Disecting a cat-why?

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In A&P1 we start disecting a cat this week. Four people to one cat.:eek: What is the point? I wish we could have a one on one with the cat. I'm taking my digital camera, so I can review at home. Just wondering if you wiser students knew the purpose.

Thanks!

Cheryl Moore

We are dissecting a mink... And they smell. I don't think it's necessary or fun to dissect them. I would prefer to work on human dummy of plastic body parts of humans. Don't see the point in dissecting anything that's not the human body.

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Specializes in NICU.

We did cats, too. 2:1, we got the only female, skinny little thing. Called her black kitty, and covered her face as we worked on her.........

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Specializes in NICU.

We did cats, too. 2:1, we got the only female, skinny little thing. Called her black kitty, and covered her face as we worked on her.........

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we did cats alos aswell as a fetal pig. it helps with identifing some of the stuctures, and as said before a human is to expensive to be wasted on nurses learning:(.

4 to 1 is high, you should offer to do the dissecting or at least take turns. taking pics helps my wife did that:)

you could offer to bring in some fresh cats for them. i offered but they would not let me.wonder why:)

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we did cats alos aswell as a fetal pig. it helps with identifing some of the stuctures, and as said before a human is to expensive to be wasted on nurses learning:(.

4 to 1 is high, you should offer to do the dissecting or at least take turns. taking pics helps my wife did that:)

you could offer to bring in some fresh cats for them. i offered but they would not let me.wonder why:)

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Originally posted by mark_LD_RN

you could offer to bring in some fresh cats for them. i offered but they would not let me.wonder why:)

LMAO! Perhaps I missed my calling? "Collecting" cats for nursing school students!

Heather

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Originally posted by mark_LD_RN

you could offer to bring in some fresh cats for them. i offered but they would not let me.wonder why:)

LMAO! Perhaps I missed my calling? "Collecting" cats for nursing school students!

Heather

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I didn't get to hardly do anything. It was so frustrating. The ratio was 4:1 alright..... darn it anyway. We also have the muscle pratical where they give us some muscles that were cut from various cats. Thankfully I found a virtual cat site online. That should help. Thanks once again for letting me vent.:kiss

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I didn't get to hardly do anything. It was so frustrating. The ratio was 4:1 alright..... darn it anyway. We also have the muscle pratical where they give us some muscles that were cut from various cats. Thankfully I found a virtual cat site online. That should help. Thanks once again for letting me vent.:kiss

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Poor Fluffy :o :chuckle I'm a weirdo that found disection facinating, lol, in HS I picked a boy partner thinking I'd be grossed out-nope he was terrified of doing the disection :rolleyes: So I was excited to do the cat, in A & P we had 2 to a scrawny kitty. Where do the find those poor things!?

But I think the most beneficial, to me personally, was when we got to periodically observe the 2 cadavers another biology class was working (for "fun" if we wanted, though only a handful could handle the fun, lol). It helps to visualize it on a person. But cats are obviously easier to come by!

Good Luck-be a discecting hog if you have to to see it all :D

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Poor Fluffy :o :chuckle I'm a weirdo that found disection facinating, lol, in HS I picked a boy partner thinking I'd be grossed out-nope he was terrified of doing the disection :rolleyes: So I was excited to do the cat, in A & P we had 2 to a scrawny kitty. Where do the find those poor things!?

But I think the most beneficial, to me personally, was when we got to periodically observe the 2 cadavers another biology class was working (for "fun" if we wanted, though only a handful could handle the fun, lol). It helps to visualize it on a person. But cats are obviously easier to come by!

Good Luck-be a discecting hog if you have to to see it all :D

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originally posted by sleepyeyes

we asked our instructor, "why a cat?"

she replied, "because a human's too expensive."

my instructor told the school, you wouldn't try to teach a computor class without computers.

we do a human disection (20 students, i had the left head and neck)every 2 years and then use those cadavers for regular a&p. so we now have 5, that are "pinned" with numbers for each body system. the lab practicals are a blank sheet of paper numbered 1 - 100.

i had the best a&p instructor. :D

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