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Another early dinosaur tame, Tara wasn't all that unique when I first tamed her.

however, a week after I got her she lost a hand and leg in a piranha attack. I originally built this crude wooden prosthetic for her but I quickly decided I wanted to build a better prosthetic for her. so with assistance from Mason the Tek parasaur, who allowed me to do a thorough examination and study of his leg, I was able to design a special metal and aluminum prosthetic leg for Tara.

The only issue was, I wanted the leg design to "bolt on" to her body, kinda like how the leg of a Tek Parasaur looks like it's bolted on, and her leg was only missing from just below her hip down. I modified my design a bit, and with her permission, amputated the remainder of her leg while leaving her hip in place. then, I drilled into her hip and "bolted" in the new metal prosthetic! It was a pretty complicated procedure but it worked perfectly! I took a skin graft from her left hindquarter and stapled that in place to her existing tissue, so that it would eventually heal into place, and it gradually grew out and encased the prosthetic so now it looks like she's completely normal! and the new skin lacks pain receptors so if I have to cut into that leg to check on the prosthetic it won't cause her any pain!

Kinda a unique little girl, now! XD

Description

Another early dinosaur tame, Tara wasn't all that unique when I first tamed her.

however, a week after I got her she lost a hand and leg in a piranha attack. I originally built this crude wooden prosthetic for her but I quickly decided I wanted to build a better prosthetic for her. so with assistance from Mason the Tek parasaur, who allowed me to do a thorough examination and study of his leg, I was able to design a special metal and aluminum prosthetic leg for Tara.

The only issue was, I wanted the leg design to "bolt on" to her body, kinda like how the leg of a Tek Parasaur looks like it's bolted on, and her leg was only missing from just below her hip down. I modified my design a bit, and with her permission, amputated the remainder of her leg while leaving her hip in place. then, I drilled into her hip and "bolted" in the new metal prosthetic! It was a pretty complicated procedure but it worked perfectly! I took a skin graft from her left hindquarter and stapled that in place to her existing tissue, so that it would eventually heal into place, and it gradually grew out and encased the prosthetic so now it looks like she's completely normal! and the new skin lacks pain receptors so if I have to cut into that leg to check on the prosthetic it won't cause her any pain!

Kinda a unique little girl, now! XD