Tuesday, May 15, 2012
As School Ends
As there is only 7 more days of school for my sophomore year, I have been thinking of the academics during the summer. I think that this summer, even though I am doing a volunteer program, I will be slacking. The only academics I plan to do is summer reading. But that is ok, because summer is a break from school and in three months, school will start again. Once it does, I will once again try my hardest and study to hopefuly become a Veterinarian.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Responsibilities
As I mentione dbefore, I will be doing a volunteer program this summer. In order to become a veterinarian, i have a few responsibilties that i would like to lay down.
First off is to get comfortable being around pets most of the day. If I am going to start a career that involves about 10 hours of pets daily, I bette rstart loearning now. To do this, I have been spending more time with my animals and doing things that my dad usually does. For example, feeding the goats in the veening, refilling the dog food, and just hanging out with all the animals.
Second, I need to get some experience. The volunteer program is great, but I am going to have to start to learn more about the actual job. Many vets have been accepted into their colleges because of their great community service in the animal industry.
Finally, I need to save up. This college will cost about $200,000 dollars. So far I have about $3,000. This will be a long ways to go but will result for the best in the end.
First off is to get comfortable being around pets most of the day. If I am going to start a career that involves about 10 hours of pets daily, I bette rstart loearning now. To do this, I have been spending more time with my animals and doing things that my dad usually does. For example, feeding the goats in the veening, refilling the dog food, and just hanging out with all the animals.
Second, I need to get some experience. The volunteer program is great, but I am going to have to start to learn more about the actual job. Many vets have been accepted into their colleges because of their great community service in the animal industry.
Finally, I need to save up. This college will cost about $200,000 dollars. So far I have about $3,000. This will be a long ways to go but will result for the best in the end.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Dreaming of what is to come
When I imagine living my dream of being a veterinarian, it is exactly how it sounds, like a dream. But as I have read in many veterinary blog posts, reality kicks in. Veterinarians get bitten and urinated on daily. They have to treat many diesases on pets that may be unknown. Unhappy onwers need to be dealt with as well as owners who can not afford to give necessary medicine.
Me, being the animal lover I am, would try to be a veterinarian in a much broaderer area. By that I mean in a larger area such as a large hospital specifically devoted to animals. These animals can be from horses to dogs, frogs to parrots. This way the animals get the treatment needed and are not suffering as much as possible.
Me, being the animal lover I am, would try to be a veterinarian in a much broaderer area. By that I mean in a larger area such as a large hospital specifically devoted to animals. These animals can be from horses to dogs, frogs to parrots. This way the animals get the treatment needed and are not suffering as much as possible.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Experience with goats
I read another blog once about the difference between veterinarian experience and animal experience. The blogger kept noting that animal experience, such as dog walking or pet grooming, was not the same as veterinarian experience. Vet experience is when a veterinarian helps and guides you with things like injections and taking care of a sick or hurt animal.
Currently, I am part of the animal-only side. Hopefully this will change within the next year or so. I am so fascinated by the ability to save another’s life or just help something that is in need. As I mentioned, I have 40 goats. My dad, my brother, and I usually worm the goats and give them their injections needed us periodically in order to save money at the vet's office. I help lock them into this device that will not let them moved their head. That way, when we orally worm them, there is not a problem. This device is a huge help when we are trying to hold down a 300 pound goat with 15 inch horns! Once the goat is tied down my dad usually injects and worms them. My brother marks them so we know that it has already been wormed. I mainly trim their nails. After a while their nails may get a little out of whack and if not treated, they can turn into ingrown nails. Lucky we do this process once every 4 months!
This experience hopefully will aid me as I enter the world of veterinary medicine. I look forward to putting this on my application and boost my chances of becoming a veterinary volunteer as well as a veterinary doctor.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Summer Preparation
Response to Animal Cruelty
Have you ever loved a pet or a family member so much that you would do anything to protect them? Annually about 7 million dogs and cats are put in shelters. 3.5 million of those dogs and cats are killed. Just think of your unconditionally loving puppy or precious kitten. If they were in danger, wouldn’t you do anything to stop it? All animal cruelty is inhumane including slaughtering, animal testing, and the use of animal skin clothing.
Remember that hot juicy hamburger purchased at McDonalds that was an irresistible $3.99? That meat used to be a living animal, cow or pig, which is now being digested by humans 50 billion times annually. Every second 1,680 animals are killed for food, according to change.org. Every. Second. Most of these animals are only 6-7 weeks old before their death arrives.
On YouTube I have seen an undercover investigation of Conklin Dairy Farm in Ohio. They would beat their cows if they’re sick, old, if they were getting slaughtered the next day, or probably just for fun. A man would tie a cow up and beat it while the cow could do nothing but take in the pain. He would be either stabbing it with a pitch fork or hitting it over the head with a crowbar. Gary Conklin, the owner of Conklin Dairy Farms says, "The video shows animal care that is clearly inconsistent with the high standards we set for our farm and its workers, and we find the specific mistreatment shown on the video to be reprehensible and unacceptable[…]We will not condone animal abuse on our farm." This is hypocritical because in the video it shows Gary Conklin, the owner, beating and kicking a cow while it helplessly lays there.
Another video shows newborn baby chicks being ground up alive. If the chicks are males they are no good and are instantly ground up. If they are deformed, they were left on the ground to die.Think about this when you get some chicken nuggets at McDonalds. Think about this next time you go to a petting zoo, your backyard farm, and realize that that cute little animal may have a death in the near future.
