I have to skin a CAT!

[Blackbird]

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That is soo true! Look at it like that, then in a couple years when your successful in the medical field you can look back and think of the kitty that helped you

 

[Kesta]

this my friends is opne of the many reasons why i have no intention of having any college majors that involve any type of health care. i would much rather take up law. it intrigues me and i also enjoy arguing

 

[EweSheep]

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I did this. I did this in highschool biology when i was in 12th grade. It took us quite some time to finish. We traced the circulatory system, the muscles, etc..the other organs by group- my cat was pregnant.

They got ours from the pound- not the local one. After they were euthanized.

In college, I did a fetal pig, In tech school I did a rabbit that was alive but I anesthetized it, and we did a cat after we anesthetized it also- that one came from the shelter.

I DID A CHICKEN too. I dont remember where we got those from.

Yep we did all that plus fetal pigs. Nothing wrong learning the dead animals and they were put down humanely. Too many of us breed cats or dont care about the feral cats and bringing down the numbers is hard work.

As long they are not raising cats or animals just for lab purposes, I dont have a problem with it. Whether the animal had to be butchered (pregnant or not), the butcher place usually donate the parts to the college pre vet courses (like ours at Black Hawk College) and we did learn alot. Yes its shocking but its worth the course and education we need to learn about animals and why they are different or whats similiar to humans.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I did that in Biology II class in high school. It was really interesting (but I enjoy science). We got extra credit if we could get the skin off in one piece. The cats came from a shelter and had been humanely euthanized.

We also dissected piglets, sharks and a sheep (a student brought a stillborn lamb in, and the science teacher jumped at the opportunity). I learned a lot!

 

[Kesta]

if in science i am ever required to dissect anything. i will take the even if i disected i would puke! im just very against dissection and too queasy to do it myself. (this is me if i ever dissected a frog or any other animal )

but there would be puke

 

[redhen]

i didnt read the other posts, but i wanted to say...what does a cat have to do with nursing? okay, i can see if you were going into the vet field..but, a cat for being a nurse for humans? it just dosent make sense to me....i think they should use cadavers if they want you to disect something...it will be the human body you will be working on as a real nurse...why not give you the knowledge now? BECAUSE, i worked as a cna for many years and you would be amazed at the squemish nurses i came across!.

...i was always like..um... pick another profession maybe?...

i feel a cadaver would be the way to go...honestly..when are you going to need to work on a cat as a nurse???

 

[monarc23]

What bothers me is why can't they bring in animals that can then be used to feed someone. If all you do in those classes is look at the muscle groups and organs why not bring in fresh rabbits, fresh chickens fresh whatever (thawed, or anethsitised) and then butcher them how needed to learn and then wala dual purpose....learning and food.

Disecting cats just makes me sad.... im sure they rarely ever do dogs cats are more despensible eh?

Though if the cats were put down for the purpose of old age, or shelters over filing i guess hten the poor things have purpose. However if they were killed JUST for this scientific thing, I have a problem with that.

also wouldnt a pig make more sense? Thier organs from what I've been told are most closely to a humans body organs.....just would make more sense to me...and again...PORK later on! LOL

 

[monarc23]

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yep i agree it makes me sad *pouts* LOL

 

[Beekissed]

Doctor: "Nurse, can you give me the catgut? I'm preparing to close."
Nurse: "Yes, Doctor. (Thinking: "Gee, am I glad I dissected that cat in nursing school! Now I know what cat guts look like!")

 

[deb1]

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The cats we used in high school were preserved in formaldehyde, so eating them was out of the question. Also, unless the students worked in freezers, I am uncertain how they would keep the meat from decaying so that they could give the remains to the poor.

I also think that a human cadaver would be more appropriate for a nurse. I am uncertain why human cadavers aren't used. Are they hard to get?