Fake. The Ruskies did a good job at confusing the f*ck out of us though, since we are still discussing if they are really conducting those creepy experiments or not.

Even centuries after the war!

@Noobs-R-Us: PETA is afraid of Russia. Because in Russia, Animals fight for your rights!

Klappstuhl

@Ohestu: Debating the point about the olfactory sense does not mean that the video is a fake. The citric acid was applied to the mouth as well.

Annex1

dont kneck muscles come into play, with jaw movement?

gonzaleznj

This is 100% possible using modern techniques and medical procedures.

Coronary Artery Bypass ([en.wikipedia.org]) is done with the heart stopped entirely. The Heart and Lung machine replaces all functions of both--so you don't need either one. And Newer studies have shown that you don't need a complicated beating system--the body functions just fine with a steady flow of blood for long periods of time. A steady flow is easier to make and maintain than a beating rhythm.

Now, did we have this 50 years ago? I don't know. Maybe. But I know it's possible today to have a head living detached from the body--but you would be in an extraordinary amount of pain.

dragonphyre

This is old news. The British came up with a similar technology around the same time, and have been using it on Margaret Thatcher for years...

Hvedhrungr

Real or fake, I bet the dog was pissed at the person who kept sticking that damm feather in its face...

Uberdude328i

If the dog was on a Heart/Lung machine then there would be no air passed over the olfactory system in the nose, therefore the dog would not ahv reacted to the smell of citric acid. Also as had not noted by so many before my post that there is far too much movement in a severed head. The video assumes that the head was cut off leaving a perfect even cut without disturbing the fur above the cut. Also for a research project the head would not be just laying on the table but supported in a some retraining device. Pure Fake.

Ohestu

I present this option: Perhaps the head isn't "alive" as we would normally say. Perhaps this head is functionally "alive", in that the brain is functioning partially. Notice how the head seems to only respond to key sensory data, ie: The hammer striking the table, the Citric acid around the nose and mouth, etc. Chemoreceptors and audio receptors in the brain may be responding instinctually to the input provided, thus we see basic, instinctual motions from the animal's head. It would partly explain why they use a hammer, instead of snapping one's fingers, or why they used citric acid instead of something more to a Dog's taste.

Annex1

Where's PETA?

Noobs-R-Us

well... it's kinda creepy, but if it will help people in the future - body blown off, it's fine by me!
for more creepy things watch this

+ Watch video

jak0b

1-what the hell is wrong with people

2-seriously, what the hell is wrong with people

andrethejesus

@Simpsons-Movie-ruled: dammit, not car. CAT!!!

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

It's clearly FAKE and very disturbing.
Thanx for ruining my day.
Curiosity killed the car, or in this case. The dog.

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

@nutbastard: Ha ha! I laaahv thees kahntree..

archeomason

oh and there's a full 20 minute version at [www.archive.org]

dumbwhore

Regardless of fake or not, poor doggy =o(

P3nnst8r

Whole film:
Part 1:

+ Watch video

+ Watch video

Wow.

ViewtifulJason

The label over the Citric Acid was clearly added in later on. That doesn't neccesarily mean that the rest of the video is fake. I'd say the fact that no one is taking claim for it in Russia would be the clearest proof it's a fake. Russians don't usually not take credit for something, no matter how zany or wacky. There's another version of the video with sound at [www.environmentalgraffiti.com]

dumbwhore

needs a skinny puppy soundtrack to put it over the top.

ravedown

Fake or not, this has succeeded in snuffing out the warm feeling I had from the doggie post earlier this morning. Now I'm sad.

Gann

@med: Although I agree that the video is somewhat unbelievable... it never says that the dog is in anyway comfortable or is able to think... not sure we'd be ditching death for that life.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Sick & Fake. If it had been real there would be more about it and of course more experiments featuring more animals and perhaps some people by now.

GadgetGhurl

that is so fucked and cruel. poor thing. =[

AtheistP3ace

FAKE

Soulxside

Either way... who's the heartless bastard who severed this dog's head from its body? I doubt it was some kind of last-ditch effort to save the thing, as I doubt an accident-victim dog would hardly be a good specimen for this experiement.

