Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread

a year ago by fossilesque to c/science_memes

gravitas_deficiency 346 points a year ago

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

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mic_check_one_two 198 points a year ago

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.

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einlander 82 points a year ago

Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.

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programmer_belch 245 points a year ago

A fanart of sonic in the position of a restrained hedgehog prepared for a scan

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JargonWagon 30 points a year ago

Except had a brain tumor causing epilepsy.

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MrShankles 33 points a year ago

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

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LillyPip 30 points a year ago

MOISTURISE ME

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someguy3 24 points a year ago

"That's it I'm taping you down!"

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ChanchoManco 24 points a year ago

The bdsm community is leaking.

No pun intended btw.

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yumpsuit 1 point a year ago

Wearing a surgical drain is brave all on its own, but that makes me extra inspired!

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TeamAssimilation 12 points a year ago

Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.

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prole 11 points a year ago

I love how it's just taped down with like masking tape lol

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gravitas_deficiency 15 points a year ago

Otherwise he’d be moving so fast the blueshift would be visibly noticeable

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MonkeMischief 7 points a year ago

I hope they checked his pockets before the MRI violently pulls a bunch of rings at dangerous velocities!

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janus2 11 points a year ago

they made that mfer 2-dimensional

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SkaveRat 2 points a year ago

Singer would be proud

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Sidhean 10 points a year ago

why are they MRI-ing a filet? :3

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Sunshine 4 points a year ago

Poor Blaze doing his checkup 🤭

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rumba 2 points a year ago

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)

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XPost3000 206 points a year ago

This feels like the equivalent of getting abducted by a superintelligent alien race, being put into a machine beyond your wildest comprehension, and then probably getting a treat and sent back home where nobody will believe you

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janus2 12 points a year ago

i got a CT scan once and am a dumbass so the doctors and technicians might as well have been a superintelligent race

however instead of a treat i got a giant medical bill >:(

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elvith 150 points a year ago

My favorite is definitely that poor hedgehog, LOL

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NichtElias 71 points a year ago

Mine are the snake and the taped bird

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fossilesque 47 points a year ago

The dolphin sent me.

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idiomaddict 17 points a year ago

They really just folded that snake up

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Ledericas 103 points a year ago

funny sad fact, if a person weigh 600 or more lbs, they sometimes have to use xrays/ct/mri in the zoos that are meant for larger animals.

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philpo 45 points a year ago

No shit, I once had the chance to accompany a patient to an large aninmal hospital for an MRI.

The problem: It was so far away that the patient needed to be airlifted. Which was far beyond the capacity of regular HEMS. So they called in the military and they send a fucking CH-53 cargo helicopter. These things are huge and loud. But cool.

That was one interesting ride. Somewhat embarrassing for the patient (who was not in on weight level due to simply eating too much - patient had a massive and life altering orphan hormonal disease) but patient kept somewhat good spirits and the volunteer fire brigade did a good job blocking the view.

Nowadays human medicine has improved - you can now simply use an open MRI with specialised gurneys. They usually can take more than 400kg, sometimes 500kg.

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drosophila 15 points a year ago

Does a larger MRI produce more data than a smaller one (same data density over a larger volume), or is it the same resolution spread out over a larger space?

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philpo 22 points a year ago

It depends. MRI and to an even larger extent CT scans are "targeted" to an area. People are very very rarely scanned "totally".

E.g. you want to look at the cervical spine and therefore only examine this area. While you will also see neighbouring regions these are not necessarily full resolution (only if they can have an impact). So if the imaging run is being done for an area that is not affected much by the fat tissue it won't produce more data necessarily (a cardio MRI is a good example). If you do a abdominal or pelvis MRI/CT is normally does include all tissue and therefore will produce more data.

(Take this with a grain of salt though, while I worked inhospital for a while I am primarily a paramedic and more into repairing vital signs than radiology. While we have mobile CTs nowadays they are brain only and not my area of expertise)

There is an exception for the real complicated cases like the one I mentioned, though. As we didn't want to do the whole transport effort 4 weeks later again because another speciality found another issue the patient was indeed scanned almost completely" (with breaks in-between as that gets uncomfortable fast).

(Sadly enough the whole thing was done 6 weeks later again,indeed, as the patient had suffered from an acute stroke which later killed them. Sad story,really. Never had a chance in life)

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FermatsLastAccount 36 points a year ago

I had a patient tell me he had to go to a zoo for an MRI. I thought it was a self deprecating joke but he was serious.

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DaCrazyJamez 8 points a year ago

I learned this from Scrubs

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slappypantsgo 1 point a year ago

Obviously we should have bigger radiology machines. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to have them where you have a substantial fat population.

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Brandonazz 19 points a year ago

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slappypantsgo 0 points a year ago

I meant from the perspective of a rational person who cares about health, not an idiot that deserves to have its head chopped off in a guillotine.

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yumpsuit 2 points a year ago

And for multiperson scanning of compatible patients in a dramatically more cancerous pandemic-affected modern cohort with dwindling hospital infrastructure! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

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toynbee 1 point a year ago

This happened in Scrubs.

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sp451 85 points a year ago

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

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fossilesque 104 points a year ago

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djsaskdja 69 points a year ago

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.

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InverseParallax 77 points a year ago

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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meyotch 37 points a year ago

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.

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Mexigore 3 points a year ago

Why do you use sans instead of just saying without?

