I’m sorry, but I cannot stop laughing at this hedgehog 😂
“That’s it I’m taping you down!”
Poor Blaze doing his checkup 🤭
Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.
MOISTURISE ME
It’s also the only one that’s an Xray instead of a CT
The bdsm community is leaking.
No pun intended btw.
Wearing a surgical drain is brave all on its own, but that makes me extra inspired!
why are they MRI-ing a filet? :3
I love how it’s just taped down with like masking tape lol
Otherwise he’d be moving so fast the blueshift would be visibly noticeable
I hope they checked his pockets before the MRI violently pulls a bunch of rings at dangerous velocities!
they made that mfer 2-dimensional
Singer would be proud
Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.
Except had a brain tumor causing epilepsy.
One of the most difficult parts of veterinary medicine is the fact that your patients can’t directly communicate. Oftentimes, issues go unnoticed simply because the animal masks things like pain. Luckily, the vet immediately knew this hedgehog had something wrong, because it kept exploding into a bunch of golden rings.
Tiny little hedgehog voice: I’ve been a bad boy. A bad bad boy.
(Might be a girl having trouble getting my phone to load anymore than a thumbnail worth of pixels)
Oh man I feel bad for thr intubated ones
They’re probably having a better time than the ones that aren’t intubated. The intubation is to make sure they’re still breathing while they’re anesthetized. The ones without tubes are just awake and angry/scared.
they did surgery on a grape!
A… giraffe? Are they alive?
Yeah, they’re usually found in the grasslands of Africa and a few other places in the world in addition to zoos and such.
I mean giraffe from the photo.
Or it’s just a head with neck 👀They have very long necks. The rest of it is still standing in the lobby, where a nice old lady with poor eyesight is telling one of its legs about her grandson.
This whole thread has been a hoot, but your comment properly sent me into fits of giggling. I can picture the nice old lady perfectly.
Poor Sonic…
Why couldn’t that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck
Gotta get the wings spread.
The bird is for a normal x-ray. Here’s the context.
CT scans take much longer, but an x-ray is just a few seconds. I think it’s just a practical way to get the bird in place for a quick x-ray, and by practical I mean the vet techs minimize their (very real) risk of being murdered.
hehe
Random mirror linker btw:
https://farside.link/https://www.reddit.com/r/VetTech/comments/1ge3kh0/modern_art
where’s the seed lebirdsky?
😆
Birds have very delicate air sacs. For small birds like that constricting them can seriously damage them and cause issues breathing.
I think they lack a diaphragm. It was weird reading in my cockatiel care books that some handling on the neck was fine, but even small pressure to their chest could prevent them from breathing.
That is correct. :)
How long does something need to stay still for a CT scan and can you send water through, just thinking about aquatic animals if you could just send the tank through.
Looking at my axolotl who can happily sit there not moving for hours in the hope of ambushing prey, staying still should be easy enough.
Depends what imaging technique they’re using. X-ray CT might work ok with a little water in the way. Nuclear magnetic resonance might not be so good.
On OkCupid, I once briefly courted a woman with the username “RazeTheAxolotl.” One of my opening questions was whether she meant “raise” or “raze.” She meant “raise.”
I don’t think asking that helped with my chances. We didn’t end up going on any dates.
The hamster burritos got me good.
that goose is gonna kill some mfs when it wakes up
I don’t think animals are ever okay getting CT scanned
There’s definitely two kinds
- Ima napping
- You think this is funny? This cell won’t hold me forever. And once I’m free, you will all regret it
Are we the bad guys?
If you need to ask…
Do we also get a thread of pictures of animals getting CT scans with their consent?
Some of those seem to have consented after being forced to.
I’m pretty convinced the cat is just being a cat though.
Looks like it’s going through some reps
Thanks for sharing. How does the fish one work? The dolphin I get because it breathes oxygen, but don’t all fish have gills? I feel like it should be in the water.
… Who said it needs to live.
💀💀💀
Maybe the fish are dead, or not out of the water for too long.
You’re supposed to hold your breath for a CT, so the fish is just fine for a bit.
It can be out for a matter of minutes.
Humans are just ludicrously overdependent on aerobic respiration, our brain metabolism is overcharged to the point of being broken.
Most other animals have a lot more room to function sans oxygen, they’re more limited by stored energy reserves.
Why do you use sans instead of just saying without?
Can’t speak for op but it usually adds cheek. Sans’ use was revived a few decades ago. It tends to alter one’s tone to sound slightly stuffier, like putting on a top-hat and monocle. I’ve also seen it used more randomly by younger people who recently learned its meaning.
Edit: disclaimer and use case
I’m old, from when it was first revived, it’s slightly snarky and removes seriousness from a topic in the middle.
I’m in a yoga teacher training at the moment, and a biologist by background. It’s been amazing seeing how the different yogic breathing techniques impact mental and physical states.
Those crazy folks in the Indus valley civilization made a serious study of this, at least 4,000 years ago according to current evidence. Some techniques, like yoga nidra (alternate nostril breathing for several minutes) have significant impacts on nervous system function.
You can measure this directly with a cheap heart rate monitor and an app that can interpret and returns stats on heart rate variability.
Those old yogis made a study out of exploiting our brain’s dependence on oxygen and developed some pretty cool biohacks.
Does
alternate nostril breathing
mean holding lefty closed with your finger for a few minutes then righty, or does it mean back and forth… surely you can’t do this without manual intervention, right?
Yes that’s the method. It’s improperly called yoga nidra, but the correct term for the method is Nadi Shodhana Pranayama.
I’m not exactly sure what you mean. You describe the method that is used. One holds their own hand to the face with the nose between thumb and index finger. On alternate breath cycles, you direct the breath through alternating sides.
Did I understand your question correctly?
You answered my wildly rambling question—thank you!
Anything on there that fixes POTS or general awareness of everything around us?
Do you mean the syndrome that causes lightheadedness when standing up?
I found a 2021 research article that shows 6 months of regular cardiovascular exercise improves the condition. Some forms of physical yoga practice are vigorous and get into the cardio range.
I can’t find yoga-specific studies on POTS, but there are many on other conditions that include dizziness and syncope as main symptoms. That’s what a quick google scholar search revealed.
Yoga emphasizes attention and breath awareness during the movement practices. I personally have a job that requires a lot of stooping and standing. At first I was often dizzy standing up, but as my practice has intensified and progressed that has gone away completely.
I don’t know, if your physician clears you for the activity, there are many benefits to it. Maybe worth a deeper look?
And as for general awareness, hell yes. That is the entire focus of yoga philosophy, to quiet the busy mind. The scientific studies on that are plentiful.
Wim Hof breathing is so good from time to time
Have never given him money and think he ventures into pseudoscience but this beginner video is safe (no BS, just breathing)
Yeah, people, don’t follow Wim Hof in having enemas on public fountains.
Public fountain? I think you mean community bidet
Somehow I don’t think the fish consented to this…
We need higher res photo of Steven the fish
I hate to read any post on the internet that involves both the words “animal” and “consent.”
Human beings are inexplicable, contradictory species that don’t know how to view the world through anything other than our momentary feelings about things, and the universe suffers for it.
Whats the type of bear on 3rd picture?
I think it might be a sloth bear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_bear
The only thing animals should be forced to do!
