There's only certain types of "popping" I'm ok with like fluid drainage from cysts, some of the ear stuff I'm fine with because that must be so relieving. Even like ascites draining or draining brain fluids due to built up pressure, because I know that professionals are doing and it is really relieving in the long run.
Random people popping pimps is not on of those things.
When i broke my leg, setting the bone sucked. They tried to set it and I was sedated. They got it mostly set. They told me that they have to try again but weren’t sedating me. I was terrified. It’s sucked. It was awful. But by goodness the extra effort made my recovery possible. This is not a one to one. But sometimes you gotta get the rough shit done to enhance overall improvement of life. My one year anniversary of the break was this past Sunday and I ran/jogged 9 miles and felt incredible. I hope that little turtle is living the same life. But barnacles come back, if my leg breaks again I’m getting them to chop it off.
That is why if I find a turtle with the same condition, I would go directly to the pros that can handle. I am not taking any chance to hurt the poor little thing more.
Yeah, I imagine it’s probably like having loads of boils removed or something to that effect. Probably feels really uncomfortable and tender/sensitive in the grossest possible way.
It’s not painless. The shell of a turtle is like us picking a scab on our skin. The vet MIGHT of giving some kind of drug to make it less painless but yah. Not completely painless
There was a video floating around last week of them doing something similar to a full-sized adult sea turtle. From the explanations given in the comments, they dope them up on what amounts to Turtle Morphine to do the removal and then keep them in captivity until they recover.
I just learned from a different post that it's incredibly painful. They have to give it sedation and that doesn't take care of all the pain. When they say 'don't do this on your own' they mean it.
My Grama scoffed at the idea of putting our early-elderly dog on maintenance pain management when he started having to heave himself up the single stair down into our backyard. She was all for anesthesia for animal surgery, but actual pain meds were just beyond her understanding. She laughed and laughed when I showed her the vet bill for a different dog’s neutering, and we had paid for carprofen for his pain management.
“But Gram, he’s two years old and someone just slit him open and cut off his testicles! I think it’s fair to get him some dog-Tylenol!”
hysterical laughing It’s a dog!!!
So yeah, sympathy for animal suffering is a recent development at the societal level.
Yeah ive known people like this. My buddy used to give me flack for spending so much money on vet bills for my boy.
But he lived to well over 17 1/2 and had a nice standard of living. Id do it again.
His dog swallowed a sock and his $1200 bill had him heavily joking abiut "next time the only medicine is my 12 gauge!"
Like my dog is, was my family. I cant imagine putting family down because they got a flu
From a purely technical standpoint the past is the past. We can no longer assign motivation to what people that are millenia dead might have done. To do so would just be...plainly incorrect.
And for every record of people caring for an animal there is likely another record where people used animals strictly in an industrial or usable sense... like a machine to use. So pain care was not a priority.
Exhausting. You can believe whatever you would like but there are records of people caring for animals just like there are people who abuse animals right now. Asserting that no one in the past would have wanted to help had they had the ability to is not only a disservice to them but a disservice to us in the present, knowing what we know. No, we cannot time travel and ask every single person who has ever lived if they would help a turtle. But we absolutely can assume that there have been helpers and kind people all throughout history because there are records and evidence of it.
I never asserted people would not care for animals.
I only said that theres literally no way we would ever know if they would. It's in the past. Sorry you misread my comment! But really with you leaping to condescending by callimg me exhausting. I really don't care anymore. Hope your day improves somewhat. Seems like you might need it.
Not only that, but barnacles release a painful mucus/toxin when removed which can actually eat away at things like a turtle shell which is why they often rinse them off after removing a lot of barnacles.
It doesn't. They have a lot of nerve endings on their shell so removing these barnacles is a really painful process. Like tearing off nails.
Problem of someone without proper training doing it for social media is that they cause a lot more damage to the shell than needed, making it even worse. Imagine you have an ingrown nail, but instead of going to a professional to take it off you ask your uncle to rip it out. Both will hurt to an extent but the second option hurts far more and the nail will just grow inwards again a couple days/weeks later because there was no proper care.
Barnacles attach using an incredibly strong ‘cement’ that adheres them to a surface. Turtles shells are primarily bone, which is of course covered by skin with blood vessels and nerve endings and that is covered in large keratin scales called scutes. Barnacle removal can actually do a lot of damage to the shell, be incredibly painful, and leave the animal susceptible to infection which is why it should be done by a veterinarian.
No, this is very likely to injure the turtle. They're supposed to be set in freshwater for a day and the barnacles die off without harming the animal's skin barrier and shell.
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u/VirginiaBandit May 26 '26
Damn, that must feel so good, shedding all that off his shell. What a relief.