Sunday, January 30, 2011
Got my animal cert! The course was a terrifying experience to be honest. The mice we had was nuts. It tried to bite at every opportunity. Poor yucui got bitten twice. I didnt get bitten, cause I only tried to handle the mouse when I have mustered enough courage, such that my hands were not trembling. I also handled it with a gauze pad, so if it were to turn around to to bite, it would be biting on the gauze instead of my fingers. Poor mice though. They're cute, albeit crazy. The rat was much better. Although it was 5x bigger than a mouse, it was much more docile, maybe it's more intelligent. As long as I didnt try to hold it tight, it was a good little animal and just sat on my arm, front paws on my chest, looking up at me. Haha. So cute! It likes crawling everywhere, like it was just curious, unlike the mouse, which was just scrambling away or trying to bite all the time.I'm super worried though. I need to handle mice all the time in my project. How am I to do it? Only one mouse during the course, and I was so shaken and mentally drained.
Some eye slices I made using the crystat (microtome). The microtome is a pretty cool machine. It's minus 20 degress inside, and I had to triple-glove my hands to use it. Coldddd!
