A German Shepherd puppy in Boise, Idaho, owes his life to a special chair. Elijah underwent extensive treatment at a local animal hospital until an employee there built him a chair that helps him digest his food. “It allowed milk to pass through but not solid food.”Elijah’s original owners couldn’t take of him, so Savannah Amberson, a vet tech at the hospital, adopted him. Elijah went through three surgeries before he got his special chair, which props him up vertically so that gravity pushes the food down to this stomach. The brother of an employee at the animal hospital made the chair, basing it on a concept known as the “Bailey Chair,” which is designed for dogs with the same condition Elijah has.

Source: Huffington Post September 08, 2016 21:45 UTC