image via stuff.co.nz
Meet Abner the duck. Both of Abner's legs are malformed and she relies heavily on her owner, Adele Gichard, for help to get around.
According to the website Stuff, four German backpackers brought Abner into the North Taranaki SPCA shelter in January this year
Its suspected that Abner's leg disabilities may have been caused by eels. Adele is a bird enthusiast and had volunteered rehabilitating feathery creatures for the shelter before. "I just feel so sorry for her."
One day Adele was doing research on the Internet about disabled ducks and got the idea of creating a wheelchair. "I went around all the hardware stores and found a square trolley," she said.
Abner loves cuddles. She definitely thinks she's the boss.
If she's in the wheelchair and one of the dogs or cats tries to get too close she bites them, which is pretty hard for the blind dog." One of Adele's pet dogs is blind. Abner has bonded with Adele's daughter Molly. "In the evenings she loves being tucked in a towel and put in my daughter's bed for story time. If my daughter's reading she'll sometimes try to eat the book."
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