Posted on 08/13/2008 9:41:24 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
@home?
geesh ... much ado about nothing.
Ya clean fish at home.
Ya prepare raw chicken at home.
Being upset over the dissection of a canine carcass is emotional anthropomorphism run amuck.
It may tug at your hearstrings, but what’s wrong with it?
Cue Dr. Demento!
Dead puppies
Dead puppies
Dead puppies aren’t much fun.
I agree.
It was found that the puppy was already dead. She didn’t strangle it.
I’d give the girl an A for doing it. I would get sick, but clinicals were never my strong point.
So how do they think veterinarians learn about the animals they will be working on?
My daughter wants to be a vet. She is dissecting a frog this year and understands as much as it hurts to see a dead animal, it will help her later in helping animals.
My puppy died late last fall
He’s still rotting in the hall
I do not have a problem with it being a dead puppy. I wonder how much they learn doing it at home instead of in the biology lab at school with the instructor.
or..How do you think MD’s learn about the humans they will be working on?
Yellow mellow custard..........
Digital camera. Digital camera. Digital camera.
Yeesh. I’m afraid to take any film to develop. Used to work in a 1hr photo lab and one of the other employees went through..every..single..picture..looking for something to call the police about.
This was at least ten years ago too before all these citizen photolab police things started making headlines.
Maybe he should have - I think it would be more responsible to use a freshly euthanized carcass rather than finding some maggoty roadkill that may be a vector for disease.
Agree, and I do not want my child bringing home some rotted road kill to dissect in my kitchen:)
HAHAHAHA!
Exactly! Cadavers are excellent donations and people have to look to learn. A computer program only goes so far in teaching and things such as texture and consistency are just as important. A healthy organ feels one way, a diseased organ feels another.
Why is this an issue?
I remember we did such things in HS....
Wasn’t puppies. I think it was frogs.
Seems like we had to put them to sleep, but not kill them, we wanted to see their hearts beating.
I agree...especially under these circumstances. As one of the staunchest dog lovers you'll ever meet, I would aver that one of the most common, and most damaging things dog owners can do to their canines is to project human thoughts and emotions onto their dogs when interacting with them.
Having said that, for those of us in western civilization, dogs and horses occupy a very special place in our lore, our history, our wars, our exploration and discovery of new lands, our hunts and recreation. For many of us there are special bonds that are quite unique between humans and these two critters, and I think it's fair to say they should receive particular consideration for their long association with Homo Sapiens.
Nothing at all wrong with what this girl did; it's not like she did a Dahmer and played with the bones, drool running out of the corner of her mouth. Dogs are euthanized all the time, and I would imagine, someday when this girl is running a succesful veterinary practice, she'll look back fondly on the anonymous dog who may have been unwanted, abandoned and neglected in life, but whose very bones fascinated her with their complexity and function, and inspired her to learn and to marvel at the wonder that is inherent in each of God's creatures.
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