Karamel given set of prosthetic wheels to get around

A squirrel who was heavily injured in a wild animal trap and lost both his front paws has been given a set of prosthetic wheels.

The squirrel, called Karamel, was caught in a wild animal trap in the southeastern Turkish city of Batman, veterinarian and an animal activist Tayfun Demir said on Tuesday.

The orthopedists at Istanbul's Aydın University designed a prosthetic wheels for him.

One of them, Mustafa Gültekin, said they would wait for Karamel to adjust to the new device before passing on to the next phase, which would be to provide the squirrel with prosthetic limbs.