Poor Sonic…
they did surgery on a grape!
I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to intubate those animals.
I actually would love to be the one to intubate them!
Actually most of them (according to a friend who works for a large animal hospital and has some human EMS background) are intubated far easier than humans - and they place a “hand safer” device (if you’re old enough to remember the “plastic screw device”-I don’t actually remember the actual name- used to open a seizure patients jaw that were once used, they are similar).
Back in my training day we used cats to practice neonatal intubation.
The hamster burritos got me good.
I’m sorry, but I cannot stop laughing at this hedgehog 😂
Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.
they made that mfer 2-dimensional
Singer would be proud
It’s also the only one that’s an Xray instead of a CT
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!
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)
“That’s it I’m taping you down!”
Poor Blaze doing his checkup 🤭
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!
MOISTURISE ME
Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.
Except had a brain tumor causing epilepsy.
why are they MRI-ing a filet? :3
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.
The only thing animals should be forced to do!
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:
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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. :)
That CT scanner is like a D&D magic item that lets you conjure up to 2 hit-dice worth of medicated animals…
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.
OMG
I don’t think animals are ever okay getting CT scanned
that goose is gonna kill some mfs when it wakes up
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.
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
A fucking rhino!?
How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?
I’m guessing they would have some sort of overhead crane to do the heavy lifting
