Wednesday: What does external observation show?
Today we observed our cat by using our hands, eyes, brains, and an iPhone. We mainly looked all over Oreo and checked different parts of her body. We discovered that she has a really deep cut in her chest and neck area because the company made a really deep incision before sending her to us. We used gloves, scapels, masks, and aprons in order to observe our cat.
Reflection: I was really scared to hold Oreo without the bag around her. I thought it was also gross so I felt uncomfortable at first. After a while though, it stopped being gross and uncomfortable and started to enjoy it. I liked trying to find the different parts of her body. I think putting Oreo back in the bag could have been improved because we spilled a lot of cat juice everywhere.
Below are pictures.
Above, is a full view of Oreo. We tried putting her in anatomical position, but she's a little difficult!
Above is Oreo's head(and lots of cat juice in the background...)
Above is Oreo's eye. The white part inside is her third eyelid. Her eyes are hard to pry open!
Here is one of Oreo's ear or one of her pinnae. It's upside down in the picture and there's again, lots of cat juice!
Here is Oreo's mouth(thank you Ms. McKinney for opening it up for us!). Oreo's mouth is super hard to open but there are her teeth! One of her tori is also in the picture.
Here is another picture of her teeth!
In this picture, there is Oreo's nares(nose), her philtrum and her tongue!
This a shot of her vibrissae, they're pretty diffcult to see.
Here is Oreo's neck. There's a really deep cut. 
Oreo has 8 teats!!! 
Here is her body or trunk.
In this picture, there are the forelimbs and tori.
Here are Oreo's hindlimbs.
Focus Question: How do you use a scapel?
Today, we learned how to use the scapels. We put Oreo on the lid and cut below her chest. We used gloves, scapels, masks, and aprons in order to skin our cat.
Reflection: I thought using the scapel was scary because I make lots of mistakes! I'm afraid I'll cut the wrong part of her body. I think I could improve on cutting the connective tissue.
Below is a picture of where we cut her skin. The red dots represent the cut. 
Friday: Skinning Continued
Focus Question: Is there anything wrong with Oreo?
Today we continued skinning. We continued using the scapels and practiced using them. We also discovered part of Oreo's muscle was cut off which makes skinning diffcult. We used gloves, masks, and aprons as well in order to skin our cat.
Conclusion/Reflection: I think I could do better on skinning. I still think it's hard and confusing, but cutting is getting a little easier. I feel scared still about making a cut too deep. Oreo's arm is also a little difficult to cut because of how her chest was initially cut but that's okay!
Conclusion/Reflection: I think I could do better on skinning. I still think it's hard and confusing, but cutting is getting a little easier. I feel scared still about making a cut too deep. Oreo's arm is also a little difficult to cut because of how her chest was initially cut but that's okay!
Below is the same picture as above, but the blue shows how far we cut today and skinned.
Monday: Some More Skinning
Focus Question: How Far Can We Skin today?
Today, we continued using the scapels along with the appropriate attire of gloves, masks, and aprons. Today was long period, so our main focus was to skin as much of Oreo as possible. Rima finished the right arm and I continued cutting down the abdominal region as well as continuing the left arm.
Reflection: I think Oreo has a lot of mammary tissue and it was a little gross and weird to look at but also really cool. Unlike Friday, we learned that there was a rally large chunk of mammary tissue not muscle that was cut.
Below is the picture of how far we got, the green is the incisions made today.
Tuesday: Skinning Continued (Again)
Focus Question: How to the Skin the Legs?
Today we reached the legs and finished skinning almost all of Oreo! For procedure and materials we cut Oreo using scapels just like the other days and we also had on our gear.
Reflection: I thought pulling off Oreo's back was a lot harder than it seemed!
Below are the incisions we made, the purple dots are today's incisions.
Wednesday: Skinning the Face
Focus Question: How do you skin the face?
Procedure: Using the scapel, we cut a line on the back of Oreo's skull and we cut a circle around her eyes and mouth. We then cut her ears off.
Reflection: I thought cutting her ear was unexpectedly really hard. Cutting Oreo's ears off also made me feel a little bad.
Below is a picture of the incisions we made.
Below is also a microscopic skin sample, there aren't many bubbles but there are many hairs!
Below is a picture of the back of Oreo's head and her back.
