#animal medical

[kedreeva]

We had a wind storm this weekend and these two took offense to the wind making Sounds and injured themselves. Artemis (bottom) bruised one side of her face up, but she's acting fine otherwise so she'll probably be back to normal in a few days.

Stan, on the other hand, bruised his left eye socket and was acting Off with a capital O. He's normally not very active, his legs don't work all that great and he can't catch a deep breath because of his messed up ribs and stuff, but he was lethargic and not eating/drinking normally, so I swapped him into Joslin's appt slot today and took him in.

It wasn't my normal vet again, and I told her that Stan is a hot mess, and she felt him up and told me well his abdominal cavity sounds weird, I said yeah he's got messed up air sacs. She goes well, one of his legs is atrophied more than his other, and I said was it his right one because that's the one that was worse as a baby and doesn't work right, and she goes yeah it was the right one. She goes, it feels like his kidneys are too big, this could be a case of gout, we can xray to look for it. Now, I know it's not gout, but an xray will either enlighten her on the fact that I'm not joking about how messed up this bird is, or it will show her what's actually injured, or both.

So she does the xray and she calls me into the back room and she goes well. it's not gout. his kidneys are actually small and I was feeling his messed up air sac. there's a lot wrong here, but I'm looking at his last xray and there's a lot wrong there, and most of it is the same. he got a little better in some ways and a little worse in other ways, but the issue is that it looks like he jammed his hip joint and injured it a little, possibly from landing wrong.

you know. an injury. like from the ultimate panic of the Wind Making Sounds.

Anyway he got some antibiotics against infection and some pain meds and we'll give him a couple of tube feedings until he's not feeling crappy. For now he's asleep in my room on a roost.

#stan the peachick #artemis #peafowl #peacocks #peahens #birds #my pets #animal medical #it always cracks me up to take my birds to the vet #I delivered him to the xray room #set him down #and said if you need him to lie down just #you know #put your hands on his wings by his shoulders and tip him #he'll just let you tip him into lying down #and as I left I heard them doing so #and a quiet 'I wish all birds were like this' #this vet is being trained by my vet I think #I miss my vet she was almost always right #this one is 0 for 2 on her guesses vs mine so far #I adore the techs though #the one came to get a photo of stan for his son and #I said find me a clipper and I'll give you a feather tip for him #and gave him one of Stan's baby eyes

[sleepy-bebby]

They did a CT scan on a fish

#forbidden taco #memes #meme #cute #funny #fish memes #cute animals #fish meme #wholesome #funny memes #lol #dank #fish #what is the copay for this fish #dank meme #dank memes #mri #medical meme #medical memes

[snuize]

Forgot I made this in a dazed state last night and got jump scared by it in my drafts

#ignore my strange taste in media #ghostbusters #egon spengler #house md #greg house #honey i shrunk the kids #Wayne Szalinski #tf2 #tf2 medic #re animator #reanimator #herbert west #batman forever #edward nygma #frankenhooker #Jeffrey Franken #the dark knight #jonathan crane #back to the future #doc brown #the fly #seth brundle #freaked #Elijah C. Skuggs #not art

[aho-bot]

Individual gifs from my animation in case anyone wants to make them in-game sprays or something

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #animation #tf2 scout #tf2 demoman #tf2 pyro #tf2 medic #tf2 spy #tf2 sniper #tf2 engineer #tf2 heavy #tf2 soldier #aho art #animated gifs

[triptych-of-voids]

daily dose of silly guy

#doodles #team fortress 2 #tf2 #medic tf2 #tf2 medic #love these animals btw. the bitchins.

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Two-headed tortoise Janus turns 25!

Janus, who also has two hearts, two pairs of lungs and two distinct personalities, would not have survived long in the wild as he cannot retract his heads into his shell to seek shelter from predators. But at the Geneva Natural History Museum, where he hatched in 1997, Bourgoin and her team of carers - who believe he is the world's oldest bicephalic tortoise - can cater for his every need!

He is under constant surveillance in case he flips over, which could be fatal, and survived a bladder stone operation in 2020. His heads need periodic treatment with vaseline to stop them getting sore when they rub together.

His two personalities also generate different moods and tastes that can occasionally lead to conflict, for example over which direction to walk. "The right head is more curious, more awake, it has a much stronger personality. The left head is more passive and loves to eat," Bourgoin said, adding that one head was partial to endives and the other to carrots.

#janus #tortoise #nature #science #medical facts #animals

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Bobi (11 May 1992 – 21 October 2023) was a male purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo dog cared for by Leonel Costa of Conqueiros, Leiria, Portugal.

On 2 February 2023, Bobi was confirmed as the first dog on record to live to the age of 30, along with being the oldest dog on record to ever live.

On 11 May 2023, Bobi turned 31.

🖤🕯️🖤

#Bobi #Rafeiro do Alentejo dog #Leonel Costa #Portugal #World's Oldest Dog #Guinness World Records #Serviço Medico-Veterinário do Município de Leiria #Veterinary Medical Service of the Municipality of Leiria #SIAC #SNMV #Sindicato Nacional dos Médicos Veterinários #National Union of Veterinarians #old-aged dogs #dogs #animals

[arachnid-guts]

i finally finished this... i can die now..........

here is the reference picture, which is a poster for the movie Re-Animator (1985)

#i've been working on this all week #kinda proud of this ngl #this started as a silly funny practice #because i saw the poster on pinterest and said haha tf2 reference #then boom #aight then #i'll probably print it... #maybe.......... #anyways #re animator #reanimator 1985 #team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 medic #tf2 spy #meet the medic #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #my art

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

My heart melted seeing the Lincoln Park zoo pride, the cubs are yearlings and already getting big, they grow up so fast😭. Lomelok just went through surgery yesterday to correct a slipped spinal disc. Plz send good vibes to Chicago! I think Lomelok is a testament to how excellent veterinary care is for zoo animals, in the wild he probably would’ve died before his first birthday as he started showing experiencing weakness in his hind legs and tired easily as a tiny cub. Just wanted to share.

