Jiyoon's+Cat+Dissection

=Cat Dissection= [|Inferior vena cava] [|Superior vena cava] [|Cat pictures] Inferior vena cava May 22 - 30 By Jiyoon K, Angeline P

=Reflection: =

When Iheard that we have to dissecting the cat, I was so scared. I am not good at dissecting, and I really don't like to dissecting. When we dissected the sheep heart or any other things, I didn't see the whole body of animals, so I was fine with dissecting. However, in the cat dissections, we have to bring the cat, and dissecting cat! I felt so bad for the cat; the biggest problem wasn't the touching the cat! The worst thing was the smell! Cat smells so bad,and I couldn't handle the smell.

We worked cat dissecting for almost 2 weeks. It is the unforgetable time! We used some cat dissection book to dissecting. But that book didn't really helped alot. They have clear picture, and labeled, but some parts didn't labeled in the picture. They explained, and gave the instructions. We should read through all the instructions, and should followed it! Actually, we shoud get through lots of things, but we spent lots of time to read through the books and kept the track of the dissecting. Smells of cat were getting worse, so it was hard to concentrated on the dissecting at the end. But our group worked so hard and we did good job! At the last day of lab, we saw the other group's baby cats which were in the mommy cat. I was suprised that little cat has fur, paws and they look like real big cat.

Best thing during the dissection was we didn't have to work on the lab book pages or any other paper work! If we should worked on the paper work, we couldn't follow the directions that Mr. Orr gave. I'd love to not to have any lab book pages. Taking picture of the dissection was better than working on the lab book pages or packets. This dissection is unforgettable, and I really didn't want to do this dissection. Again, I felt so bad for all the cats we used in the lab :(