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We got our dog cadavers in anatomy today. The past two weeks we’ve been learning bones, but now we actually get to start dissecting the dog. This week we’re starting on muscles and joints, mostly of the front limb. (Our anatomy lab meets for ~9 hours a week, so we’re going to be spending a lot of time with these dogs this semester!) Our dog’s a nice looking male brindle Pitt Bull (or Pitt Bull cross of some type). Today we looked at some of the external features of the body (skin, mammary glands, etc.), skinned most of the left half of our dog, and then dissected and examined the bones that connect the left front leg to the body. We cut each muscle after we examined it’s orgin, insertion and other general characteristics, and by the end we had completely removed the limb from the body.

Last week with our bone box, we went over where a handful of different muscles insert onto different bones. So, it was pretty neat today to actually get to see some of those muscles up close and personal.