Today during the animal experimentation practical , me and my coursemates get to experience on how to anesthetise the rats and mice using different chemical via IP,IM,IV and IH. I held the mice tightly while Cat injected the drug through IP and the mice was fainted not too long later. Initially , I thought the mice would wake up soon since last time during the demonstration , the rat woke up rather fast. But when more than 20 minutes was over and no signs of waking up was observed, me and Cat was getting worried. Hearing of the mice from other group was dead deepen our fear. But since the lecturer said it might took around 30minutes to 1 hour to wake up, there was nothing me and Cat could do, except gave the mice some warmth by holding it with our palm and massaged it here and then. However, the mice had not wake up after the 3 -hour laboratory session was over. I guess it already dead by now. =(
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What made today worse was that the mice from one of the group was stuck in the restrainer, with its head out of the hole. Everyone was trying to free it, but it went unsuccessfully. The only way to free it was by killing it, and then chopped its head off. But when one of the coursemates was trying to chop off the head of the mice, he crushed (not sure whether was intentionally or accidentally) the bone of the mice and the mice was removed.
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I guess today was a rather depressed day for most of the coursemates and for me as well. But since we had chosen this course, we have to accept it . This is our fate...
