It's a good gesture. I gave CPR to an animal once in a college lab course. My instructor thought I was an idiot. I thought he was a sadist.
That was surely a better assignment than mine. I had to tranquilize the entire herd, vicerate each one and separate the contents of the GI tract from the other organs and then individually spray dry all the separate components, package each specimen and then weigh them all. Got paid pretty well, tho.
How far had the disection gone?