Have you ever dissected something?

@Mickie30 (2626)
May 9, 2007 6:40pm CST
Have you ever dissected something? When I was at school we had to dissect a bulls eye and I couldn't do it because it made me feel sick so I ran out of the class instead.
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• United States
10 May 07
Oh man, Ive dissected a lot of things! In seventh grade I dissected an owl pellet (the hair balls they cough up with bones), and a cow's eye. Eighth grade, I did a frog, a fish, a squid, a crawdad, and a worm. Eleventh grade I dissected a cat. That was the most interesting. It was a skinned cat that they had gassed. And 12th grade I dissected a shark.
@Mickie30 (2626)
10 May 07
Ewww you are braver than me there is no way I would touch that cat the poor thing that is so cruel.
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• Philippines
12 May 07
it takes so much guts to be able to dissect so many in one's life. dissecting animals is not an easy thing to do. as for dissecting a worm, that might not be easy either if the worm is still alive. we know how the worm moves thus making it difficult to make some good desirable cuts therein.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
11 May 07
yes, I have dissected things in jr high, highschool and nursing school. Frogs, Worms, Cat, chicken. it is not the most pleasant task, is it? the Cat was difficult to adjust to doing - but very informative in learning such things as the muscles.
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@Mickie30 (2626)
12 May 07
I can't believe the amount of people who have dissected a cat. I suppose when your doing a course it is a good learning experience, but personally I don't think that I could do it.
@tigerdragon (4297)
• Philippines
11 May 07
i have dissected a cadaver when i was in college taking up dentistry in my anatomy laboratory subject and i was good at it!before that i have dissected a cat and several frogs, with the frogs ,after dissecting we stitched it up again and let it go.i guess that answers your question.please, don't puke.
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• Philippines
12 May 07
i can still remember that we dissected a frog in our high school biology class. we had to do it because it was a required experiment exercise. we had to observe how the blood flows throughout the body of the frog. we had to observe most of all how the heart functions.
@sukumar794 (5040)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
11 May 07
Yes ! I have dissected so many frogs , cockroaches, lizards etc during my pre-degree scince class. It's very funny.
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@Woodpigeon (3710)
• Ireland
11 May 07
Unfortunately, I have had to! We did worms, fromgs, crayfish, and I think goldfish, as well. I will never forget how bad the formaldhyde smelled. I can still remember it very clearly after all these years. Yuck! And there was no chance of getting out of it without taking a failing grade.
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@Mickie30 (2626)
11 May 07
Thanks for your response the thought of some of the things you dissected, ewww!!!
• United States
15 May 07
In school, they wanted us to dissect a frog. I refused, and ran out of the room. I could never do such a thing to anything in this world.
• India
21 Jun 07
yeah, i have dissected frog and earthworm during my school days. I really used to hate doing it.
@urbangirl (1456)
• Australia
12 May 07
At high school in science I had to dissect a rat and a frog. I am amazed I could do it, because I couldn't imagine myself doing that now. I remember there were a few students who tried to "boycott" the class citing animal rights but they were made to do it anyway, in order to pass.
• Philippines
15 May 07
I am a mother and I cook and so I cook and have seen the inside of fish, chicken, and also frogs when I was in the province. In school, we just studied biology and not so much of dissection. In college, I had none as I took up commerce.
@aweins (4199)
• India
8 Sep 07
I Mickie, i have dissected a frog and a rat when i was in school. it was not a bad experience for me. i did it very easily and i dissected rat of three more students of my class.i found dissecting rat to be very very easy. frog was a little something but rat was very easy. i use to enjoy in that class because i use to do it very fast and then had all the free time roam and help others.
@redletha (64)
12 May 07
We did the bulls eye and later in higgh school liver and heart (all bought from the butchers). I loved seeing how things worked, wouldn't have done a mouse or frog though. A&E has been the best place I've ever worked lol
@pepz1234 (60)
• United States
16 Aug 07
I had some college biology classes behind me so I already dissected several animals like frogs, worms and cats among others. Of course, at first it was really "yucky" but then as time passed by, it was just a part of a regular laboratory class. It's quite an irony because I am a cat person and yet I love to dissect cats. It's just that outside the class, they are my pets but in class, they are just like any other specimen. Maybe, I found some way to dissociate myself every time I had to dissect them. Also, it was a good thing that the cats were already skinned so it prevents me from imagining that that is a cat. Once, I read a book where a person asked a veterinarian, "How could you dissect or kill animals when you love them?". The vet answered that that's the way science goes and in order to find new developments, we have to sacrifice a few for the benefit of the majority. The only thing that we can do is to do it in the most humane way possible. Of course, it is not verbatim, I can't even remember the name of the book, but that was the general theme of the conversation.
@Mickie30 (2626)
21 Aug 07
Hi thanks for the answer personally I don't think that I could dissect a cat I couldn't even dissect a bulls eye in school it made me feel sick and I ended up walking out of class it was horrible.