Quote Originally Posted by karley View Post
Just throwing this out there: I'm a huge animal lover, have had a dog or cat in the house since before I could talk. However, dissection was the most interesting, and down right fun section of biology for me. I volunteered to dissect a pregnant cat and was enthralled with it. Now that may just be my personal fascination with figuring out how things work, but I loved it. In all of my high school level classes there was always an opportunity to opt out of dissection or just be a passive observer, rather than actually doing the cutting. It seemed to work well for the more squeamish of the class.
Despite how well I think of dissection and it's influence as a learning tool, the method of procurring fetal pigs is somewhat horrific. (kind of a long explanation, I'd suggest looking it up if you're interested in how it all goes down) However, I wouldn't give up the opportunity to dissect for anything, I feel as though it has been invaluable to my education.
it is in fact interesting. But did you ever wonder where that cat came from?