I feel sad now.

:(

mcdonnr

+1 to the head movements being too large. yound need neck muscles and a body to leverage againbst

nuropath

Well at least Laika got to keep her head even if she is a pupsicle now....

Jrsy

...hey wait, wasn't there an MST3K With a similar thing going on...? Only it was a chick?

IrisMR

i don't know that I believe this video... I mean yes, blood circulation and respiration, those things are believable, but you can't maintain brain function of a severed head without dealing with the spinal cord... or at least that's my take on it... I'm not a doctor.
If that were the case, old and/or almost dead people would be ditching their bodies below the neck for artificial respirators and blood circulation machines in order to live beyond their reasonable years.

med

how does it's head move if it has no leverage point for the muscles to function?

WesR

Hm, I say trick.

IrisMR

In Soviet Russia, they do really sick things to dogs.

There's no way I'm clicking that video, even if it's fake.

I don't feel so good.

Mondoz

This type of stuff is really sickening... I think the video can be absolutely real.

For those of you who dare - watch videos on vivisection on YouTube. I'm sure you'll be sick for a while.

This stuff has to stop.

clearbox

Disturbing.

bms

If there were such a place as hell, I'm sure there'd be a circle where everyone is reduced to this. Nothing but a head, kept alive on a plate, while you are prodded and poked and tickled on the nose, without the ability to scream or cry. Only to wince and contort your face as best you can.

Fuck this video. I'm buying a puppy.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

One thing is for sure. Scientists should not be allowed to control cameras.

Also the movement of the head seems too large since the neck muscles are probably not working.

The video stopped for a second at the frame with a hammer and I thougth awwww... poor doggie is gonna get it now.

I say fake...

future-proof

Mya tachka polni pizdyets! bleyats!

in soviet russia, dogs head.. severs you...? nyet?

nutbastard

I remember my first abomination... (sigh)...

DeadWriter

From what I've seen in a documentary awhile ago, this doctor was responsible for today's heart transplants.

Apparently, he had attached the dog's head to another dog.
And it lived.

Groggy Banana

@maven2k: the blood flows through the fake heart, and the lungs put oxygen into the blood. And if this is real they should probably make fake organs as well cuz if they don't that head ain't gonna be alive much longer!!

I'm skeptical as well.

fatASCurtis

doesn't even look like the same dog. fake

graphx

This article makes Corgi very sad.

EBone

geez peeps, so many clues as to it's fakery I don't know where to begin. Using the muscles in it's neck to move when they are hacked apart. Being able to move but not trying to eat their flesh. Oh, and the Aunt Mabel's English Fresh Citrus.

txpunk

Very disturbing, I could have done without.

drigo02

my curiosity was peeked when i saw the hammer being picked up. only to be hit on the surface it was previously laying on.

damnElantra

Gah! Video blocked!

ripfire

Or rather, was the machine being kept alive by the dog's head?

Rabid Penguin

That's the Giz for you. Always up to date on 50 year old scientific wonders. But I guess a new generation hasn't heard of this bizarre shit, yet.

Charybdis

Lassie finally gets her comuppance for all that meddling.

ps61318

Yes its fake, saw it a year a go and did some research

quickdood

Well, based on the way it was moving the head HAS to be a real head.
The lack of multiple camera angles makes me want to call total bullshit. the very first scene where the head is motionless was probably made by a taxidermist, and the action shots were from a restrained and drugged pooch.

Show me a clip with the tubes actually attached while it's moving and you might get me to sway my vote.

bucklefilledbird

@NETHED: Depends. They had mail-order even back then, and might have gotten it from somewhere in Western Europe where they speak English - like, oh, I don't know, England?

ps61318

@artistpavel: Either way, it's still disturbing... especially knowing that this stuff happened to PEOPLE!! Alright, leaving post.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

This makes me wonder how many other experiments are done in labs all over the world.