According to the zoo yesterday, he's out of surgery and doing well!

"The update we’ve all been waiting for with bated breath. Last night, around midnight, Lomelok fully stood up on his own for the first time! This is a huge milestone for his recovery but is one of the first literal and figurative steps in his journey. Afterward, he took a long 5-hour nap as the care team observed from nearby via camera so he could rest undisturbed.

Lomelok is currently recovering in a small space that controls the level of his activity during these critical first 72 hours."

#zoo animals #zoo veterinary care #zoo animal welfare #lion cub #lincoln park zoo #surgery #cw medical imagery

[cheekyb4lls]

how many genders are there? - tf2 animation

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #this is an excuse to not continue the emesis blue animation for a bit #tf2 medic #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #tf2 sniper #tf2 engineer #tf2 pyro #tf2 demoman #tf2 soldier #cheekyb4ll's art

[orobty]

On his 5th cup of coffee and goin for 6th! (If he can avoid leo)

#rottmnt #disaster twins #rise donnie #rise leo #animation #medic leo #<3 #to tired to backgrpnd

[kedreeva]

Well! As usual my instincts are spot fucking on. Artemis and I visited the vet today because Artemis has been acting off. I thought it might been egg binding, with how she was holding herself, but since it's been 4 days and she's still passing waste and I can't feel an egg, in we went.

The vet, who isn't my normal vet since we couldn't wait for my normal vet, looked her over, felt her up, and said well, we can start her on an antibiotic because she was pretty sure it was a GI issue. I said okay, but I'd still like a radiograph, to be sure, because I know I can't feel an egg and you can't feel an egg, but my gut says something is wrong with egg. She said okay, but all they are probably going to tell is the severity, and then they took Artemis back.

The radiograph showed an ovarian cyst, a partially developed egg that was just a yolk growing in a way it shouldn't. It was not ruptured, which is great, because that means we can probably cause it to recede with chemicals. So, Artemis is getting some depo today, again in 2 weeks, and then we'll get an implant to chemically sterilize her from here out so this doesn't happen again, since it's got a big potential to become life threatening.

So, she continues to be my lovely little problem child. Brat. Expensive little brat. I love her.

#Artemis #my pets #animal medical

[the-bees-cheese]

friendly reminder to my AFAB folks with ADHD:

your medication does not work properly when you’re on your period

because of lazy, misogynistic research practices in the testing of ADHD medications, it has only been discovered recently that hormone imbalances during your menstrual period essentially cancel out the effect of your medication.

(if you want to know about the aforementioned lazy research practices, the scientists doing the testing for adderall and vyvanse only used male mice and AMAB humans to test them on because the hormonal cycles of female/AFAB test subjects “affected test results, causing data to be inconsistent”.)

so yeah, if you feel horrible and sad and like you can’t get going while you’re on your period, that’s why :)

#tw periods #tw menstruation #tw animal testing #tw medical malpractice

[mushramoo]

I been talking to a lot of ppl w cats lately (I volunteer at an animal shelter) and I didn’t know this needed to be said but

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT DECLAW YOUR CAT.

Declawing sounds very normal to people who aren’t educated on it so let me show you what it actually is.

As you might notice from the diagram, the claw is attached to a small bone at the very end of a cat’s paw. They are fused to this bone, which on a human hand would be where your last knuckle is (the one right before your nail). When someone gets a cat declawed, they aren’t just removing the claw.

The entire last digit of the cat’s paw is removed. (See below)

This severely impedes the cat’s ability to balance itself, is extremely painful for them, and can make the cat extremely aggressive because it no longer has one of its main defense mechanisms! It can also cause many other medical issues down the line including infection, necrosis, and some cats are never able to walk correctly again. Most cats that have this done never fully recover from the procedure and are in constant chronic pain.

It is extremely inhumane and is illegal in only two states at the time I’m writing this!!!! (Maryland and New York) Cats should only have this procedure if it is a life or death situation, never just because someone finds a cat being a cat inconvenient for them. Don’t get a cat if you don’t want to be scratched or have some ruined furniture. If you want more information on this topic, I’d recommend Jackson Galaxy’s YouTube video on it, and to read up on some articles I will link in the comments.

I know I don’t usually post about these types of things, but it’s made me extremely angry to hear people mention getting their cats declawed so flippantly as if it doesn’t ruin the cat’s life, and always for an asinine reason like “they scratched my couch” or “they scratch my kids” THOSE ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS A CAT OWNER. Treat your kids and peers to treat animals with respect, or don’t get a cat.

#so sorry followers I’m just so upset about it #I want to strangle every rich white woman that comes in and laughs about mutilating their cat’s paws #or bragging about how they couldn’t find any vet willing to do it #if you didn’t know #you didn’t know. but you know now so dont ever let it happen again #pets #cat #cat info #pet information #animals #important #very important #medical procedure

[dunybuh]

Save me medic from tf2 pls be real medic

Animation I did from a panel of the comic!

#medic team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 #team fortress 2 #fan animation #2d animation #toon boom harmony #animation

[parisoonic]

He saw a bird and got distracted your Honour.

#tf2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 medic #tf2 heavy #there's a part 2 to this image which I will draw...at some point.... #i drew this at potato rez like a masochist #celebrating my 2 year gig being done and being officially unemployed with some 'fake anime screenshots' #these were so popular on deviantart like...15 years ago and i wanted to draw some so badly. so...fulfilling that wish now #DAMN i forgot to draw Sasha. imagine her mounted to the rear of the van like a bike or a canoe