You might wonder what would possess someone to attempt to rehabilitate a quadriplegic dog. Ten years ago we were faced with this dilemma ourselves: our 10 year old Doberman was suddenly rigid, stuck to the floor unable to lift her head and unable to use any of her four legs….Radiographs confirmed our worst fears – [...]
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Rehabilitating quadriparetic dogs in Eddie’s dog wheelchairs
Front wheel carts for forelimb disabilities
Eddie’s Wheels is the inventor of the front wheel cart – we built our first one twelve years ago for a dog living in rescue who was born with deformed forelimbs. Front wheel carts constitute a significant percentage of our business, as we are the only canine wheelchair company that makes a simple 2-wheeled device [...]
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Mass Vet Referral Blog features Eddie’s Wheels
As a local New England company, we’ve cultivated our relationships with many major veterinary surgical and emergency hospitals and animal rehab centers. We have found that their referrals have sparked our own creativity and added to our depth of knowledge. It was referrals from Angell Memorial, Tufts Vet School, Mass Referral, among others, that inspired [...]
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Why We Love the Help-em-up Harness
Just about any dog who might need a wheelchair also needs help moving around the house, getting in and out a car, navigating stairs – and for these short trips, a manual assist is necessary. It’s not unusual for us to see dogs here being carried in with a towel wrapped around their bellies with [...]
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How it’s Made in America – Assembly and Fabrication of an Eddie’s Wheels Dog Wheelchair
Here at Eddie’s Wheels, we are very proud of the fact that we build every cart from scratch at our workshop in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. This picturesque New England village also boasts the longest operating knife-making factory in the United States (www.lamsonsharp.com). Faced with competition on the marketplace with “made in China” , one size [...]
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Living with your disabled pets – Impact on your home
We were recently interviewed for an article about the impact living with a disabled pet can have on your house, for a website called networx. Here’s the link to the article, where we talk about ramps and dealing with snow and ice. http://www.networx.com/article/eddies-wheels-freedom-for-disabled-dog We’ve been aware of the environmental impact carts can have on your [...]
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Why Eddie’s Wheels Carts do NOT cause decubital ulcers .
Eddie Grinnell, the founder and designer of Eddie’s Wheels carts, is mechanical engineer by trade, so when he was faced with the prospect of designing a wheelchair for his own paralyzed Doberman, he looked at the skeleton of a dog to create a cart that would support the dog on its bones. Our vets [...]
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Pure Bred Dogs are Prone to Disabling Genetic Diseases
If it were not for the existence of pure-bred dogs, there probably would not be enough demand for dog wheelchairs to support the half-dozen dog wheelchair companies in the U.S. In a recent issue of All Animals, the magazine of the Humane Society of the United States, the cover article was about the increasing prevalence [...]
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Demand for Full Quads Grows as Canine Rehab Becomes Widespread
In the past year we’ve noticed an increased demand for full quad carts for dogs. Some of these dogs are in hospice, the quad providing full support for dogs in the end stages of degenerative myelopathy, such as Kody. Kody is still mentally alert and wanting to go for walks with his sister. However, [...]
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The Real Deal – Personal Service at Eddie’s Wheels
The best part of working at Eddie’s Wheels is meeting those customers who travel to come here for us to meet, evaluate and measure their pets. IWe see an average of a dozen disabled pets every week at our facility. Shelburne Falls, our hometown, is a charming New England hilltown, nestled along the banks of [...]
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