SilenceisGolden

Now I wonder about those Elvis and Monkey heads...
Are they robots for real???????

aec007

@NETHED: I agree. It should say whatever you wrote there... And what's with that font? That's the friendliest citric acid I've ever seen.

qbrad

Fake, the first shot shows dead head, the second shows live dog, you can't see the body, but it's there.

artistpavel

Thanks for the offer, but I am not going to watch that video. Good day, sir.

itchytooth

I don't know about this. There would have to be dialysis, oxygen replaced in the blood, and who knows what else. Where would the saliva go if it swallowed? Bah, I call shenanigans.

maven2k

Frasputinstein...?

Jrsy

If it were real, why did the russians write citric acid. Shouldn't it be лимонная кислота?

NETHED

fluffy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wonder where he went! mommy!

ProtoDAda

@CutePuppyz: You just ruined every good punchline for Ron Popeil's head-in-a-jar from Futurama.

Shameful...

shiftyeyedgoat

@Ken_Darrow: So then we will be the robot overlords.

Gann

I say fake.
You can see the blue tint...erm, or something.

Manator (Follow me and die!)

Science!

ravedown

Wait, so the soviets now recruited Josef Mengele? This disturbs me... could have lived without the post, sowwy.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Mars Attacks!

future-proof

OMG... maybe they can improve the development and we just need our brains installed in robot host bodies. That would be cool.

Ken_Darrow

Umm okay then? That's more disturbing than Teletubbies mating.....maybe........

Dj75728

Wonder how long it stayed alive... Can the same be done for a human one day?

Nintenboy01

Ah, a lunch machine.

phoenix96

I've seen a dog's head being kept alive by a machine before, only the machine was made out of meat, and it was dog-shaped.

Still it creeped the shit out of me.

mhlaxp

heart and lunch machine you say? mmmmmm

hypnotik_jello

how primitive... everyone knows you need to stick heads in jars to keep them alive

Weihovah

If that's true. That is sick.

Futurama baby!

CutePuppyz

I'll wonder if tossing a stick across the room would:

a) Cause this pooch to leap up and expose the fraud
or
b) Be the most fucked up heartless thing you could do to him. Aside from, you know, throwing a steak instead.

meatlocker

Nice try Giz, I am not watching this. I have enough nightmare fuel running around up there as it is...

MagnoliaBoy

Ok, so... this is probably the grossest thing I've seen today. Definitely not the grossest thing ever (think tub girl). But anyway, it actually gives me some glint of hope, because I have this crazy dream that rather than die someone can put my head on a robot. If our canine friends can pave that road for me, then I'm kind of OK with it...

singlecoilpickup

A boy was born without a body, just a head. The doctors didn't give him much of a chance to live, but he surprised everyone and did so.
His parents doted on "the head" and tried every concoction and experimental treatment to help him become "normal" but to no avail.
Finally the day before his 16th birthday his dad got a call from Germany
( they had developed a grafting technique where they could attach the head to a recently deceased person) - that they had found a suitable 'donor match' and that he should bring "the head" over on the next flight in the morning.
So dad goes into "the head's" room and says: "Son, I know that we have tried many things to help you develop your full potential. Most have been painful both physically during the procedure and emotionally after the failure. Tomorrow is your 16th birthday and your mother and I have a surprise for you but we don't want to say too much about it as we're not ready to give you false hopes and see them dashed again.
Suffice it to say that we love you, and have always wished only the best for you. However we think you'll really be happy with the surprise."
The head looks up (with a little tear in the corner of his eyes) and says
"Dad, I love you both too, and really thank you for everything you've tried
to do, and I'm sure I will love it too... Just as long as it's not another
goddamned HAT !

ANoel

@crashfrog: Maybe the dog volunteered.

Rabid Penguin

You know, Gizmodo has posted some messed-up, NSFW, and inappropriate stuff over the years, but this takes the cake. This is not tech, it's pure snuff. I used to read Giz several times a day, but not any more. Engadget would NEVER run this kind of piece. Good luck fellas.

DrWebster

Either way... who's the heartless bastard who severed this dog's head from its body?

I'd do it, no problem. If my species stands to benefit then there's probably no amount of dogs I wouldn't cut up, for science.

