Dissections! and other weird stuff
 

so as I sit here my anatomy class is getting ready to dissect a cat. honestly, it makes me queasy cause i love kitties :( but i have to do this to pass the class...


what sort of activities were in your schools lesson plans that made you go... "blegh!"?

Your class has to dissect a cat?! WTF?! D:, that's messed up. I love cats too, so I could never dissect one. Even if the cat were dead @[email protected]

But the only thing that I had to dissect was an owl pellet when I was in middle school. And the whole class smelled really weird >.<

Though in my Chemistry class, we had to work with sulfur at some point. And it smells absolutely HORRIBLE!!! Thankfully we didn't have to use it that often. But it made the class smell, well, horrible as well. But at least my class was the first Chemistry class of the day, so it wasn't that bad. Either way, sulfur smells bad @[email protected]

the only thing i would dissect is a frog! or a snake! i cant do it on cats! and more.. to dogs!

*shudder* Why a cat? Doesn't your teacher know that...you know, people in the class MIGHT be a little touchier about cats than other animals? Why not a frog? If it absolutely must be a mammal, why not a slightly more "traditional" fetal pig?

Ugghhh, that gives me the creeps...and now I wanna go hug my cats. ;__;

I luckily haven't had much in my schooling that has really bothered me - I did a rather nontraditional kind of thing in high school and so far all my college education (which hasn't been much) has been distance learning (which I really do not enjoy - I have the inability to take online class deadlines seriously, which is odd, since I can take online contest deadlines seriously...but anyway), so there hasn't been a lot of hands-on stuff involved. One thing that did strike me as odd, though...in my critical thinking class, we were once directed to an online museum of documents about Hitler. It was an exercise in letting go of bias and determining bias.
...I was one of the few who could see that it was there to inform, NOT to worship. It was sad. I kinda expected more of college students. :no:
...also sad is that I was one of the youngest people in this class.

I'm going to be dissecting a frog soon in my biology class. I love frogs, don't get me wrong, but I never really had a problem with doing it until I found out that the frogs are raised to be disected. Basically, they are killed just for humans to rip it apart and play with it's insides. D:

I wish that teachers would offer computer dissections instead. It would save a lot more animals, and people won't have to rip open a poor animal D:

We had dissections in my biology class. I couldn't do most of them. My friend had passed away towards the beginning of the year, so I was really weird about being around dead things. My teacher was nice enough to just let me write reports instead.

They can't "make" you do it to pass. They have to have something that does not involve cutting an animal open. I went to the school board and they just gave me a work sheet to do instead. I refused to cut open a cat and I do not think that they should kill animals just to have people "learn" from it. There are a lot of alternatives.

Through vet school they had us dissect mice, rats, gerbils, chickens, fish, worms, starfish, and baby pigs. They had us just watch surgeries on cats and dogs as opposed to killing them. I still think it's wrong to kill an animal with no reasoning behind it though. I don't even eat meat though.

Was it a pregnant cat? We did that in our class a few years back.
Goat heart, cow eye, frogs, rat head.

Grown mammals prepared for dissection generally do look like something out of a horror story. I've seen them in one of my science geekery catalogs - yes, I could buy all kinds of preserved dissection specimens if I wanted to from there. And, as full-color catalogs tend to do...they have photos. That section is really, really...just lovely. Makes me thankful they're far, far away from me - I've had nightmares about some of them. x__x

But wow. That's...that's incredible about the football coach. Oh, for THAT to have been caught on tape - you could have sent it to America's Funniest Home Videos or something similar and made a small fortune. xD

I never had to dissect anything back in my school days. but back in Jr high school I did watch some normal students dissect a frog. there was no smell to it and I thought it was kind of cool back then. but I would never ever dissect a cat are dog I would say hell no fail me right now dammit lols at self.

well the cats we use come from shelters that couldn't find them homes and so they got euthanized... but still it was tough. we used the cats because they have similar muscular and venous structure to humans.

buuuut i hear one of the other classes had to cut the head off of a live frog for their muscle conductions lab and the teacher drilled through a turtle's shell in another one :O i was like omg!!!

Ugh I don't like dissecting anything. I sat out and did work sheets when it came time to dissect a frog in biology. The next year I took oceanography not knowing there would be a fair amount of dissecting. My teacher talked me into staying for that portion of class telling me that my partner could be the one cutting. Since we were dissecting mostly starfish,sand dollars, worms and the like, it was not so bad.

I don't even want to get into having to dissect a mammal. I use to work at a veterinary clinic as a kennel attendant. I saw more euthanized animals then I would of liked.

I have to dissect a cat next month for my anatomy final,
i love dissecting, though,
it's really interesting.

Not that i've dissected a whole animal before,
I've only done a sheep heart, a cow eye, and a pig brain so far.

it wasn't so bad once you got into it... just smelled awful. and the coagulated blood made me gag alot.... i named our kitty uncle fester >.<

I've had to dissect an owl pellet. It was nasty. There bones and other crap in there, and the whole room smelled disgusting. In 7th grade, some people did an online frog dissection thing, but I didn't do it because we didn't have time.

We dissected a frog last year. I thought it was cool, but also super frustrating. My lab group was a girl who had no clue what the hell she was doing, a girl who kept saying it was "icky", and a girl who threw a temper tantrum about "the poor froggy" and refused to do ANYTHING, even take notes.

Thankfully it wasn't a graded lab.

We dissected squids in elementary school, but we were too young to really learn much from the lab. I also remember a shark dissection that my 6th grade teacher did. THAT was cool.

I've dissected all kinds of things: Frog, fetal pig, cat... human cadavers -- I didn't so much dissect them, but got to poke around a cadaver after the medical school students had already done most of the dissection. :yes: I got to see muscle separations and all that good stuff. It was quite an interesting experience.

I also got to go see several autopsies one day. Even one that had been in the river for a few weeks. That one was bad... :sweat:

And though I love cats, I didn't have a problem dissecting that cat. My lab partner and I even named the little guy. I guess I'm just not squeamish. The reason why cats are chosen to be dissected is because they have similar musculature to humans/many of the same muscles. The organ placement is different, true, but it was a great learning experience.

We just watched our science teacher disect a froggy on the overhead today. It was disgusting. :gonk: And she didn't wear gloves. And it was my science teacher's birthday. Now I have do it with my lab partner tomorrow. Ugh. I'm bringing gloves.

i also had to ddissect a cat so dont feel alone and a frog and a well other cute animals my favorite was the fflower

Ive had to disect a sheeps eye, and a sheeps heart. Nothing other than that. Though, technically I missed the heart because the band had an all day practice that day, and I was in the band.