I have to tell you all a disturbing yet funny anecdote about skinning cats. I attended a small school- elementary, middle, and high school all on the same campus. In my junior year, I took Biology II. Part of our curriculum was dissecting an adult cat. We had to literally skin our cats. The water hose was behind the cafeteria, so my group took our cat out to skin it under the water. As we were working, some elementary kids walked up to ask what we were doing. I looked up and told them "Oh, we're just helping to get lunch ready." Those kids' eyes got huge and they looked scared to death. Being heartless teenagers we just laughed and thought it was funny that the little kids thought they were going to eat cat burgers. I can't remember if we told them we were just joking or not.