And I don't really like dogs. But even if this fake video were true it's nothing compared to the suffering we gladly inflict on livestock just to have a hamburger.

crashfrog

Either way... who's the heartless bastard who severed this dog's head from its body?

crashfrog

Weather its fake or not, the mere concept its fairly messed up. they should try things like the on evil tennis interupting pigeons not nice dogs. serriously.

Wakeley

So fake. It's obvious that Nina Kulagina is controlling the movement from off-camera.

92BuickLeSabre

@jak0b: You bastard! I'm scared shitless now. I think you just made my dog fart too.

johnnyabnormal

@jrghoull: a few drops of citric acid should clear up the bad taste in your mouth...

Jrsy

I decided to read the comments before playing this little tidbit.
Just wanted to say thanks for the comments... I'll pass on this one.

kaylix

@Absent Blue: Welcome to the top of the food chain. Why does scientific advancement always cause people to complain about "being humane"? Who cares, let the good science roll. Or should we make stem-cell research illegal as well? Oh wait...

Annex1

"From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am man.", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself."

jonparent

@jak0b: LOl you Bas-Tar-do!
Good Film though.

DJJS

dear gizmodo:

my name is abe and i'm a long time reader and poster on your website. over the years i have seen many posts on your website that have not been all that interesting, and some even, annoying (as i am not a mac "fanboi"). Still however, i visit your site multiple times a day. Why? because it is in my opinion the best website around for tech news. However, this post makes me question that a little bit.

i am not your biggest fan, i dont blog the most (and even when i do they're not always the great posts) i dont check it hourly, and i'm probably not the most loyal, and the loss of me as a "customer" wouldnt have any particular significance. depiste all that, i would like to request that you never do a post like this again. man does alot of obscenely grotesque things to animals. Sometimes these things are done in the name of science, other times, out of seemingly morbid curiosity. This action seems to fall somewhere in between the two.

does the fact that this is a tech news site justify this? maybe. its technology, the advancement of science, and showing what man is capable of. showing this on the site also lets people become away of what is/has been going on, and to possibly help stop the more pointless experiments.

there is a consequence that you may not be considering though, the affect that something like this could have on the gizmodo audience. people come on here to read about the latest cell phone or what steve jobs had for lunch yesterday. i'd wager a dollar that they generally dont come on here to read about the russies going a step too far and keeping a dog in an artificial hell.

seeing stuff like that can leave a bad taste in peoples mouthes. and if they think of it too much...maybe they visit the gizmodo site a little less? totally unfounded, i know, but just look at the comments, this stuff is depressing, and personally, i come on gizmodo to get away from it all, not to be reminded of where most what i eat and the medicines i use come from (science that has been tested on animals first).

i doubt any of the writers on gizmodo will read this, let along take it into consideration. and hell why should they? i'm a person of no real consequence, just a fan who (for personal reasons) was a little more horrified and saddened to see such graphic imagery on giz. but i hope they do. dont get me wrong i am not trying to make gizmodo only do safe articles or anything, i just hope they dont post any more articles that might go a little too far for, what i believe to be, most people people who read giz.
i actually hope its fake, i hope the dogs dead...we've all seen futurama, now heres our chance to

anyway, thats my two cents.

oh, and post script: i really hope that dog in the video (that i will never, ever watch) is actually dead.

jrghoull

@IrisMR: The chick had neck juice. This dog does not.

dingus

A friend showed this to me a few years ago, he had like a 50 minute clip of this stuff. 50 minutes. Good quality. It was like watching a train wreck.

The only thing I gained from it was knowledge that this was possible and there were people sick enough to do it. And friends sick enough to download it. Suffice to say my curiosity would have also piqued, but this is certainly one of the most depraved things I've ever seen, it makes me feel like I lost a bit of humanity.

Absent Blue

This was Hope's father. What a messed up dog family.

Sora57

@Klappstuhl: Centuries?

Annex1

@Noobs-R-Us: Where's PETA?

Yeah someone needs to give them a 'heads-up' about this..

Jrsy

it would be another cold war trick.

Just shave enough of the dogs neck/body hair loose (but leave attached to the head), sedate the dog a little, and put a cardboard divider over the neck (hiding the rest of the body).

