A newborn piglet named Chris P. Bacon, who was born without the use of his hind legs, is learning to walk thanks to a wheelchair made out of toy parts.

A young woman brought the piglet to a Florida veterinarian with the intention of putting him down. She didn’t know what kind of life he would have if he couldn’t walk.

However, the vet had a proposal for her.

Dr. Len Lucero, a veterinarian at Eastside Veterinary Hospital in Clermont, Fla., said that if she surrendered the animal to him, he would make sure he would keep the piglet alive as long as he could.

The vet took the piglet home and his family played with him.

Later one night, while his family was sleeping, Lucero went to the barn and dug out some toy parts that his son once played with, and used them to construct a wheelchair with a soft-strap harness.

“I started to piece it together to see what I could come up with,” Lucero told the Toronto Star.

The wheelchair is made of K’Nex, a children's toy similar to Lego. He videotaped Chris P. Bacon.

The video shows the piglet walking around the vet’s home making little grunting noises while scooping food off the carpet and drinking from a hand-held milk bottle.

If there is one complaint that viewers have, however, is that the wheels seem too light for Chris.

However, the vet has since weighed the wheels down by about two pounds, and the wheels work better now.

However, he won’t have the option when he gets bigger and gains weight.

At some point, he will graduate to a larger wheelchair donated by the group known as Handicapped Pets.

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The piglet weighs 4 pounds now and is expected to grow to about 50 pounds or bigger, Lucero said.

The vet believes Chris P. Bacon is an American pot-bellied pig, which should live for 15 years.

Lucero said Chris, who has a Facebook page and Twitter account, sleeps on his side and likes to burrow his snout into towels and blankets at home.

He also likes to play with his stuffed animals.