Skinning Day #3 (Skinning of the ears and removal of the face skin)

Was it difficult to cut off the ears?

Location
Making incision around scalp area and cutting off pinnae in the process.

Procedure

1. Put our masks, gloves and aprons on
2. Take cat out of back room
3. Take cat out of bag and place on bin cover
4. Take out the scalpels and check to make sure the blade on securely
5. Make incision around head including the pinnae and coming around from the initial incision already found in the neck
6. Removing remaining skin from muscle
7. After dissection has been completed, clean scalpel off and place back in the kit
8. Place cat back in bag after removing stray hairs which have come off due to the incision
9. Clean off cover of the bin in the sink
10. Place cat bag in bin and and put bin in the back room
11. Wash hands

Materials

1. apron
2. masks
3. gloves
4. cat bin
5. kit
6. scalpels

Data collected

The ears were tough coming off. there was so much muscle connected to the ear and cutting through all of it was tedious work. The ears are made up of muscle and cartilage and there was only some connective tissue so it was hard to distinguish the muscle and cartilage.

Conclusion 

The ears had ball like cartilage and muscle attached to the skin. I wish we could keep the ears and try to dissect within the ball-like sac on the skin that was cut off. This part of skinning took the longest time and most concentration to skin just the ears and nothing more.