I'm sick to my stomach! Live dog dissected!

[QueenScoopalot]

http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html
Class Dissection Of Live Dog Outrages Parents, Students
Student: 'It Just Makes Me Sick...'



A biology class lesson in Gunnison, Utah involving the dissection of a live dog has outraged some parents and students, according to a report.


"I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal," Biology teacher Doug Bierregaard said.

Biology teacher Doug Bjerregaard, who is a substitute teacher at Gunnison Valley High School, wanted his students to see how the digestive system of a dog worked.

Bjerregaard made arrangements for his students to be a part of a dissection of a dog that was still alive.

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

With the students watching, the sedated dog's digestive system was removed.

"It just makes me sick and I don't think this should go on anywhere and nobody's learning from it," student Sierra Sears said.

The teacher said the lesson would allow students to see the organs actually working.

"I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal," Bierregaard said.

The school's principal, Kirk Anderson, said notifications went to parents explaining the dog was going to be euthanized and that the experiment would be done with the dog's organs still functioning.

The teacher is standing by his decision and calls it the ultimate educational experience.

Principal Anderson said he supports the lesson and it will be allowed to continue because the students are learning.

The dog used in the experiment was going to be euthanized despite the class project.
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Email address to complain can be sent to the school through this address...though I'm sure there's plenty of yelling going on already.
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[Sassy_luvr]

WOW!!!why does the government let him get away with this? it is so sad that even the principal will let him do this 2 a live animal sedated or not!!!!! he should be arrested along with the principal 4 letting him get away with it! i also think it should be against the law! how can some people be so mean?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[IRescue452]

sick, I'd pull my kids from that school

[Lady's Human]

Eviscerate the teacher and see if he feels any pain? After all, he's just going to die sometime anyway.

[moosmom]

The school's principal, Kirk Anderson, said notifications went to parents explaining the dog was going to be euthanized and that the experiment would be done with the dog's organs still functioning

So, let me get this straight...this idiotic teacher thinks that because the dog was scheduled to be euthanized ANYWAY that it's okay to dissect it???

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

Well then, THAT just changes everything now doesn't it? NOT!!!


I hope the hell he gets fired for it. That is disgusting!!!

I also hope the principal and the Board of Education are held accountable.

[PJ's Mom]

Is there some way the public can contact the school administrators and complain about this? I'll be the first one to call them.

EDIT: sorry, I see the address now.

[Jadapit]

That's so wrong! What is the matter with people?

[luvofallhorses]

Originally posted by Jadapit
That's so wrong! What is the matter with people?

Ditto!

[Oggyflute]

That is the saddest and most disgusting thing I've read in the doghouse. It says a lot for mans respect to other creatures on this planet.

[G.P.girl]

i don't even kow what to say about this. and as mean as it sounds. i hope that man who did it somehow feels the same pain and suffering that poor dog felt.

[LorraineO]

there are no words to describe my outrage... I would torch that school ANd the teachers house!!!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Good Lord! What is going on in this country?

Where is the SPCA? and PETA?

No wonder children feel it's ok to shoot others. They are being taught cruelty is ok!

When I was in high school our teacher had a cat (already dead) for us to dissect. I refused and I refused to do the frog thing too!
Suprisingly, I still passed.

This is just disgusting!!!!!!

[QueenScoopalot]

Originally posted by momoffuzzyfaces
Good Lord! What is going on in this country?

Where is the SPCA? and PETA?

No wonder children feel it's ok to shoot others. They are being taught cruelty is ok!

When I was in high school our teacher had a cat (already dead) for us to dissect. I refused and I refused to do the frog thing too!
Suprisingly, I still passed.

This is just disgusting!!!!!!

Same here...the biology teacher knew I adored cats, and excused me from the cat dissection. I came close to passing out anyway, and even years later shudder at the thought. I really thought that classroom dissections were for college students, and especially ones in the medical profession....and that computers had taken over for the 'hands on' approach. Sadly it seems I'm wrong on that one. I wonder how many parents actually saw the so called notice stating this was going to occur in that class?

[caseysmom]

My daughter in jr. high is disecting a lamprey tomorrow, so far she has disected chicken wings and things like that. She wants to go into the medical field so I am sure it will be worse, but doing this on a living creature is just so wrong.

[G.P.girl]

I found an update on the story. as for normal dissection in schools, i am generally against it, but i will be participating in the dissection that are comgin up in my biology class becaus ei am going to be a vet and i've known that since i was about 10 years old and i don't think it's realistic for me to become a vet without ever dissecting anything. if i were going to do anything else though i would skip it.


SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A Utah high school expressed regret on Thursday for the vivisection of a stray dog as part of a biology lesson.


Some parents and students complained after a substitute biology teacher at Gunnison Valley High School took eight girls, aged 16 and 17, to a local veterinary clinic on Tuesday to watch abdominal dissection on a dog under general anesthetic. The lesson was aimed at teaching students about the digestive system.

"It just makes me sick and I don't think this should go on anywhere and nobody is learning from it," student Sierra Sears told local TV channel ABC 4 news.

Donald Hill, assistant superintendent of the South Sanpete School District, said: "This shouldn't happen again. Our schools will not participate in this again. We don't condone this."

Vet Tom Anderson said the incident, reported in local television and newspapers, had been blown out of proportion.

"It was about a three-minute procedure involving abdominal surgery. It was done under general anesthetic. It was an aggressive and abandoned dog. It was not fit to be adopted," Anderson said. The dog was put to sleep after the procedure.

The school said permission had been sought and obtained from parents of the students, and that two students had exercised their right to opt out of the visit.

"All they did was view it. They did not remove or dissect any parts. It was not barbaric," said assistant principal Trevor Powell. "(But) we will have to find a better way next time."

It was not clear what action, if any, would be taken against the substitute teacher, who has not been named.