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ouRKaoS 13 points a year ago

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

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someguy3 8 points a year ago

... Who said it needs to live.

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dandelion 2 points a year ago

💀💀💀

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DoubleSpace 7 points a year ago

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

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BluJay320 43 points a year ago

Somehow I don’t think the fish consented to this..

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Juliee 20 points a year ago

We need higher res photo of Steven the fish

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fossilesque 4 points a year ago

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=683568597141353&id=100064646563264

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jellyfishhunter 15 points a year ago

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

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fossilesque 16 points a year ago

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

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programmer_belch 3 points a year ago

Looks like it's going through some reps

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ameancow 5 points a year ago

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massive_bereavement 71 points a year ago

The hamster burritos got me good.

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peoplebeproblems 64 points a year ago

Stopped asking those pesky questions now didn't it?

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treadful 26 points a year ago

Stopped asking those pesky questions about what?!?

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BluJay320 19 points a year ago

Grapes

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Nurse_Robot 10 points a year ago

Pretty sure that's a goose, not a duck

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Akasazh 10 points a year ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/goose-chasing-guy

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MonkeMischief 8 points a year ago

Peace is finally an option.

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seekpie 55 points a year ago

Burrito

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janus2 6 points a year ago

🇫 🇷 🇪 🇪 🇭 🇮 🇲

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isolatedscotch 51 points a year ago

tomorrow is monday again, folks

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General_Effort 8 points a year ago

20 ccs of lasagna, stat!

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FelixCress 2 points a year ago

He is thinking how he is going to hunt and kill all these humans, one by one.

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Mouselemming 33 points a year ago

A fucking rhino!?

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

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rickywithanm 6 points a year ago

I’m guessing they would have some sort of overhead crane to do the heavy lifting

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Taco2112 30 points a year ago

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

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philpo 8 points a year ago

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.

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krawutzikaputzi 2 points a year ago

I actually would love to be the one to intubate them!

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bennypr0fane 28 points a year ago

I don't think animals are ever okay getting CT scanned

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Churbleyimyam 25 points a year ago

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

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sirnuke 25 points a year ago

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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brbposting 31 points a year ago

hehe

Random mirror linker btw:

https://farside.link/...

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BigDanishGuy 6 points a year ago

where's the seed lebirdsky?

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brbposting 1 point a year ago

😆

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southsamurai 9 points a year ago

Gotta get the wings spread.

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its_prolly_fine 9 points a year ago

Birds have very delicate air sacs. For small birds like that constricting them can seriously damage them and cause issues breathing.

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Lyrl 9 points a year ago

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.

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its_prolly_fine 3 points a year ago

That is correct. :)

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MyNameIsIgglePiggle 24 points a year ago

Are we the bad guys?

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shadowedcross 22 points a year ago

What don't Samsung make?

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lnxtx 24 points a year ago

Good phones 🙄

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DaddleDew 22 points a year ago

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

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renzev 21 points a year ago

I can't believe nobody has posted this edit yet

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ArtemisimetrA 3 points a year ago

Congratulations! You have won The Internet today.

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h3mlocke 2 points a year ago

Pip pip!

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RustyNova 21 points a year 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

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mexicancartel 19 points a year ago

The mice got a nice pillow

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SaharaMaleikuhm 17 points a year ago

"Against their will" made me chuckle

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medgremlin 17 points a year ago

The crossovers between veterinary medicine and pediatric medicine are a lot more significant than most people like to think about. The Venn diagram isn't a perfect circle....but it's close.

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iAvicenna 13 points a year ago

that goose is gonna kill some mfs when it wakes up

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Korhaka 13 points a year ago

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.

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toynbee 7 points a year ago

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.

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TonyTonyChopper 4 points a year ago

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.

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lnxtx 10 points a year ago

A... giraffe? Are they alive?

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dutchkimble 11 points a year ago

Yeah, they’re usually found in the grasslands of Africa and a few other places in the world in addition to zoos and such.

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lnxtx 1 point a year ago

I mean giraffe from the photo.
Or it's just a head with neck 👀

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EldritchFeminity 11 points a year ago

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.

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notabot 2 points a year ago

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.

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nthavoc 9 points a year ago

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brbposting 8 points a year ago

Love how the bird is still smiling

Thanks so much for sharing!

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Asemundus 8 points a year ago

Amazing post

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HootinNHollerin 8 points a year ago

OMG

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shekau 6 points a year ago

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fossilesque 7 points a year ago

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

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wieson 6 points a year ago

I have a feeling, most of those are MRT and not CT

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bob_lemon 5 points a year ago

MRT machines are much larger than the devices shown here.

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j_elgato 5 points a year ago

That CT scanner is like a D&D magic item that lets you conjure up to 2 hit-dice worth of medicated animals....

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CheeseToastie 5 points a year ago

This made me smile! I love it 😀

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lsibilla 5 points a year ago

What do you mean against their will? Did you ask them politely?

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BuboScandiacus 5 points a year ago

Poor Sonic…

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Sunshine 5 points a year ago

The only thing animals should be forced to do!

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dandelion 4 points a year ago

they did surgery on a grape!

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Kowowow 3 points a year 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

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shalafi -3 points a year ago

First one is the Montauk Monster?!

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technocrit -13 points a year ago

Ok, now do animals being tortured and murdered against their will. Much much bigger photoset.

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nthavoc 2 points a year ago

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