I thought the cat bomb got canceled fairly quickly after the project director dropped his cat off a platform into a pool and found the cat didn't react to the model ship in the pool and he acquired several new scars.
On a semi related note, my friend has to dissect a cat as a mandatory part of one of his highschool classes. This is after earlier having to dissect pig fetuses. My science teacher has a dead, skinned cat he keeps in a freezer to use to show muscles.