We have always hoped that eventually Eddie’s Wheels would offer on-site animal rehabilitation services, and we are pleased to say that day has come! Erika McElwey, formerly of Rivermeadow Farm Animal Rehabilitation Center, is joining us on Wednesdays every week to see rehab clients. Erika was our first rehab practitioner for Sweet Pea, our beloved [...]
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Change Your Range – Animal Rehab at Eddie’s Wheels
Gait Re-training Using Eddie’s Wheels Stand and Dogtread
Albert, a French Bulldog, who had spinal surgery in April 2011 came to see us two months ago to have stirrups put on his wheelchair. Despite having feeling in his feet, he was dragging his legs and “being lazy” about using his rear legs in the cart. Nerves regenerate very slowly – only one millimeter [...]
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Common Myths about Dog Wheelchairs
Here are some common myths about dog wheelchairs that we hear about – from both pet owners and veterinarians – and we’d like to dispel them. Myth #1: Big dogs won’t use carts. Over twenty years ago, when our 80 lb. Doberman became paralyzed in the rear, that’s what we were told too. And in [...]
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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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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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