DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU WOULD NEVER DISSECT AN ANIMAL!
Every once in a while, Mike still shocks me. I was rushing around last night, grabbing all I needed to head out for Bible Study....when I was stopped DEAD in my TRACKS.
There on my coffee table was a cat. Mike dislikes cats. He's said we'll never have a cat in our home, BUT there on my coffee table was a cat - a preserved biology specimen. The cat is quite fascinating. All his inner parts are labeled. If you can just get over the shock of seeing him, he's quite educational.
Betsy, one of my Bible Study ladies, teaches Biology. What a great thing for the kids to see in "real" life....because you KNOW I've managed to graduate 3 children with NEVER dissecting a worm, a frog, an eyeball, or a pig..... It took me months to work up to making fish prints and that only became "ok" when Mike pointed out we'd caught lots of fish and cleaned them and this was no different.
Mike had the kids close their eyes and come into the living room for a SURPRISE...I'm only posting photos that don't show vivid details.
The looks on those faces are - priceless...
5 comments:
Wow DeEtta! Send your kiddos on over to me. We have recently dissected an earthworm, a crayfish and a perch. This Friday we will be doing the frog. We have done a cow, pig and sheep heart in the past as well as a shark. Of course, I do have a degree in Biology so all this facinates me! I had to laugh try to imagine you finding a dissected cat so unexpectedly! LOL!
It really is a great learning experience but I have never done a cat!
Um. YUUUUCCCCCKKKK!
Nolan's face in that first picture is priceless!
Jamie Z.
YUCK! I can't say if I could handle a cat or not. We did the eyeball and that seemed bad enough.... I did post graphic pictures of the cow's eyeball on my blog (LOL), but I can see why you wouldn't want to post pics of dissecting a cat.
Just to clarify - WE didn't dissect the cat.
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