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BlAzInIt4:20
07-31-2007, 03:54 AM
I have never dissected an animal. And wonder if it was co0ol? or just wrong...
Blitzed
07-31-2007, 04:08 AM
Fetal Pig, squid, Lampray Eel, Pigeon, Frog, Shark, I always found it interesting.
BlAzInIt4:20
07-31-2007, 04:11 AM
oh how was the shark? that sounds interesting..
ghosty
07-31-2007, 04:33 AM
Dissected a fetal pig.. not a pleasant experience but not terrible
yeah i had to disect a pig too... supposedly pig fetuses are the closest thing anatomically to a human fetus you can legally get to disect in schools and thats why they use them
happiestmferoutthere
07-31-2007, 04:36 AM
Yes... forgive me:sadcrying.... I had to dissect a cat when I thought I wanted to go into nursing. In Anatomy class. They came from the local pound. I had a hard time doing it but I have always been way too empathetic for my own good.(Empathetic over a dead cat,no less!) It really was interesting but , I couldn't separate the kitty from the dissection. I couldn't even hurt a dead cat so I knew I couldn't go into a profession where I might have to hurt someone. Crazy,huh?
That being said my lab partner absolutely loved it and she even named the cat Lucky.
Blitzed
07-31-2007, 04:46 AM
oh how was the shark? that sounds interesting..
Yeah it was cool, did it in Zoology class in highschool. It was pregnant as well.
birdgirl73
07-31-2007, 04:56 AM
Yes, I have. Many kinds. I find it tough to do emotionally. But I do believe dissection is important to the teaching of science. I'm a second-year medical student or will be in three more weeks. In first-year, we dissected human cadavers. To learn anatomic structures, you have to see and identify them.
venus_night
07-31-2007, 05:03 AM
i've had to dissect a frog 3 times and this past semester we did a shark, crawfish, cricket, frog (my 3rd time), sea star, and a rat. there was a couple more but those are the ones that stick out in my mind, especially the rat. the one my group got was pregnant with 12 babies, all of which were about ready to come out. what a downer. :(
stinkyattic
07-31-2007, 12:29 PM
I've dissected SHITLOADS of critters both for my Biology-heavy Fisheries Management degree, and for subsequent employment.
The most interesting was a mink (good way to use the by=products of fur farming since no one eats weasels). The professor proclaimed that my dissection was surgically neat, lol.
The ones I've done the most of are Pacific codfish, to do stomach-contents checks and take otoliths (ear bones) for ageing purposes.
It is a very important learning tool if you are doing it with well-educated guidance. Otherwise you're just hacking shit up.
Nation_1ne
07-31-2007, 12:35 PM
I've dissected nothing before. I don't think I could either.
zino11
07-31-2007, 12:59 PM
frogs birds snakes and a worm if that counts most of was for school but the bird was like when i was 5 on my own time:wtf:
dean0000
07-31-2007, 02:06 PM
Ive never dissected a whole animal but I have dissected a pigs heart.
LuckyG
07-31-2007, 11:13 PM
I can't even dissect bugs. We were supposed to do a pig in Grade 8 science but I got to be excused from the class. Unfortunately I came back in just as the teacher was trying to pull the knee socket apart and the sucking noise it made haunted me for a long time.
I find theatrical gore very entertaining, but the slow, methodical stuff like surgery videos and such I just can't handle - unless I'm the one who's hurt. Personal gore has no effect on me - I'm rather cheerful when I have blood pouring out of a headwound or a nasty gash or burn.
Skrappie
07-31-2007, 11:22 PM
Only a few times in school. During camping though i have cut up my own meat. Oddly enough the only time i find it emotionally disturbing is when it comes to fish. I always have a hard time hurting fish for some reason. Go figure.
Storm Crow
08-01-2007, 06:55 PM
I've lost count of how many I've dissected! I've raised chickens (chicken dinners). I was a bio major first time around in college and the lab assistant. As a kid I fished a lot, and Dad was too squeemish to clean his own fish! Second time around in college, I was a psych major, but did work/study as the bio lab assistant (again). They had a freezer full of dead critters waiting for processing. I skinned them, and stuffed them, cleaned up the skulls, preserved their organs, etc. (Incidentally, they were road kill- no animal was killed for our collection.)The freezer was empty by the time I left school. Even stuffed a skunk! (bio smells don't bother me much- but some chemical make me feel ill!) Being a shameless pagan, I thank each animal for their gift to me and then dissect/butcher them without any hassle.- Granny:hippy:
S.W.I.M. 504
08-01-2007, 07:04 PM
im not jeffrey dahmer but i find it interesting. i like to see and understand how the organs works.
chronicnhash
08-01-2007, 07:12 PM
When i lived in BC i dissected a huge coho salmon, that was pretty cool. Cant say i've dissected anything else, but i guess i have to cut up the fish i catch to eat..:jointsmile:
tha del sound
08-02-2007, 10:43 AM
i dissected a pig once. i got extra credit because my partner and i were the only group to get the brain out successfully. it was an interesting experience.
KingsBlend420
08-02-2007, 11:41 AM
I disected a pig fetus my senior year of high school, it was fucked up.
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