An 8 yr old on you-tube can do scarier things than that

mattius

Serfei's Litter:
[www.damninteresting.com]

Not only is it true but he has done much worse than that.

Though he was a pioneer in the field of transplants, just a bit of a Frankenstein really.

simmo

I'd REALLY prefer if you didn't have severed dog heads on the front page, leave that for after the jump :(

WEGGLES90

Of course, no one will see any of this seeing as I waited so long I've been placed on the second page. Sad days. Oh well.

Seni

This is garbage. As soon as I saw the dogs head moving I knew I had seen enough.
The head is not going to move unless the muscles are attached to something. The head is severed. The mouth didn't move the head from friction against the bottom of the table so how exactly does it move?

Oh and Giz. I better not have any nightmares about severed dog heads tonight.

CaptCaveman

" The only things stopping heads from being kept alive is the central nervous system (which could theoretically be simulated) and the fact you'd have about 20 seconds to connect each vein and artery to a machine that feeds the blood with nutrients and oxygen otherwise the brain would run out of 02 and die."
from the net.
----------------
U.S. neurosurgeon Robert White

White's real hope is that, one day, he'll be able to supervise the first human head transplant surgery, but until then, he's not about to discourage curiosity, be it from Scientific American or Hard Copy. Though he retired from clinical surgery a few years ago (he's 74), he still puts on his lab coat frequently for interviews with reporters from all over the world, conducted in a made-for-B-movie "laboratory" in the basement of MetroHealth Medical Center. The dusty relic of the gleaming ward where he performed the surgery is crowded with skull drills, electrodes, and the requisite brain in formaldehyde.

Cleveland brain surgeon Robert J. White has a head for transplanting.
Article Published Dec 9, 1999
[www.clevescene.com]

"Against Nature shows Professor White performing this experiment. After the blood supply has been connected, the head can safely be removed from its original body, with its brain functioning more or less normally. Then the body's original head is disconnected and its new head is attached. Shortly after, the transplanted head appears to regain consciousness. Although the transplanted head cannot control its new body, the head itself appears to be working normally. Its eyes follow Professor White around the room. The monkey will survive for up to a week but could possibly live like this indefinitely if drugs were used to prevent the body from rejecting the head."
[www.ourcivilisation.com]

Demikhov experiments
Vladimir Demikhov, a Soviet scientist
In 1946 Demikhov replaced the whole heart-lungs complex of a dog without using the apparatus of artificial circulation of blood. In 1954 he conducted a revolutionary experiment, when created a two-headed dog by grafting a puppy's head to a full-grown pooch. Then scientists even observed the process of rejuvenation of the elder dog. Shown are the two dogs before the operation, Demikhov performing operations, the puppy's head lapping up water, demonstration of the dog on a scientists conference
[www.tvdata.ru]

If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive...: Discorporation and U.S. Patent 4,666,425, by Chet Fleming
Fleming's patent, granted in May of 1987, was revoked two years later.
[home.att.net]

Seni

Another classic video of similar vein:

+ Watch video

Seni

That's so fake!

G2GdoB2B

For one this, this belongs on io9. For another, this shit is fucked up and I stopped subscribing to Snopes because of crap like this. At least keep the photo off the RSS feed.

markarian

I'm really hoping it was just "another Ruskie trick".

Loonie

If it were only a head, it would not have neck muscles to move even slightly. And if it did have muscles they would be completely severed and non functional. I call bullshit

SADDAMHUSSEIN

question: how is this dog supposed to move his head around as if it were still attached to his neck if it's not? Perhaps because this is bullshit? Decent bullshit, but I call bullshit nonetheless.

banmojo

I need to go puke now, BRB.

james

Don't have balls to see that.

It will give nightmares....

jmprado

Disgusting! Poor Dog.

I like animals, and have three dogs myself.
Still I can understand the need for animal testing to a certain degree.

But this is inhumane, unethical and generally not worthy of being done by a living being to another.

Leaving post.

mangochutney

I'd call it a fake. This would be a big achievement even by today's standards. I consider it impossible that the now-confirmed inferior medical technology of the Soviets could have achieved this.

