Incredible to watch the resilience of injured wild animals.
They get injured, heal without treatment, adjust to their predicament and get on with it.
Look at Waterbirds. So many lose a leg/foot, being bitten off by hungry fish.
They heal and waddle on.
I was watching a Pacific Black Duck on the weekend, one leg missing from the knee down, the gait changes, the good leg seems to move with the knee bent enough so that the shortened leg is touching the ground. Very little wobble because of a shortened leg.
Amazing. Could us humans do that? Have a leg amputated at the knee joint, allow it to heal naturally then get on with life?
No. We would no doubt bleed to death.
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wild haggis 
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We have a raven with one leg who comes to the garden every day to be fed.I call him Hoppy, a tad cruel perhaps but he doesn’t know 
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I’ve had a magpie with one eye who lived out his last days in my garden and a squirrel who lived at the top of my pine tree …his tail was wispy and bent at a weird angle and he only had one ear.
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