{"id":3721,"date":"2009-12-30T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/first-cat-to-human-paw-transplant-deemed-a-complete-success-thanko\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:20:00","slug":"first-cat-to-human-paw-transplant-deemed-a-complete-success-thanko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/first-cat-to-human-paw-transplant-deemed-a-complete-success-thanko.php","title":{"rendered":"First Cat-to-Human Paw Transplant Deemed a Complete Success [Thanko]"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO (AP) - After several decades of gruesome failures, Japanese researchers have successfully transplanted a kitten's paws to a human body. The test subject, a 29 year old model<\/a> for Thanko, a gadget seller, has a new lease on life.<\/p>

\"For years I lived with a wretched handicap,\" [name withheld] explained. \"My hands were human-like and only a little bit cute, which is a tough thing for a model.\"<\/p>

After fifteen years of transplant lists, fundraisers and miracle cures, she'd almost given up. Then researchers from Tokyo University of Science called and said they'd nearly perfected a new technique of removing a non-anesthetized kitten's paws with a rusty hacksaw and gluing them to the patient's wrists.<\/p>

\"The news was a Godsend,\" she said.<\/p>

Given the slightest surgical mistake, a small, defenseless kitten would bleed to death quite slowly and painfully on the operating table. The human subject, however, would be completely unharmed, resting peacefully unaware of any blood or shrieking.<\/p>

\"Let's just say it's good that a humane society leases the space next door,\" said one scientist. \"A really, really big humane society just filled to the brim with unloved strays.\"<\/p>

As for the young model, she woke from surgery with a slight hand ache requiring nothing more than a prescription for a minor anti-inflammatory. And according to her official press statement, she couldn't be more pleased:<\/p>

\"Now my hands are very cute!\" [Thanko<\/a> via CrunchGear<\/a>]<\/p>

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