Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Why I`m here?





I’m studying veterinary medicine because is a longing that had since when I was six years old. During those years I was a female dog called “Reina”, a beautiful Gordon Setter and I remember when ill took her to a veterinarian friend of my dad and recovered from his stomach pain and he applied her vaccine as per Schedule. Since that time I was fascinated with everything that made the vet, I thought "he's watching the dogs all day and I too want to do that" and I’m here. Although over the years I've noticed that the work of the veterinary surgeon goes far beyond the animal health and he is a professional who can assure us that everything we eat is clean and free of disease, besides contributing to the conservation of endangered species or a facet of that not everyone knows: the veterinarian can also conduct manufacturing processes such as the raising of livestock and then transform it into food for the rest of humanity. One main tools, I believe, for good works of a veterinarian, is the access to technology and information like internet because a veterinarian must be constantly updated to be the best, especially with the explosive number of veterinarians graduating every year at least here in Chile. Now I'm in fifth year I can say that my favorite subjects in all the career were: Animal Pathology, Animal Nutrition and Feeding, Avian Production, Reproduction and Artificial Insemination and finally Gynecology and Obstetrics.
And for to finish I would say that my time in this career has been very difficult, I've laughed and cried at once and as I've talked to several people who have told me that the veterinary surgeon is very difficult because we must learn the operation and diseases animals that are very different. Despite this, I like study veterinary medicine because it gives a pleasant working environment, free with animals and also has a lot of work in field. I do not like to be locked up all day in an office but I would not be all day outside of a place and this career can do both, and although sometimes I regret having come to study this so difficult that I found it all, honestly I am not doing something else.

Monday, July 13, 2009

The most interesting documentary that I've seen!!!


I saw a documentary called “Dog genius” that was on some interesting aspects on the behavior of dogs and how they relate to certain human attitudes. To start I drew attention as the documentary describes attitudes that had dogs, something like "human of four foot”, struggling and doing everything to get their reward: a delicious bone. One of the most interesting experiencies it was about Mabel, a female dog, a beagle cross of six years. Mabel showed us that the dogs know in advance when the owner will come. That is called "learning by association" and in my daily life I see it with my three dogs, when I arrive to my house my dogs are waiting for me and with a toy, ready for play with me. The documentary mencioned that dogs can hear even a distance of more than four times to hear a human so, that's why dogs are the best ringtones there!
Another interesting experiment is that we showed another female dog called Ambula and a researcher at a German institute. This experiment demonstrated that dogs are attentive to the gaze of its owner to follow orders or do something.
And that definitely caused me more tenderness: Donnie, the female Doberman that would be the desire of any dog owner because put in order all your toys! As commented that the owner, Donnie was adopted from a shelter pets; and if a dog that did not even touched a little left of that consent. And that was evidenced in the order that gave her toys, forming triangles which brought together only frogs, dogs or hearts.
What more bring off of this documentary, and that leaves me once again demonstrated, is that dogs are the best animals that exist in the world because is the most noble creature that exists, besides being an excellent company to humans can become an excellent tool if it is given the necessary instruction.