Aaron Martin-Colby

Futurama's Heads in a Jar one step closer to reality!

but seriously thats pretty sick and inhumane

UndeadOverlord

dude...

i am speechless

bookmark

dammit...how come the Russians hate dogs so darn much?
They blast them into space, use them as anti-tank weapons and keep their heads alive via tubes.

Assholes

digidt

This video is pretty disturbing... especially if it is real.

I do happen to think it is a fake. The footage of the dog isn't great, yet the cutaway shots (to the feather, the citric acid and the hammer) are all too perfect by comparison. Cutaway shots like that would also not be normal in laboratory footage. The angles of light used and the quality (ie. very directional and focussed lighting) makes this seem more staged than laboratory footage. The head shows far too much movement for a dog that is supposedly decapitated: watch for the swallow after the dog licks its lips and the reeling from the hammer being banged in front of it. If there was no body connected to the head, it would not be able to move like that. It looks more like the dog has been sedated and has its head poking through a hole in the table. Wouldn't laboratory footage also make a point of showing the machinery and the connections to the head? Finally, as other people have mentioned, if it is a Russian footage (as claimed), why is "Citric Acid" in English?

This isn't real. Although it is hard to tell if it was staged recently (as a hoax) or was steaged years ago (as propoganda).

nimblesquirrel

im not even going to watch because ive seen it before and also because its fake. a head requires more than a handful of blood feeds to stay alive, for one thing. for another, there are fairly important parts of the mind requiring more than is left of the spine on that particular head to function. and most simply, the pain, lack of sensation and inability to move would send a creature insane, which the 'head' in the video doesnt display as it happily smacks its chops.

its fortean times: cold war edition.

red

@maven2k: Yes?

shenanigans61

This does explain Larry King.

Kajo

@IrisMR: The movie's called "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", it's probably more realistic than this clip due to the fact that you can see more of the "life support" than this video.

Great movie, by the way: nothing better than a black and white movie on medical experiments...gone too far!

Seriously, awesome movie.

XM8500

What about the trauma of cutting off it's head? Wouldn't that alone kill it? You would have to chop its head off, clamp off any veins or arteries, hook them up to your machine, get airflow going, the dog would be long dead by then. Sure you could put it to sleep for the operation but the freakin brain would need some love and FAST. No way.

sakko

@Annex1: Oh. Whoops.

On another note: "I Like Ike."

Klappstuhl

while i was a bio major i dissected a cat, all the way down to the circulatory system.
I had to memorize each muscle and know where it attached to. And i can tell you one thing, the jaw, tongue and most facial movements aren't possible with out the neck and shoulders. The place the head was cut off at cuts most muscles down in half, meaning they are missing their anchor points for proper functioning.
Even without biology knowledge you ought to know that tongue movements require a neck, and the way that dog is moving its tongue is not possible considering the head was cut at the neck. If you notice in the video when this so called "scientist" uses a feather to tickle the nose of the dog you'll realize that the head slightly lifts from the surface, which isn't possible without neck and shoulder muscles. When the citric acid is applied you realize similar movements that aren't possible without muscles of the shoulder and neck.
There are many ways you can determine this is fake. The main way is by realizing the tongue couldn't be doing such movement without a neck. I realize there is a "neck" but yo need a full neck, and the saliva needs to go somewhere. Since dogs sweat through their tongue we can conclude that are several things missing from this video to make it realistic.
Just my thoughts.

Dudemeister on the Run

This shouldn't be a problem at all. The trapezius and the sternocleidomastoids are innvated by the 11th cranial nerve, and they might not be able to move the head in the way that they usually do but they should definitely be able to twitch. Vascular supply to the head is through the common carotid and the basilar arteries, and drainage is through the internal and external jugulars. 8 vessels shouldn't be that much of a technical challenge to hook up to a heart lung machine, and the first officially successful human CVS bypass surgery was performed in 1951 so the machine was probably available much earlier. All the shit that they had the head do are cranial nerve reflexes, and the tongue and face are completely controlled by cranial nerves. Assuming that they tied off the dura, CSF is produced and absorbed entirely inside the skull. They should be able to keep this puppy "alive" indefinitely and they have 6-8 min to perform the surgery if they cared to preserve cognitive function.

skippythatis

Man you people whine a lot. Get over.

