CHALLENGES!

In my opinion veterinary is one of the hardest and wonderful carriers that anyone can choose, it needs a lot of vocation and effort, also I think it can be the carrier more complete because vets have to know everything about many species, and with more work areas.

However, veterinary has some challenges especially in countries like Chile, and now I will talk about that, the challenges that vets are facing in Chile.

First, the technology challenge. Well, Chile is not a very advance country therefore it does not have full access to advance technology, I mean that in some places may have very good technology but no everyone have access to them, nevertheless, Chile is becoming a developing country, so maybe today in veterinaries or in universities that have that carrier doesn´t have advance technology, but it is probably that soon that won´t be a problem.

Second, I will refer to social matters; I think Chilean people are still too ignorant in many areas. Many people think that veterinary is an easy discipline, but they don´t know all the classes that we have to take and that they are very very hard, even at the level of human medicine, and even more, because doctors have to know just about humans and they are not self-sufficient, because they have nurses, in veterinary we have to know about dogs, horses, cows, etc. I think it is not so important that everyone know all the things that we can do, the most important thing it is that we demonstrate that we are the best in what we do and also that we have vocation for this.

Finally, I will talk about educational challenges. To begin with, as I already said, Chile is becoming a developing country, however it still have some lacks, like in education, nevertheless, that it is more in schools, and not in Universities, especially in the “Universidad de Chile” which is a very prestigious University in Chile, but in national matters, there is not too much emphasis in knowing more about some new areas in veterinary, for example better courses about exotic animals or in ethology. In my point of view, the problem is conformism and, of course, the lack of money. One way to solve this might be showing the important job that we are doing, and the important role of the animals, like dog and horses, in society.

ABANDONED BABY HUMPBACK WHALE!

Even with all the development, still are some unconscious and selfish people that doesn´t care about the wellness animals, because they think they are superior, but that just proves how ignorant they are.

Even so, there are people who doesn´t doubt to take a life if that gives them benefit, even when that can affect to a lot of animals, even to a whole chain of ecosystems. This is the case of whales, which for many years there has been indiscriminate hunting, leaving many helpless and homeless calves.

Some years ago there was a case of an abandoned baby humpback whale on Sydney's Pittwater Bay, who made headlines in the Guardian, August 19, 2008.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/19/abandoned.whale.sydney

This whale was only two months old and 5m. Long, it was found on two occasions following and trying to suckle from a whale-sized yacht.

This drama made headlines in many media, and there was much concern about the calf, A spokesman from the department of national parks and wildlife said the calf risked dying of hunger, being attacked by sharks or beaching itself. The big problem was that Australia did not have the expertise or facilities to assist in these critical cases, critical because in wildlife normally the calves stay with their mothers eleven months.

However, in this news doesn´t say which is the cause because the baby whale was abandoned; there are a lot of similar cases, where the calves finally die without their mother.

IMPROVING YOUR FACULTY FACILITIES

I think that it is very cool our faculty, because it is different to all of the other faculties of Universidad de Chile and the others universities in Santiago. It has a lot of green areas, and a lot of dogs and different animals like cows and horses. Also because we can do parties or barbecues every Friday in the faculty!!!

However, the faculty has some weakness too, like the lack of infrastructure, fly overpopulation, the lack of field trip or real practices to have more experience. Moreover, the weakness that I will concentrate now it is “LA GRANJA” (the farm). In my opinion it is very important that we improve the farm, because the animal´s farm need a better and comfort place to live. When you go to the farm you can see horses in very bad shape, the lamas walking on their own excrement, also the space they have are too small for all the animals in there, some of them doesn´t have shadow, like the sprue of the horses which doesn´t have shadow so the water heats.

We are in the veterinary faculty, and it is impossible that we don´t care about the poor animals that live there, with us almost every single day of the year. I think the first step that it is have to be done to improve the farm, is to show to every single student of the veterinary faculty and also to ours neighborhoods (agronomy and forestall students) the really bad conditions in which they are living, the lack of infrastructure and management, so they will take consciences and maybe make voluntary donations revenues to improve and enlarge the place where the animals live, and  also to give them a better care, either food or other kind. Also inform people how they can help directly to the animals or to the infrastructure, so volunteers who want to help will means save money to use them in other purposes, such as better food for 4A dogs.
Finally, the impact and benefits that this will bring is to ourselfs, because we are here because we care about living beings and we want justice and good treatment to everyone, so first we have to start there, where we study, so we will show that we really love what we do.

My favourite movie

My favourite movie is Seven Pounds, a 2008 film. Seven pounds is a drama movie, which his main character is played by Will Smith.

I enjoyed the movie because when the movie starts you do not know what the plot of the film is, and while the film progresses you care more and more, so throughout the film the plot is unclear, and only near the end shows the key to understand all the drama. In my opinion, the movies where by your self have to discover the reason for the development of the film are best as they catch you and make you use the imagination.

The film is about a man, Tim Thomas, that two years before the “present” in the movie, he was sending a text message while driving, which it cause a car crash in which seven people died, one of them was his fiancée.

He felt so regret that to make up his error, Tim decided to save the life of seven people who deserve it. He donates non vital organs to five people, a lung lobe, part of his liver, a kidney and a bone marrow. At the end he checks out candidates for his two lasts donations, one is a blind man, and the other is a woman, who her husband maltreated, to give them the donations, he fills the bathtub with ice water to preserve his vital organs, and commits suicide, and his friend acts as executor to ensure that his organs are donated to the persons he choose. The blind man receives his corneas and the woman receives his heart.