Originally published by The River City Review inside the West Sacramento News-Ledger on Feb. 28, 2001

Ever wonder what the insides of an animal look like? Well, by the end of the second semester, you may find out.

The science department will soon order specimens for dissecting. Biology classes will be doing earthworms, grasshoppers, crayfish, frogs, and perch.

Some biology classes, however, will be cutting the heads off living flatworms to try to make them grow two heads. Physiology will be dissecting fetal pigs and sheep’s eyeballs. They were originally planning on a pig’s brain as well, but there was not enough money to order them.

Mr. Medina’s physiology class will also be doing the fetal pigs and sheep’s eyeballs virtually on the computer.

Students have varying thoughts about dissecting specimens.

Josh Zonneveld commented, “I don’t care, although it would be kind of nasty to see the intestines and stuff like that and it stinks.”

Ramon Gutierrez said “it’s cruelty to animals.”

Editor’s Note: The Review is a high school publication at River City High School in West Sacramento, Calif., for which Daniel Wilson wrote and edited between 2000-2004. The stories published in this category appear in their original form with the only corrections being removal of hyphens for line breaks and the fixing of typos.