To help you get over it, I recommend searching google images for the following:
Tubgirl
Goatse
Lemonparty

Those ought to help. :D

Annex1

Wow, is all I can really say. Amazing, is the second thing that comes about..

Third, well I am in awe... but not particularly a good way. It's like I am interested, but equally cautious as well. what an odd feeling...

I don't know what to think, is it a trick, is it real... was it using any muscle at all to twitch? how did that work..
more questions than answers..

-Core-

That would be so awesome if it wasn't a fake. Sure some may say its cruel, but the dog was probably a dick and had it coming.

citizensmith

@Annex1: Hmmm... I've seen all of those except Lemonparty. Thanks for the tip! :D mwahahaha

Ragnaroknroll

Fake, fake, fakity fake fake fake.

aphex242

rubbish. this is impossible. and russian science videos from the 20s look far worse than this one

mor10

Faaaakke. As I understand it, a dog's tongue is connected way back in the throat. The dog would not have been able to lick a damn thing.

Also, I enjoy a good hoax just as much anyone, but this is just fucking vulgar. Kindness to animals is a hallmark of humanity. Pull this stunt with the head of a human child and see what....hmm...let's see...

I say, anyone gots a baby I can borrow?

kangaroo

This was on Boing Boing about a year ago. It freaked me out. There's another video where they drain the blood out of a dog until it dies, then pump the blood back in an reanimate it.

Both are very freaky.

GeekyNerdGuy

@Loonie: Agreed
It doesn't even matter if it's fake, still, Oh my god.

zackthebuddha

Wow now that is just fucking twisted. That's what I'll see whenever I close my eyes now, thanks.

chrstphr

By the way, this is not some new "fake." This is an actual declassified soviet video that was made during the cold war, so it's not like the be-kind-to-animal standards were as high in the 1950s. Medical breakthroughs have to be made somehow.

GeekyNerdGuy

@XM8500:

wait what??? "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"

well nonetheless experiments like these actually did lead to heart transplant or blood transfusions...one of the two it was so long ago

mricyfire

I challenge any internist, neurologist, neurosurgeon, kinesthesiologist to pull out their Netters and show me which muscle of the tongue needs anything beyond the mandible, styloid and the hyoid as insertions to function. Also let me know what a brain needs beyond csf and blood.

Jaw movement: temporalis, masseter and pterygoids - all above foramen magnum.

Facial movements: with exception of platysma, all anchored on parts of the skull.

Any takers?

skippythatis

wow...i saw this years ago...for those that say it is fake do a little research, but this tech led to the development of the heart transplant technology..something like that
but imagine..we could bring dogs back to life back WWII times..imagine what we can do now...ZOMBIES :)

mricyfire

saw this on Digg like 2 years ago! Timely post. There are more videos in the series around the youtubes. Kinda creepy if it's real/

bloopers

Oh my god..

TheHeartless

Ooooooold news.

bbfreak

@jrghoull: Golf clap. Thank you.

EBone

@singlecoilpickup:[www.2girls1cup.com] that's gross. Well, I hope watching 2girls1cup version of fully reanimated chopped heads of bitches in the next decade. Would be even better, hit the top of the gross.

Palestina

Next person that mentions engadget and says they'll never visit here again should get an insta-ban for being such a whiner.
Seriously, were you people raised in such a sheltered manner that a post about a fascinating medical experiment, whether a hoax or not, that utilizes machines that keep a head alive away from its body makes you curl up in a little ball and cry out OH NO! SAVE ME! I HAVE OBVIOUSLY BEEN FORCED TO WATCH THIS AS I HAVE NO FREE WILL OF MY OWN.
It's interesting, real or not, it is science and it DOES, most importantly, have to do with gadgets (the machine).
Get stronger stomachs you pansies.

saywha

This looks like one of those Dharma Initiative orientation videos from Lost.

prince_of_paradox

Oh come on people. Why do you think there are lab rats? Scientists have been experimenting on animals for hundreds of years. Not just the Russians either. I've seen US government video footage of sarin gas on monkeys. He was not a happy camper, though he wasn't happy for a few seconds.... The only way we'll ever stop doing scientific research on animals is to get rid of all the scientists. I don't see that happening.

