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glorybebe
I looked, and didn't see this anywahere, sorry if it is a repeat!

WELLINGTON, N.Z. (AP) - A six-day-old lamb at a veterinary clinic on New Zealand's South Island bleats like any other newborn sheep but is rather different in other ways.

This lamb has seven legs. Two of the extra legs hang useless behind the lamb's forelegs. The animal has three hind legs, one of them with two hoofs. It walks using its two forelegs and three hind legs, the Ashburton Guardian newspaper said.

The lamb was born last Friday on the farm of Dave and Di Callaghan.

Dave Callaghan said he was surprised to find the seven-legged creature, born with a twin, walking round in the paddock with its mother and normal twin sibling.

"I have never seen anything like that," he said.
legs

The poor thing!
FoxMccloud
beautiful
NatalieK
That poor lamb. Not so much the legs, but the whole "missing a portion of its bowel so it is unable to pass feces and will have to be destroyed" part. The legs could have been amputated or something, it's sad that the poor thing will have to be put down because it's insides are not fully formed.
glorybebe
QUOTE(n_a_t_a_l_i_e @ Aug 2 2007, 10:53 PM) *
That poor lamb. Not so much the legs, but the whole "missing a portion of its bowel so it is unable to pass feces and will have to be destroyed" part. The legs could have been amputated or something, it's sad that the poor thing will have to be put down because it's insides are not fully formed.



Too bad they couldn't operate, but, I guess it owuldn't be worth it, and then I guess there is the ethics of keeping it alive.
She-ra
Awe the poor lamb. They should name her Seven Leg Sally. Seriously.
Darkflame
QUOTE(She-ra @ Aug 3 2007, 03:44 PM) *
Awe the poor lamb. They should name her Seven Leg Sally. Seriously.


It's strange enough a lamb with five legs, but with seven omg!
Is it just me or the world is getting stranger, because now mutations happens alot.
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