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http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html

Class Dissection Of Live Dog Outrages Parents, Students
Student: 'It Just Makes Me Sick...'

POSTED: 8:12 am EDT May 12, 2005
UPDATED: 7:57 am EDT May 13, 2005

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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in most civilized areas of the world vivisection is illegal. what the h*** happened here? we had to dissect grasshoppers in high school for god's sake and i had enough of a moral objection to that.

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I think that's horrible. :-?

I don't complain about normal dissections of already dead animals, (sold for the specific purpose of going out to schools to be dissected) but something about that just seems wrong to me. Where did the dog come from?

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:o My god, whats wrong with that guy? I couldn't bring myself to disect a dead frog, let alone a live dog. That is just sick, that damn teacher should be charged with animal crulety. :evil:

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[quote name='StarGaze']I can't believe that...I wonder how Biology teacher Doug Bierregaard's digestive system works? *Shrugs* :evilbat:

Ditto!!! :evil:

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pyrless napisał(a):
in most civilized areas of the world vivisection is illegal. what the h*** happened here? we had to dissect grasshoppers in high school for god's sake and i had enough of a moral objection to that.


We did frogs and pigs and I refused. :wink:

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WHA?! Isn't there a video or something that they could have watched on how the digestive tract works? I mean food goes in poop comes out why the hell did they need to disect a LIVE animal! Also where did he get this dog? A shelter? Was it HIS dog? :-? :x

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This is sickening. I can't believe the Principal is agreeing with it and letting it go on. This teacher is one sick little man and I agree that we need to see how his digestive system works...

I wouldn't dissect pigs in my Biology class either. I said that I would get the notes or else I'd be sick all over my teacher. LOL

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