Everything You Wanted to Know About Live Decapitation

Over at Pre-Med School Blues, Jennifer gets busy expunging the lab of rodents past their sell-by date. It, uh, ain’t for the squeamish:

i then scooped the body over the sink – upright – and collected a vial of blood from the quickly pooling dark redness at the top of the neck. vial collected, i tipped the body upside-down to drain into the sink along with copious amounts of running water. then the rat was passed to another co-worker that extracted slices from the liver, spleen and both adrenal glands. the head went in another direction and was harvested for the valuable story its’ brain would tell.

Thank goodness there are people on the planet willing to do that sort of thing. And to blog about it. I think back so fondly on my rodent-killing-free liberal arts education.