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Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Amazing post

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A fucking rhino!?

How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The only thing animals should be forced to do!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

The snake got me laughing. They just folded it onto itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That horse one reminds me of a drawing of how a horse was hung as a form of execution for crimes, they had it strung up by it's hooves

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Would love an explanatory text writeup to go along with these. How else do vets diagnose big sick animals?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh man I feel bad for thr intubated ones

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What don't Samsung make?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

that goose is gonna kill some mfs when it wakes up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whats the type of bear on 3rd picture?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I think it might be a sloth bear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_bear

[–] [email protected] 340 points 2 days ago (16 children)

I’m sorry, but I cannot stop laughing at this hedgehog 😂

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

It's also the only one that's an Xray instead of a CT

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

Except had a brain tumor causing epilepsy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

A... giraffe? Are they alive?

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do we also get a thread of pictures of animals getting CT scans with their consent?

[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some of those seem to have consented after being forced to.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty convinced the cat is just being a cat though.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

You're supposed to hold your breath for a CT, so the fish is just fine for a bit.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago (12 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Maybe the fish are dead, or not out of the water for too long.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

OMG

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Why couldn't that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Gotta get the wings spread.

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[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My favorite is definitely that poor hedgehog, LOL

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

That one made me laugh as well. I never knew they had such... unflattering (yet flat!) bodies.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Mine are the snake and the taped bird

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

The dolphin sent me.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 days ago

The hamster burritos got me good.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to intubate those animals.

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