in the old days to find out if you were pregnant? Now you just pee on a stick.

How do you think they make the sticks?

:eek: How do you think they make the sticks?

kill a wabbit.....please explain..... :confused:

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

How does killing a wabbit prove a woman is pregnant??? :confused:

didn't you ever hear congrats the Rabbit died your knocked up

I think it had something to do with the fact that hormones present in a pregnant woman's blood would trigger ovulation or some other change in the rabbit's ovaries. They had to do surgery on the bunny to check the ovaries, and since the bunny's expendable, it never woke up from the surgery.

The saying never made much sense to me, since the rabbit was going to die either way. Doc?? Help us out here.

I heard the saying "tripped over a brick" along with the "rabbit died" thing. I never understood either of them. You trip over a brick and you're pregnant... The rabbit dies and you're pregnant... Hmmm... What if the rabbit tripped over a brick and died? Is that twins?

It's not like they're an endangered species, have you ever seen these things breed however,


Here's the Straight Dope from Cecil Adams

Here's the background. In the rabbit test and other pregnancy "bioassays" (animal-based tests), you injected some of the woman's urine into the critter and observed what happened. During early pregnancy the urine contains an elevated level of hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin), which triggers "corpora hemorrhagica" (bulging masses) in the female rabbit's ovaries. Grim though these sound, the real problem for the rabbit was that you couldn't see them if the rabbit was in the way. The accepted procedure was to kill the animal and dissect it. The difference in the M*A*S*H episode--I believe they were trying to determine whether Hot Lips was pregnant--was that the sacrificial bunny belonged to Radar, so the softhearted doctors agreed to anesthetize it and later sew it up.


Other pregnancy bioassays didn't involve killing the test animal. But they all seemed to involve squeezing pee out of a frog, sticking a tube up a toad's behind, or performing some other grotty procedure that made you understand why doctors charge so much. When cheap, fast tests without animals were developed, it wasn't just pregnant women and rabbits who heaved a sigh of relief.


--CECIL ADAMS

Yes the rabbit died either way, contradicting Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion"

people are actually reponding to this thread.

people are actually reponding to this thread.

Including you! :p

Boy, would you like to list that on your resume?

1999 - 2004 Pregnancy Clinic Frog pee squeezer.

Are you trying to tell us you're pregnant flatso?! :D

Are you trying to tell us you're pregnant flatso?! :D
Wait wasn't guy also pregnant? :D

Including you! :p


well i meant in a sene of returing th statements. but i guess i did respond :p :cool:

Wait wasn't guy also pregnant? :D
Couldn't you see at DT? :D :p

Couldn't you see at DT? :D :p
Argggghh.....I know I'm going to have repeat nightmares....... :mad: