diff --git a/src/main/java/noppes/npcs/client/ImageDownloadAlt.java b/src/main/java/noppes/npcs/client/ImageDownloadAlt.java
index 8d8a510b2..2274682e8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/noppes/npcs/client/ImageDownloadAlt.java
+++ b/src/main/java/noppes/npcs/client/ImageDownloadAlt.java
@@ -124,13 +124,21 @@ public class ImageDownloadAlt extends SimpleTexture
 
                 try
                 {
-                    connection = (HttpURLConnection)(new URL(ImageDownloadAlt.this.imageUrl)).openConnection(Minecraft.getMinecraft().getProxy());
+                    URL url = new URL(ImageDownloadAlt.this.imageUrl);
+                    connection = (HttpURLConnection)(url).openConnection(Minecraft.getMinecraft().getProxy());
                     connection.setDoInput(true);
                     connection.setDoOutput(false);
                     connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "image/png");
                     connection.setRequestProperty("Expect", "100-continue");
                     //connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0");
-                    connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
+
+                    // Set user agent
+                    if (isImgurLink(url)) {
+                        connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)");
+                    }
+                    else {
+                        connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
+                    }
                     connection.connect();
 
                     if (connection.getResponseCode() / 100 != 2)
@@ -175,4 +183,9 @@ public class ImageDownloadAlt extends SimpleTexture
         this.imageThread.setDaemon(true);
         this.imageThread.start();
     }
+
+    // Check if the URL is an Imgur link
+    private static boolean isImgurLink(URL url) {
+        return url.getHost().endsWith("imgur.com");
+    }
 }