Between blotch and blok

Or almost. Technically, my subjects will be dead, so that's not vivisection. On the other hand, I'll be directly responsible for their deaths.

I've been threatening it for ages, despite Looby Loo's squeamish reaction to the suggestions. I've caught two wee beasties. They've been in an airtight jar for over two days, climbing over a couple of strands of hair. (It's like a tiny zoo exhibit really.) They've finally expired (two days plus) and I'll be putting 'em on a slide and sticking 'em under Looby Loo's microscope. Since I needed to keep them intact, I couldn't put them out of their misery, and they are immensely hard to squash anyway. So a slow starving and/or asphyxiation was their necessary fate.

I'm quite looking forward to what we'll see.

(I suppose we ought to attempt to catch the odd cat flea, too, next time we've itchy cats.)

All in the name of science, right?