HELP!! Disecting Animals in Biology!!!

[Logan]

I was an avid biology student in high school and an animal lover at the same time. For some reason, dissection never bothered me. We started with earthworms, I think, and I took two elective years of additional Biology, Anatomy and Advance Biology. We dissected frogs, fetal pigs, and even a cat. It was hard, but we learned so much, and if you truly want to enter the medical field, it is such a good basis of learning.

I say "buck up" and do what you have to do, in a respectful manner. Or do the computer version and change your career path...no vet that I know of can get by without blood and surgery.

Logan

[Desert Arabian]

But.... there are TONS of other jobs that deal with animals, put not digging in them, so don't give up quite yet with the whole animal deal!

[kingrattus]

ummm... from the info I got from the vet college, there really is only one kind of vet, & all of them do surgery, some major in dogs or cats or birds, etc. but they all do surgery, even the vet assistant has to help with surgery, because the assistants r the nurses. Maybe u would be a better zooalogest (major poor spelling), try looking into that, I'm not 100% sure what the do, but it might be better then a vet

[wolf_Q]

I was always "there" when we disected animals in biology (frog, fetal pig, earthworm, starfish, etc.) but I wasn't usually the one doing the disecting. Of course most of the boys think it's fun anyway, and won't let anyone else touch it lol. We didn't have a computer version. At least we did the disections in groups though.

I thought about being a vet myself a loooooooooong time ago. I know now that I'd NEVER want to do surgery. I've thought about the vet assistant lately. I'm going to have to look more into what is involved with that. I don't know if I'm cut out for it or not.

[lovemymaltese]

I know, I had the same dilemma. We had to disect a starfish, worm, frog, fetal pig and a cat. I couldn't watch the pig or cat. I had to do this in biology and advanced anatomy.

[pupper-lover]

I observed the disecting of animals in biology, but didn't do any of the cutting or touching of anything. When I was younger, I thought for awhile that I wanted to be a vet or a doctor. After I realized that I would have to disect animals (and people) no matter what, to be in any type of medical field (animal or people), I decided to go with my other love, architecture.

[RockyRoad]

Ok, Ok, fine I'll do it! I will have to do it, because I AM going to be a vet, and I AM NOT going to settle for a puny little job such as a vetrinry assisitant (sorry, no offense to anybody who wants/is one). I AM going to have Dr. before my name, and I might as well just go throuhg with it. I can't belive I'm gunna do it...geez, I HATE bio!! If only I could drop out of it!

[Uabassoon]

I'm sorry you think being a vet tech is a puny job. I want to be a vet tech, I think after I finish up my degree I want to go back to school to become a vet tech. I think it's a great job, you get to do so many different things as a vet tech.

[RockyRoad]

Sorry. I didn't mean to insult anyone, if anybody is insulted. I just want to do something big, and I just heard about tornado chasers! Tht would be so cool to do because I could become famous. The problem is, I want to live in Alaska and I have wanted to all my life, so I guess I would be better off snow-mobiling around looking for snowstorms and avalanches.

[Andie]

I had to:

7th grade: Worms
8th grade: Frogs
Biology I: Worms again i think and Crawfish
BiologyII: Fish, Sharks (i'm still trying to figure out how we go fresh sharks in the middle of the country) Crawfish, and Grasshoppers

If I would have taken Anatomy (thank God it was only given 1 hr and that was my band hour cuz I wouldn't have been able to do it) we would have had to do Cats and pig fetuses

I was the one who usually did the cutting cuz I was always put with the girls who were afraid to touch the things (Sorry if that insulted any1, I'm a tomboy so it never bothered me to touch them it was the cutting)