So today in Anatomy and Physiology II, I officially started my two week long process of cat dissection. Our professor informed us that they paid a little more for our cats to have them already skinned. We workin' high class at STCC! We have to work in groups of 4 or 5 per cat and one of the girls I got put in a group with is currently in her third attempt at this class. We decided to name our cat Pat because at this point, we haven't felt around for "holes" and "protrusions" and what not to determine it's sex. And now that we've gotten in to it, it's very easy to tell a boy from a girl.... oh well. I simply have never understood why dissection is necessary. I would SO much prefer to just study the very handy and accurate pictures we have in our books and lab manuals. The sound and smell are worse than the actual cat laying there in front of you. All I could think of was that cartoon movie (highly depressing)(Ah haa! Plague Dogs) about the animals that get captured to have research done on them and they escape and are forced to be running from the lab people the whole time only to almost be caught in the end but drown instead.
Today, after yet another examination of said cat, I am happy to inform you, it's a boy. Our teacher informed us today that our cat's thymus is so lovely and large! Yippee.... Anyways, there will be a test on the cats next tuesday when Mr Baki will have placed stick pins in various organs on the different cats that we have to identify. And this goes on for a long time too. We get to investigate all the different organ systems in the cat.
And to think that I complained about the dang frog I had to dissect in grade school! WOOF! Or should I say........meow..........
Today, after yet another examination of said cat, I am happy to inform you, it's a boy. Our teacher informed us today that our cat's thymus is so lovely and large! Yippee.... Anyways, there will be a test on the cats next tuesday when Mr Baki will have placed stick pins in various organs on the different cats that we have to identify. And this goes on for a long time too. We get to investigate all the different organ systems in the cat.
And to think that I complained about the dang frog I had to dissect in grade school! WOOF! Or should I say........meow..........
8 comments:
That is truly disgusting!
This is one wierd and twisted post.
I am not sure how I escaped the dissecting thing in school. I never had to do it in grade school or jr high and I cut out of high school after tenth grade so maybe I just lucked out. Anyway, I have never minded the idea that much. I'm fascinated my forensics...
How would the teachers react, do you think, if you came in each morning dressed in black w/ a little veil over your face and began praying over the beast as you did your stuff? Would they freak out? I hope so. :)
Yeah, it's nasty. It's intriguing to see all the parts and stuff but at the same time it's really sick when you start to think about the cat's life and stuff....
I have talked to so many people lately that didn't have to dissect! I'm not quite sure how I got stuck doing so much of it. I also had to do a worm. It was pretty lame I have to say. But I think the whole black veil thing would be a great idea! At least it's not dog dissection, cuz then I really don't think I could do it. Seriously.
And I just realized in reading over my post, that it sounds really odd and dirty where I placed my thymus comment. It has nothing to do with the fact that it's a boy cat, but it sounds like well, it does. Anywho,the thymus is nowhere near one's man bits. Ok, I'm shutting up now......
I had to dissect a worm, a frog and a baby pig embryo between junior high and high school. I've seen a dissected cat at a science fair but never had to do that myself.
You're bumming now but just wait until you have to work on the human cadaver. I hope it's a dude!
I think I'm going to donate my body to science...who wouldn't want to check out a specimen of my calibur? HA!
Eeeew. 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' flashback.
:D
Ha ha. Nice Aaron. And yes, the human thing will be, um, horribly unpleasant! I pray I don't have to do that. Ick. The cat's been bad enough. I also learned today that we will be digging into kitty's heart now. And we will also dissect sheep hearts soon. Sometimes I feel like Frankenstein.....
Woah. I bet that cat is REALLY smelly by now. Time for a new post, Moose!
Do we need to dissect another cat just to get you to blog again?
You would have sent Chinese Slave Drivah after us by now if we were slacking so bad.
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