Cat found in science lab belongs to student.

A high school student's class was about to participate in the schools cat dissection. If you never had to do this, they ship the school boxes of whole cats that were strays picked up off the street or euthanized in pounds/shelthers (or so my class was told while I was in high school). This is a common fate for feral or unwanted cats.

Once all the cats were on the lab tables a student noticed that one soaked kitty looked very familiar. She inspected the cat and it was her pet cat that had gone missing months before, she recognized it by hits markings. She became hysterical, as she had had this cat for years, but instead of allowing her to take her pet home and bury it the school "convinced" her to let the other students who had chosen it to "use it to learn". She texted her mom and the school would not allow her mom to pick up the cat either, even though the mother too immediately recognized the cat. They claimed the cats cost too much for the school to let go of, yet they had at least three extra specimens "for student screw ups".

So this student had to watch her beloved pet be ripped apart at the next table for three weeks.

(I'm assuming she didn't opt out of the assignment because if her school was like mine, they failed you if you didn't do this as a means to force students to not waste cadavers or cause a riot.)

Poll☞How do you feel the school handled this situation?

Comment☟Do you think animals commonly considered pets should be part of high school class dissections?