Re: Have you ever dissected an animal? [like in biology clas
When I was younger, under ten I think, one of the neighborhood kids would kill squirrels and birds with his bb gun then I'd join him with some other kids dissecting them. His father was a hunter and was always dressing deer in the backyard. ewwww. So we learned a lot about anatomy early. We weren't being sick or gross, just curious about what was inside the animals and we'd get the encyclopedias and try to learn stuff [sadly did not learn how to spell well].
In high school I dissected a fetal pig, calico cat, frog, and cow's eyeball.
The thing I remember about the eyeball was that someone next to me lost the lens or something from his eye. The next day a girl I really really didn't like found it on the floor, picked it up, and was studying it when I came by and told her what it was. She freaked out. It was fantastic. Also one guy's fetal pig was really disgusting. When it was being preserved there was obviously some kind of mess up and the little piggie's blood had leaked into the abdominal cavity and coagulated, so that when he sliced open its stomach all this dark, smelly jelly goo came oozing out and he barely made it to the sink in time before smelly jelly good came out of him.
In college biology I dissected another fetal pig. I had to do it all by myself because my big tough lab partner, a star football player, got squeamish and wouldn't touch it and made a lot of gagging noises. That class was really interesting because another student had a brown recluse bite on her hand and we were tracking its treatment and progression.
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