Scientists sometimes do crazy things. Too crazy. Purple Slinky blog (what a name) has an intriguing post about 5 scientists that went too far in the name of science. Take, for instance, Vladimir Demikhov:
Demikhov was a pioneer in organ transplantation. Although he was unable to be the first to do heart transplants in humans, he did do many organ transplants in animals. He was most notoriously known for creating a cruel monstrosity in 1954. He surgically attached the head, shoulders, and front legs of a puppy onto a mature dog. People were astonished, if not repulsed, to see the animals lap up milk from bowls.
Link (with video clips) - thanks Jon Jason!
I dont come here to get bummed out.
They had Russian scientists doing mad transplants, and had two-headed dogs as guard dogs.
At one point, Scully finds that picture and it's what cracks the case.
I'll probably have a mental image of the bodyless dog head pop up occasionally for whatever reason, for the next few years if not longer. thanx for the trauma, Neatorama.
I doubt the authenticity of those dog transplants. That dog head looks so staged and fake, a truly headless dog I would think wouldn't lick its lips and act as alive as the one in the video. At most it might twitch here and there, not act as lifelike as the one in the video. Notice no actual shots of the head by itself, nothing conclusive that it is truly a dog head.
Same with the small dog on the big dog. It was probably 'attached' somehow to the upper body of the dog, a fully live and healthy dog by itself.
Both look fake to me. Even today a head transplant is technologically and medically on the level of trying to find a needle in a hay field. What makes anyone think they had the technology and know how back then to do this?
But the hell if I'm going to get all pissed off b/c it was posted.
I mean seriously.. WTH did you expect to see and read about when you clicked on the link after reading the little bit that was posted?
"Hmm.. this guy attached a puppies head to a grown dog! YEAH! Let's click on the link b/c I'm SURE there isn't gonna be anything worse than that!"
UGH... idiots.
WAHHHHH I don't think dats verwy neet!!! WAHHHHHH
Just shut up! pussies...
On the otherhand, I think E is right, it sounds like they ripped off the article from Elephants on Acid.