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Sun, 3 Jun 2001 02:51:54 +0100
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Hiya All...
Here are some kids taking their first steps in veterinary medicine...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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Eighth graders use Super Glue 'surgery' to save tarantula after brutal
fall
SPRINGFIELD, Missouri (AP) -- Felicia Daniels wants to be a veterinarian
when she grows up. She's off to a good start.
When the pet tarantula in Felicia's eighth-grade classroom took a tumble
and cracked its abdomen, the students reassembled its innards, closed it
up with Super Glue and apparently saved the creature's life.
"It looked kind of gross," said Felicia, who had the task of applying
the glue. "At first I thought it was going to make me sick. But then it
looked kind of cool."
The spider, named Sir Isaac Newton, lives in an aquarium in Carolyn
Mulkey's science classroom at Study Middle School.
Sir Isaac's brush with death occurred Thursday as Mulkey was trying to
hand the spider to student Charity Thomas. The spider tried to make a
break for it but instead fell about 4 feet to the floor.
"I heard it," Mulkey said. "He thunked when he hit pretty hard."
Hitting the floor cut the tarantula's abdomen open. Student Chris Davis
had a brainstorm: surgery and Super Glue.
He and the guilt-stricken Charity, by then ready "to do anything to save
his life," donned plastic gloves and used a Popsicle stick to push the
spider's vital organs back in place before Felicia applied the glue.
Still, there was no real hope that Sir Isaac Newton would recover. The
defenseless spider was rather lethargic in post-op.
"I assumed I would come in this morning and he would be dead," Mulkey
said Friday. Instead, she found a sluggish but hungry spider munching on
a mealworm.
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