Class dissects LIVE dog

WTF???

Published on May 13, 2005 By thatoneguyinslc In Current Events

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I always knew the folks down in Gunnison were a little weird, but this is just sick!

Only in Utah!

Thanks for reading,
thatoneguyinslc

Comments

Dr Guy

on May 13, 2005

Maybe I am just a pussy cat, but that makes me sick!

For the next lesson, maybe he can show how to amputate a leg......his own!

Manopeace

on May 13, 2005

The dog was still alive, but the teacher said it was sedated before the dissection began.

The teacher should be sedated!

MasonM

on May 13, 2005

This is just sick.

Gideon MacLeish

on May 13, 2005

Hey, this is a great learning concept. Maybe we can combine this with the idea of removing feeding tubes from nonverbal individuals, and start dissecting HUMANS...it would be the ultimate learning experience for wannabe doctors.

I wonder if we can access Dr. Mengele's case files for this!

Dr Guy

on May 13, 2005

Sounds like a good idea. After all, the dog was non-verbal. So it must have wanted to die.

ParaTed2k

on May 13, 2005

If I may be so bold as to be the voice of agreement here.

Ok, not really with it happening at the high school level, since there are very few in the class who would gain much of value from the experience... however.

Believe it or not, this is not an uncommon practice. Med schools all over the country (and the world) do live dissections, in the very way this article describes.. for the very reason the teacher describes.

Not all of the med schools do it, but I would argue that all the best ones do.

If the animals were going to be brought back to consciousness and have to "recover" from this experience, I'd agree with the loudest objector. However, if the dog is not feeling any of it, and is scheduled for being put down anyway, what is the difference?

thatoneguyinslc

on May 13, 2005

I understand it in Med school Ted. But high school teachers arent doctors or vets. What if the doggie wasn't as sedated as he calims? Then it's just torture in my humble opinion.

Nebraskawoman

on May 13, 2005

Did any of the students get up and leave? If that had happened in my school I would have been the first out the door screw the grade for the class. That is just wrong. Euthanization of animals is supposed to be humane. Please someone, explain to me how this is humane treatment? If my child was in that class they would have been out "sick" that day. Make them do a makeup report or something, but I wouldn't want my child witnessing this. That teacher is not a vet or a doctor. If the sedation wasn't properly given that animal could have woken up and well, I don't even want to imagine what would have happened. This kind of thing should be left to Med schools.

ParaTed2k

on May 15, 2005

I understand it in Med school Ted. But high school teachers arent doctors or vets. What if the doggie wasn't as sedated as he calims? Then it's just torture in my humble opinion.

agreed, which is why I put:

Ok, not really with it happening at the high school level, since there are very few in the class who would gain much of value from the experience...

Ever so prominantly in my reply. ;~D

I agree, there is no real reason for this to go on in a high school setting, and equally right that this teacher is probably not qualified to "sedate" dogs.

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