I keep rats because I have a large ball python that feeds on them. She is very picky and only takes live rats. Unfortunately, one of them died because of unknown reasons. The night before they were jumping up and hitting their head hard against the roof of the cage. I found them lifeless when I got home from school the next day.

But here's the fun part:

I took the right and placed it on paper towels that were laid out my desk. I had ran out of latex gloves so I used my rubber gloves from my Medic costume. (Professional, am I right?) I found my father's X-acto knife and dissected the rat. The liver was a pain to get out these fat rubber gloves were terrible for performing something such as this. I got most of it's internal organs to spill out and caught pretty high definition pictures that, for obvious reasons, I will not show. Then, to finish it off, as I was curious, I split it's skull open. Fun fact: breaking a rat's skull sounds like crunching potato chips. I got his skull fractured enough to see the inside and what was left of the brain I may have sliced open. It was interesting.

It was for science reasons of course.

Seriously, though. I am interested in the medical field and surgery and such. Those types of things is what I enjoy. It was only curiosity.

I am not crazy!