Eggs and Bacon....Minus the Eggs

Have you ever seen roadkill?? Do you remember the feeling you get when the roadkill crunches under the wheels of the vehicle that you are in?? I know that it is gross, but that is the only thing that I could compare my "experience" to.

I have to take Biology two this year because I took Biology one last year. We were not required to disect anything my first year because the teaacher had something of a weak stomach. I thought for a while that I must have been lucky because I got to skip out on disecting frogs. Well I am not as lucky as I thought....and it wasn't a frog this time.


We were required to disect a fetal pig. DISGUSTING!!! I almost fainted the first day that we worked on it. But anywho....during the disection, we had to locate all of the major organs and arteries. We had a packet that outlined what we were looking at and how to identify the different parts of the pig's body. It also gave a detailed description of how to make the incisions, what tools to use, and where to and not to make the incisions.


I was paired with the only boy in my four-person class. Boys are gross and immature when it comes to cutting things up and grossing girls out. Well, I was VERY grossed out.


We bagan by getting a pig from the bag and putting it in a disection pan. Then we were let loose as far as the "process" went. I thought that I was doing okay, but then we were to make our first incision.

Through this incision, we were to locate certain things in the mouth and touch certain parts of the tongue. Well, when something has been bathed in fermaldahide for so long, it is hard to cut it. It was so hard to see the back of the mouth that we had to break the jaw to see what we were looking for. Like I said, it was VERY hard to cut...and when your partner is making pig noises, pointing out nasty things about the pig, siging pig songs, talking about hunting experiences, and saying , "we should call him Wilbur!" it is EXTRA disgusting.


The rest of the class time and today's class time went pretty much the same. I would tell my partner where to cut, I would look down at my paper while he cut it and I would hold my stomach. Then I would ask about certain body parts while still holding my stomach....I pretty much held my stomach and starred at the paper for as long as I was able. Because a drawing of a pig is much more pleasant than an actual pig.


In closing, I would not advise any one of you to go disecting animals. Not that this would be a choice that most of you have to make. (Oh yeah...and the best part about all of it was that for lunch on both days that we disected, we had pig-based food for lunch. Great huh?! I think that they planned that one!)