Dead-dancing cats. Thoughts?

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http://www.scrippsmedia.com/kmtv/no...with-dead-cats-in-lab-303900931.html?lc=Smart




Just wondering your opinions. I can see how this could be perceived as disrespectful, but all I see is kids being kids (which as we know aren't always the most "mature"). I can see talking with them about respecting the cats bodies, but PETA launching an investigation is ridiculous. They were previously killed cats from shelters that were sold to a medical company for distribution to be dissected ( we dissected cats in my ap medical science class in high school). I'm pretty sure no cats were harmed in the making of this video. I was, however, kind of impressed with how in sync they were..
 
I saw that and cringed as a teacher. It was a lapse in judgement caught on camera.

There are ethical considerations when dissecting animals, as there should be. I'm not sure of the value of dissecting cats in high school, but it seems to be the norm in certain areas.

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I only read the link posted, was the teacher included at all? Or just a small group of students that started doing it and it progressed to someone saying "that's funny let's film it" while the teacher wasn't even in the room. 16, 17, 18 year olds will do things like this... Hell college aged kids would do this... Not necessarily PC, but it could've been a lot worse.
 
I laughed. I felt bad doing it, but I definitely laughed. It was a bad idea, but there have been plenty of worse ideas not caught on camera. PETA must be running out of things to do if they're going after high schooler's video from 2013...
 
squirrel15 said:
I only read the link posted, was the teacher included at all? Or just a small group of students that started doing it and it progressed to someone saying "that's funny let's film it" while the teacher wasn't even in the room. 16, 17, 18 year olds will do things like this... Hell college aged kids would do this... Not necessarily PC, but it could've been a lot worse.
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I'm not sure if teacher was present or not. But none the less- hind sight is 20/20.im sure at the time they weren't intending to be disrespectful. It was just a very catchy, well synchronized,lapse in judgement.
 
As an animal person, I find myself wanting to smack each of those students in the head repeatedly.
Also, their act was drawn out and uncreative.
 
I am not a fan of PETA's actions in the past, and they certainly won't win a fight against the use of cats for dissection lessons. As stated, they were not euthanized for the purpose of dissection. Personally, I took an A&P class in high school (was fairly new) and it involved multiple dissections of various animals and organs, including cats, which was very helpful in learning the anatomy as a kinesthetic lesson. I think this is just an immature act caught on camera. E-mail the parents, tell them they were wrong, reprimand the teacher, whatever. No different than kids traumatizing fish or worms or random critters, just that it was in a classroom setting. Was it actually confirmed that the teacher forced the students to participate, on film? I'm going to go with no, because that's a real lawsuit, while demoralizing a dead cat is not.
 
I pretty much simultaneously laughed and shook my head at that video. I might have even done a face-palm at some point... I think that the video was done in poor taste. Not because the cats would mind much (they're dead and well soaked in formaldehyde) but that people taking such courses should have at least some respect for the critters that we use to learn from. We would be completely outraged if they were doing the same with human cadavers...
 
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