Rat dissection!

Last week in biology I learned something knew about myself, i learned that i love to direct things. At first i was a little skeptical about cutting open a rat but once I got going there was no stopping me. Some people may feel guilty about dissecting a poor innocent animal and I guess the thought of guilt passed through my mind for a moment but then it was gone again. I love the challenge of having to cut something so delicately , one wrong or aggressive move and you could damage something important. Dissection is almost like an art, you have all your different tools thats you use to create a master piece. The goal of this direction was to completely open up the rat and locate all of its inner organs and their functions. Its amazing that everything found inside the rat can be found in our own bodies. The way i think of it is the rat was already dead to begin with so by dissecting it you are actually making use of the of the animal instead of it going to waste. If we didn't use rat dissection for scientific research we wouldn't have made all the scientific discoveries that have helped and saved man kind.