Everyone is posting this and admiring it on Facebook -- so, I can’t help posting it here. Thanks to everyone who has featured it!
Do note -- it might be initially disturbing (I mean -- it’s a kitty. Serious surgery. Did anyone ask Oscar ‘You can haz bionic legs, yes?’ and so forth… I’ve had this conversation about the ethics of it and the ramification and so on already) -- but I am so happy it worked out. Do read the whole article on i09 in regards to what it might mean for future technological innovations in regards to prosthesis replacements.
And that Oscar just looks at the obstacles and goes ‘Meh…’ *clamber clamber* 
“As the only somewhat tearjerking video up top shows, Dr. Fitzpatrick has found a way to let Oscar walk again. He’s done this by grafting what are essentially metal pegs into Oscar’s legs, which heal in such a way that they pretty much identical to any other bones in Oscar’s body. The pegs are officially called intraosseous transcutaneous amputation prosthetics (Itaps for short) and are the brainchild of Professor Gordon Blunn, head of University College London’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering.”
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How long before podblack cat is made of LIKWUD METAL?
Well, I am fairly flexible, but not quite Adamantium. Yet. :p
The best comment on the NPR version of the story:
“I can haz faux paws?”
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