Barry99705

Not to mention the Russians and some American dude did head transplants. For the Russians it was again dogs (which is why it isn't so hard to believe that the Russians did do a experiment similar to this even if the video is fake), and for the American it was a monkey. So they cut off one monkey's head in the interest of science and then put the other monkey's head on that body.

bbfreak

@saywha: Agreed, I don't understand why so many people are puking or are going to have nightmares because of a dog head. Pansies indeed.

bbfreak

That being said, while this video may or not be fake it's certainly something the Soviet's did do.

bbfreak

I'm voting for real-ish... there is an expanded video on youtube as well that seems like the full version... by far the most unreal thing in the other vid is a heart beating with just blood being introduced to it, I thought it would need an electrical impulse... zany... looks real but I wouldn't bet too much on it.
Plus, I don't mind things like this being juxtaposed into my day, Giz is pretty tasteful, there's plenty worse.

Mike8606

It is real. Look here:
[en.wikipedia.org]

Ariel_Wollinger

@Manator (Follow me and die!): this is not fake ...

Ariel_Wollinger

[video.google.com]

Ariel_Wollinger

There is a reverse precedent with Mike the headless chicken, who lived without a head for 18 months, growing from 2 to 8 pounds during that time. Owner fed him with an eyedropper. Verified and well-documented. www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/

leMel

It's real, in the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach it goes into this and a guy that was trading heads on rhesus monkeys.

killedbyninjas

hey mr. science guy. next time take a human being for your tests.

krom

Oh fuck this. I quit the internet.

FSeven

@Ariel_Wollinger: Actually that proves nothing, other than whoever wrote the wiki page included info that implies it's likely not a fake.

Again, it seems fake as hell. How does a disembodied head raise itself up? Think about it. No shoulder muscles, the neck muscles wouldn't be connected to anything... yeah.

It's fake. Not saying the Soviets didn't DO stuff like this, but this particular vid is fake, regardless of what some 'experts' opine on Wikipedia.

aphex242

wtf is this even on here for?

There's nothing "shiny new toy" about a fucking dog head.

Fail Adam Frucci. Epic fail. Thanks for fucking up my day. Asshole.

avconsumer

Stick my brain in a Terminator baby ;D

bu11etman

Fake, for the dog to open it's mouth and move like that it needs tendons that reach beyond the shown cut off point.

aussie

They did this in the 70's with monkey heads, the first transfer of conciousness, or proof conciousness resides in the brain, it was dead from the neck down, but could smell, see, scream, and bite at the surgeons. As seen on Stalin's Ape-men on Monsterquest on History Channel, or wiki Dr. White's primate head transfer

eatmonkeygood

"Citric Acid"? I thought this was Russian...

Looks fake to me but at this point I'm sure it has been done no problems; Animals and Humans. All you need is oxygenated, circulated, blood; Nutrients if you expect it to live.

Duc

Calling FAKE for the same reason getting your head chopped off during the French Revolution lost it's charm for me. Sure, you'd be able to maybe blink several times or move facial muscles as the blood drained away and what little bits of o2 were left in your brain's blood got used up. You might even get to open your eyes wide at some bosoms (though probably not blush). But would you be able to leer at some Lady's bosom AND stick your tongue out?
No. The muscles and nerves that control tongues go well down into your neck. Severing the neck even close to half way would make something as simple as licking your lips impossible.

Still, rather messed up Red science propoganda! It's like every time they want us to make an advancement they just do something to a dog. "Quick they got a man on the moon after we faked a dog into space! Let's see what happens when we fake THIS!"

Human Bomb

... why would anyone put a dog through this? This seems very cruel. Would YOU really want your dog to be alive this way? Not being able to walk, eat, or even feel like a "dog" again.

syosh