Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Mad (Or Just Gross?) Science

Luke got out his microscope last night and had a grand time "teaching" the dog all about it. It was fun for him to look at all the pre-made slides with common items, such as apples and salt.

Luke's interest began to wane quickly, so student turned to experiment and I helped him look at Indy under the microscope. We let Indy lick a slide and examined his saliva. It looked like a rainbow.

We used tweezers to grab some hair. I'm happy to report we saw no fleas.



I left the room and came back to a specimen of Luke's own doing:



"What is it?" I asked.

"Indy's eye juice."

So, maybe he's more Dr. Frankenstein than Einstein.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

At least it was just eye juice...having a scientist boy myself, I was worried it was going to be a different bodily fluid! LOL

Unknown said...

At least it is an educational activity. It could have been much grosser than eye juice :)

Lady Liberal said...

At first I laughed... and then I thought to myself "Damn... that is one patient as hell dog!" I hope Indy got extra treats for putting up with that one!

♥ Becky ♥ said...

Ok, it was funny for a second until I wondered how he got the dogs eye juice onto the slide. Maybe some things are better left unknown. :-)

Anonymous said...

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Momo Fali said...

Ick! Better than nose juice though.

Loth said...

I feel slightly queasy all of a sudden....