My favourite subject

Hello everybody! This time I´m going to talk about my favourite subject. First of all, I have to admit that I love my career, and I´m very happy because the subjects I have are related with topics that I like, and that's a big thing that I have to be grateful !!


Well, now being more specific, I think that of all my subjects at university, my favourite is Animal diversity ( or Zoology ) and I have many reasons: 
1.- Is directly related with animals, their classifications and different species...
2.- It's a kind of "introduction" of my future classes ( I mean, starting to learn about animals)
3.- Is new for me, because in the school we dont see this (not like Maths or Chemistry)
4.- I can relate Zoology with the things I do and see in my ordinary life (not just in class), for example when we saw arthropods in class, and a few days later I was able to recognize an insect, which in this case was a ladybird...and if I see an spider, I will know if it is dangerous or not, depending of the specie.
5.- We make dissections for the science! Is very interesting.
6.- I learn a lot, also it's a lot of memory, but...IT'S SO FUNNY!! :)


In this class, we started from the most simple living organism, (for example protozoa ) and now, after two months and a half of classes, we are seeing amphibians, then we are going to see birds, reptiles and mammals...and Im so excited that I can´t wait for see mammals! That is very interesting and it sounds hard, because obviously, when the organism is more evolved, is also more difficult to study !! But I know that I can do it :) and mammal animals are closer to us.
Here a picture of the animal diversity, in the environment:

The other subjects are absolutely  necessary also, for example in English I have learned a lot of new words that I think I would need to use more than once. In Chemistry I have to start with a good base for advance to others subjects, and in Maths, I can open my mind for the problems I will have in the future, and learn how solve it. 
All the subjects are absolutely necessary for be an excelent vet !! :) 

A person who I admire

This time I’m going to talk you about a man, a person who I consider was important in my field, a lot of people know this person and I have respect for him, because he gave his life doing what he likes: working with wild animals. The person I’m talking about is Stephen Robert Irwin, better known as Steve Irwin. 

When I met him, it was for a television program called The Crocodile Hunter, a documental program of wilderness, where Steve was the brave hunter. Talking about his career, he was an Australian environmentalist and television personality, so a lot of people loved him for his work, I mean, not many people (including me) dare to do what he did in his ordinary life, and live for it: risk his life every day for have an educational and entertaining space on television, something that we can enjoy (more if we are vet students) and learn a lot. His work was based on face animal nature, and it was very dangerous (animals like stingrays, sharks, crocodiles), but he continued doing it at the end of his life. 

One day, a September 4, 2006 at 11 o'clock in the morning while filming a documentary for his daughterBindy under the sea in Queensland (Australia) he was interacting with a stingray and something happened, and he had an accident with the animal. The stingray with his tail, make him a hole in his chest...and unfortunately he died before arriving the hospital. His producer John Staiton, said that Irwin "died doing what he loved", and that’s the reason I admire him and I think he was a very good and important contribution to the community. 

Me and my profession

Know, I'm here to tell about why I decided to study and become a vet. 
First, I think this is an amazing career, and in my case, I would do it for vocation, not for other thing (some people work without dedication in their work because they aren't working in what they really want to, but sometimes they do it for the money they need).
I'm a really happy girl !!...when I was just a child, always I used to thought to become a vet when I grow up...but I also thought in others careers, like to be archaeologist and discover all the dinosaurs, or to be a doctor (of people) and discover a lot of cures for diseases, or a lawyer and help a lot of people, but the time was passing and I was discarding some careers that probably I  wouldn't enjoy all my life, and that was not what I really wanted. 
At the end, I thought that veterinary medicine would be the perfect career for me, work with animals (that I love), have the money to support myself and work with people at the same time...the veterinary medicine is the career for me!! :) 
I dont regret to being studying this, and I'm also sure that all the people who work or like animals is people of good heart.
Well, thinking on an speciality, I'm not sure what I want, but I love cats and dogs and horses, they are really interesting, so the think could be for that specific area, but I'm an open person, so we will see what my future is waiting :)

 

Welcome to my new creation

Hi ! Welcome to My Vet Blog...
My name is Selma Bobenrieth, I'm studying Veterinary Medicine at University of Chile.

First, I would like to say that I love animals (that's one of the reasons I'm studying this) and is very gratifying for me to be and work with them. I have had many cats and dogs in my house, and actually I have two cats, one is called Palomita (she is a white female) and the other one is called Manchita (she is black and white female, with a stain on her nose).
Now, give you a little of time, and enjoy this blog :)  

Pictures from taringa.net


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Well as I said before, I have two adorable female cats. Im going to show you them, they are beautiful and very smart.

Know them:

--> This is Palomita, the white one

She is 6 and a half years ( she was born on september 21). My family and I really apreciate her because we saw her when she was born, in our own home. This happened when we had Palomita's mother as our pet, and one they she became pregnant, and have 6 adorable little cats ( Palomita and her 5 brothers and sisters) but unfurtunately we had to give them, there were a lot just for us! Finally we kept two, Palomita and one brother, his name was Benito, but he get lost in the streets :(  but Palomita is still with us, and we feel she is part of the family.

Here more pictures of Paloma:

--> This is Manchita

I don't know which is exactly her age, because Manchita come to me like a gift, but she is like 7 - 8 months aprox. A very close friend of me gave me Manchita on october, and then she was just a month and a few days (no more than 2 months) and we decided to keep her, but was really hard because Palomita was very jealous ( she was the female cat of the house! ) but after all, she finally accepted her.

I hope you like my pets :) they are very friendly!

More pictures of Manchi: