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In the video, students dressed in lab coats at Oklahoma
City's Harding Charter Preparatory High School hold dead cats
that were to be used for dissection and manipulate the animals
in a set of moves to music used in a cat food jingle.
"Animals should be treated and handled with respect and dignity,
a standard that was not upheld in this instance," the school
said in a statement.
"These students made a mistake and they will most likely make
other mistakes in their lives," it said.
The video was made by former students in the fall of 2013, the
school said. It went viral this week after it was posted on
social media by an animal rights group.
(Reporting by Heide Brandes; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing
by Eric Beech)
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