[Sungirl]

It makes no difference WHAT animal they're dissecting, you just do it.

People are animals....they should just dissect a dead person....no diff...right? Guts are guts.

[Cagey]

I pinged you to this thread because I knew you would be interested in this story. I'm not very fond of cats but I understand that many people are. And, I'm more against this because I think it is basically a waste of my tax money at the high school level. But, I wonder if more people would be on your side if dogs were being dissected in this school?

[discostu]

They do in medschool. Everybody gets to learn to do autopsies. If you've never picked up a stomache and examined it closely under controlled lab conditions you're gonna be hard pressed to identify it in the emergency room (someplace all interns go and many stay) when you've got a patient that will die if you don't put his guts back together right. These early stages teach important things like how to use the equipment, and how not to be a wimp who freaks out at the sight of blood.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

As always, you assume that these people are cat haters and dissecting them means something cruel and horrible.......what about those students(since this is an honor, elective course) who will gain knowledge from this class and learn the wonders of the anatomy of a feline?

You always assume that everyone has some sinister motive against your beloved cats....... these animals are already dead - I'm sorry, but they are - and whether you want to admit it or not, kids do learn valuable information from dissecting these animals, JUST as they learn from dissecting humans when they get into medical school.......

You need to freaking grow up..........

[DB]

Guess what Sungirl, they do dissect dead people. Or perhaps you would prefer your next doctor to have only dissected a frog before working on you...

[Wondervixen]

Sungirl, humans are at the TOP of the damn food chain...Get over it!

[Wondervixen]

On the other hand, think of what you just said...Dissect a human???

That's called an AUTOPSY...They DO dissections of human cadavers IN MEDICAL SCHOOL.

She's not willing to do the dissection to get out of High School, How's she expect to GET to college?

[Uncle Meat]

People are animals....they should just dissect a dead person....no diff...right? Guts are guts.

They do.They're called cadavers.

[spunkets]

"People are animals....they should just dissect a dead person....no diff...right? Guts are guts."

That's right, but space, disposal, student mental stability and availability considerations leave the human corpses to the med students. Beside that who would donate their body to science knowing the goof offs in the local H.S. were going to get a chance to dissect them?

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

College students DO DISECT humans! However, humans are very expensive and are hard to obtain. A nice cat is a good place to start.

[Dianna]

People are animals....they should just dissect a dead person....no diff...right? Guts are guts.

First year med students do dissect cadavers.

If she didn't want to dissect a cat she ought not have taken an ANATOMY class.