An Idaho science teacher reportedly fed a sick puppy to a snapping turtle, now the school is...

This teacher was not teaching anyone to treat wounds. He is alleged to have done something that could only motivated by sadism. My opinion is that he is scum.

(On a side note, my undestanding is that animals are still used in medical training.)

I follow tour reasoning, certainly, and, interestingly, if one can call it that, I've also encountered that, which I actually found quite shocking for many reasons. However, to illustrate, yrs ago, I'd interviewed before my disability at an osteopathic med school, I didn't get it, I never fit their personality tyoe, I'm afraid, quite honestly, I always found clinical program interviewers tiresome on many levels, infantile at times, positively, in fact. Anyway, while I'd been there, I'd been told that canines from shelters ormoounds being euthanized, which I'd always been quite frankly nauseated by the practice of, actually, unless ipdone by a veterinarian in the case of very real, serious, genuine illness, of course, were evidently still being used there for anesthesiology practice by clinical students. Now, being a scientist, in could quite comprehend the reason, though my human sensibilities obviously found the concept and practice to ne a frank mix of the shocking, combined with he positively revolting. I understood on one intellectual level, however, I just simply couldn't reconcile the practice on a purely emoting level, you understand. I gather that, in most instances, not all, however, most, that such practice methodology has, in large part, thankfully, now been supplanted by robotic and/or computer based approaches, when needed to train for use of an anesthesia machine. Learning to use one is quite frankly extremely involved, as well as incubation, I never got to do it, I was doctoral level allied health, we shut my license of sevl urs ago due to my disability, though others, in other residency programs, were in fact allowed to do such enrichment training, I never got that chance, which, admittedly, irked me considerably at the time, as I'd wanted to get involved with such things on a more advanced levels. I'd helped with cutdowns for doing central venous lines many times, which can be quite delicate though I was never allowed to actually place one, !erepy assist, once again, which I also found similarly irksome, tiresome, banal, and repetitive. My directors told me that, formerly, those in my field doing residency once were allowed to do such things, as well as phlebotomy, as well as having IVs, though only in residency, not outside interestingly, one state still let's those in my field actually teach conscious sedation for anesthesiology, which is what my field typically uses, along with nitrous oxide, tough I wasn't dental, and please understand, that was sevl yrs ago, as I'd said, my license was shut off due to disability, as I'd mentioned, a long while ago, I'm afraid. Also, yrs earlier, as an undergrad, a masters or PhD student assisting a faculty member in undergrad bio where I was used a rat, or hamster, to demonstrate the effect of an enzyme on certain tissue, that needed to be surgically removed from the animal. She asked me to hold a beaker inverted with chloroform soaked into some gauze at the base over the head of the creature while she did it. I, revolted at he concept of he idea abjectly refused, which, I was surprised to note, corresoondingly surprised her, I guess she thought I was too tender hearted, needless to say, I found the procedure quite disturbing, hough I had to watch as it was part of the course, unfortunately. Then, in another instance, on another occasion, the faculty member shed helped, e undergrad bio instructor, pitched a frog, in the cruelest way I'd ever seem, by quite literally doing something to the poor animal, that gave her no qualms, however, once again, quite frankly appalled me. I'd had to do gross anatomy training for my field with full cadaveric dissection, which I of course did, though that was obviously different, as we all, all of us in the class, were dealing with cadavers. One:s sensibilities tended to be rather different in that context, it wasn't that one didn't notice that they were cadavers, however, being cadavers, here was no animation, no emotive response, as with the examples of the dogs or rodents, as I'd related before, obviously. That being said, when I'd read the story I'd sent in here in the autobio of Gen zcolin Powell, I obviously recalled all I'd seen and heard in both cases, which, given the article about the teacher sent in here, also brought that all back to mind. I merely mention all that, not to ne gross, certainly, however, !merely to explain that, in my estimation, what that teacher didz as I'd said, was manifestly, obviously, overtly wrong, certainly, to my way of thinking at least, I just thought the article here about the use of canines would help underscore that point, that was my sole motivation, honest, I hope that explanation is at least comprehensible, I'd ne most eager to kmow any thoughts, many thanks.