. The Frog Killer .

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
10:35 AM

I can still hear his very last croak... the sensation of his slippery body against my surgical gloves... the feeling of him wringling in my arms when I did it... I killed a frog.

Well, it was unintentional!!! I didn't do it on purpose. (Wah! There goes the croak in my head again!) You see, I should just pith the frog not kill it.All my other groupmates were done doing it for the pratical exam and I was the only one left who hadn't done it. My ka-Group, Ryan, told me to get it over with. Para nga naman wala na akong problema tomorrow. He handed me the frog he was holding, (NOTE: Froggy was already pithed. Ryan used the frog for his pithing.) since pithed the yung frog na yun, he is not very active na. He still moved around as he tried to escape my grasp. So yun, I went to my teacher na, equipped with a dissecting needle to perform the pithing.

As part of the procedure, I had to ran a nail on the posterior skull of the frog to locate it's foramen magnum then I should stick a needle into it (only about a centimeter of the needle in) and rotate the needle to destroy the Frog's brain. It took me so long to locate the foramen magnum kasi hindi naman mahaba ang kuko ko. Eh, dahil hinihintay ako ng Prof ko, I just stuck the needle where I THOUGHT there was a depression. Nung una, ayaw pa pumasok nung needle (Pramis, sobrang nanginginig na ako nung ginagawa ko yun

) so I used extra force. And when I did, ayun, pumasok na nga and the frog started to make noise and to fidget in my hands. I twisted the needle, unconsciously aware that I've stuck it too deep. So the frog kept on making noise and then finally, he went stopped and he went limp on my hands.

When he did, I check his eyes and saw that they were still open but the pupils were obviously dilated.

Not a good sign. After that, I went back to my group's table (they were opening up the other frog's chest). I checked the frog's reflexes pa din, kung gagalaw pa siya or what but no, he's a goner. I placed him in the canister with water and he didn't swim or anything, he just dropped to the bottom of the can.

Actually, kailangan pa namin yung frog na yun for another experiment so lagot talaga ako. Dumating si Ryan, tinanong kung tapos na daw ako. Sabi ko oo, tas I said "Napatay ko yata eh..." Tinanong niya kung asan na tas I showed him the frog inside the canister. Tumawa lang siya tas sabing, "patay na nga". We dispoed of it dun sa labas ng lab, kasama ng iba pang sumakabilang buhay na palaka. Nagtuturuan pa kaming dalawa kung sino ang kukuha ng panibagong frog para dun sa isa pang experiment. Buti na lang si Lynette and kumuha at nagpith. Hustler na yun sa ganun eh. Hahaha.

Ayun.

That's the story of how I killed an innocent frog. Sa totoo lang, marami pa kaming kabrutalan ginawa dun sa mga frogs namin kahapon. Di ko lang talaga makalimutan na nakapatay ako ng palaka. I think in the class, I was the very first one to do so.