Harold, a disabled therapy dog from San Mateo, Calif., recently received a new set of wheels designed by Bay Area elementary and high school students.
The paralyzed Chihuahua mix is the ambassador of UP Academy, an elementary school that offers all children an inclusive learning environment.
UP Academy founder Tanya Sheckley and her family adopted Harold last year after he was abandoned on a roadside. Determined to help their new ambassador with her puppy’s mobility issues, students began brainstorming different designs to help him get up and moving again. Then, engineering students from the nearby Mountain View High School wanted to help. They measured Harold with their 3D equipment and went to work fashioning a prototype, a fiberglass sleeve equipped with skateboard wheels.
“Being able to give [Harold] something to put him at the same level of every other dog’s experience is really meaningful,” Mountain View High School student Sabina Davis told ABC7. “I myself don’t have a dog, but I love dogs and think they’re really great. With the concept of them being our companion, we should be able to treat them with the same love that we treat ourselves.”
The proud children presented Harold with his new set of wheels, which has been named “the dinosaur,” last week. Now, he’s zooming around like never before.
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This is very sweet and exactly these are the type of stories anyone would be happy to hear coming from STUDENTS…Thank you to ALL those kinder spirited Students who support this amazing task
Do not!!!
Stop this festival forever!
Thank you for helping the all dogs with from death?
Stop those people from Vietnam from eating cats and dogs.
Oh thank you, young people, for having such wonderful and caring hearts. I pray that all will continue to maintain the kindness within them and spread it to as many animals and humans as possible.
Its so Nice to see young people and their compassion for Animals that need Help and then take it upon themselves to make it happen,
Stop killing innocent dogs and Cats
Disgusting.
Please enact laws against this barbarism. Have you learned nothing.
Je remercie toutes ces personnes qui sont sur le terrain afin de secourir les animaux !
Bravo !
Wonderful act of true kindness!! Thank you!! God bless you!!
Can I ask why don’t the Asian people speak out about this
Why would you want to eat meat that has been killed with poison. You will end up getting sick and dying yourself. If this is for families then what are these families teaching their children er n about love and compassion.
What a lovely thing to do for a fellow being 🐶🐕🐾🖤💜💛
And the children shall lead us. I am so very impressed that young people show their caring hearts & are doing something tangible for the neediest animals in our world. They are heroes. In the past, this little dog just may have been euthanized because of his disability, but they have saved him. AND, very importantly, they have given us hope.
Ces étudiants sont vraiment de belles personnes!!!
GOD BLESS THEM ALL.
These students are so sweet, thank you so much for being so kind
Amazing students, thank you 🙂
good news for a change.
This is so great for these students to create and make these for the dog, such an uplifting story to read compared to most we read of abuse and torture of animals.
Agree.