causes of death?

[mr.spooky]

yes. Heart spurted blood, but was only pink on the bottom. Lungs were gorgeous, kidneys were perfect. his intestines were black though, and smelled awful. so it may have been an impaction, or just an infection in his intestines. (had to cut it short, the boyfriend came home and freaked out because it smelled really bad) And to everyone else on here who don't like it...if you have an issue, go away. I didn't tell you to look in this thread. I'm sorry I can't shell out $400 for a necropsy, and I'm always up for learning something new.

your right, there is nothing wrong with learning something,,,, so what did you learn? the heart "spurted" blood, they all will. Did you dissect the chambers and compair wall thickness, did you do a gross on the valves? As mentioned before, did you palpate the lungs, were they congested? Do you know what bad lungs (or kidneys) look like to asume the ones you were looking at were gorgeous? The reason the intestines were black is because during decomp. there the first to go due to all of the bacteria.

spooky