like a surgeon cutting for the very first time...

Ok... McKay looks like a big goof in this picture but thats because he is one and I finally captured it in film... HA!

This is him in his neuroscience class.  He really likes that class... and on this day they got to embalm their pet rats that they have had all semester.

This is the blood that dripped out of the rats as each student cut the diaphragm, then the lower part of the heart.  After that they put the embalming fluid into the rats heart so the fluid spread throughout the body.  During this process McKay said the rats started to twitch and become stiff.

Coooool!

This was McKay's rat.  He said it was kind of sad to see them go.  He even admitted that they were cute. He also added that when he chopped off the head and took out the brain out that the brain was really cute too because it was really little.