At this moment millions of dogs, cats, mice, rabbits and primates are locked in cold, small cages. They are sitting lonely and waiting for the next horrible experiment that will be performed upon them. When someone walks near their cage, they shake and cower in fear. Once the selection is complete, they are forced to be poisoned, blinded, and finally killed. These tests include cosmetics, chemical, drug, biology experiments, fitness training, and even curiosity experiments. Twenty-five million vertebrate animals are tested with makeup products alone annually. That averages fifty animals an hour that are tested and killed. It may not be the whole truth when one of your products says “animal-friendly.” When invertebrate animals are involved, the numbers rise to 100 million a year. Once these tested animals have done their job, they are killed. Even if the test is a failure, these companies still may sell their products to you, the consumer. Would you want your innocent pet to be part of this process? Realize that animal cruelty is wrong and we need to put an end to it.
Finally, have you ever heard of a “fake” fur coat? Like a fake mink coat or a fake red fox coat. Most of these “fakes” are actually made from dogs and cats imported from China. So although it isn’t the animal you wanted, it sure is a real animal, the common animal living in your home. From person experience, I have seen a video on Facebook of a dog being skinned alive. All you could hear were the painful whimpering and cries as he was losing his protection. Finally he was thrown in a trash can, half-alive, never to be seen again.
In conclusion, animal cruelty is inhumane, whether it is slaughtering, animal testing, or clothing manufacturing. These defenseless animals are killed every second. In the last 5 minutes, five-hundred thousand four-hundred animals were killed.
Remember that hot juicy hamburger purchased at McDonalds that was an irresistible $3.99? That meat used to be a living animal, cow or pig, which is now being digested by humans 50 billion times annually. Every second 1,680 animals are killed for food, according to change.org. Every. Second. Most of these animals are only 6-7 weeks old before their death arrives.
On YouTube I have seen an undercover investigation of Conklin Dairy Farm in Ohio. They would beat their cows if they’re sick, old, if they were getting slaughtered the next day, or probably just for fun. A man would tie a cow up and beat it while the cow could do nothing but take in the pain. He would be either stabbing it with a pitch fork or hitting it over the head with a crowbar. Gary Conklin, the owner of Conklin Dairy Farms says, "The video shows animal care that is clearly inconsistent with the high standards we set for our farm and its workers, and we find the specific mistreatment shown on the video to be reprehensible and unacceptable[…]We will not condone animal abuse on our farm." This is hypocritical because in the video it shows Gary Conklin, the owner, beating and kicking a cow while it helplessly lays there.
Another video shows newborn baby chicks being ground up alive. If the chicks are males they are no good and are instantly ground up. If they are deformed, they were left on the ground to die.Think about this when you get some chicken nuggets at McDonalds. Think about this next time you go to a petting zoo, your backyard farm, and realize that that cute little animal may have a death in the near future.
At this moment millions of dogs, cats, mice, rabbits and primates are locked in cold, small cages. They are sitting lonely and waiting for the next horrible experiment that will be performed upon them. When someone walks near their cage, they shake and cower in fear. Once the selection is complete, they are forced to be poisoned, blinded, and finally killed. These tests include cosmetics, chemical, drug, biology experiments, fitness training, and even curiosity experiments. Twenty-five million vertebrate animals are tested with makeup products alone annually. That averages fifty animals an hour that are tested and killed. It may not be the whole truth when one of your products says “animal-friendly.” When invertebrate animals are involved, the numbers rise to 100 million a year. Once these tested animals have done their job, they are killed. Even if the test is a failure, these companies still may sell their products to you, the consumer. Would you want your innocent pet to be part of this process? Realize that animal cruelty is wrong and we need to put an end to it.
Finally, have you ever heard of a “fake” fur coat? Like a fake mink coat or a fake red fox coat. Most of these “fakes” are actually made from dogs and cats imported from China. So although it isn’t the animal you wanted, it sure is a real animal, the common animal living in your home. From person experience, I have seen a video on Facebook of a dog being skinned alive. All you could hear were the painful whimpering and cries as he was losing his protection. Finally he was thrown in a trash can, half-alive, never to be seen again.
In conclusion, animal cruelty is inhumane, whether it is slaughtering, animal testing, or clothing manufacturing. These defenseless animals are killed every second. In the last 5 minutes, five-hundred thousand four-hundred animals were killed.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Education for a better future
As I said before, trying to achieve veterinary status is a difficult goal unless striving hard to do so. I have read many blogs where they mentioned how staying up long hours of the night in the library was not an unusual occurrence. One blog I read was about a man who had to about 3 hours of sleep a night due to classes in the morning and homework from late night classes. I believe I am smarter to recognize to change my classes to one specific time frame of the day! I am prepared for the challenge of the average college student and to achieve a better life style.
Currently I am taking normal sophomore classes. These include: English 10, European History, Chemistry, Spanish II, and some elective classes. Reading online I realized that to become a veterinarian you must take many science and mathematics classes, such as biology, chemistry, animal science, and physics. Luckily I have these classes offered in my school and am prepared to take them next year as well as senior year. This may seem like hard work, but it will only prepare me for what is to come.
Preparation is key. I do not want to get to college and have no idea what is coming for me! To get a head start, I am doing a volunteer course for 7 weeks at my local hospital. This program lets you do odd jobs around the hospital that can help with volunteer hours as well as experience. Things like physical therapy to patients are offered for volunteers to participate in. My friend Asia is also doing the program with me, so it will be fun to do hard work instead of not knowing anyone!
One big advantage to this is program is the scholarship. If you are a Junior Volunteer, you have the opportunity to get a scholarship to North Carolina State University! Coincidentally, this is the college I am striving to go to. If you do 250 hours of community service there, you will get $1000 to NC State. On top of that, for every 125 hours, you also get an extra $125 for your scholarship. The hospital can hold the scholarship for up to 2 years in case you do not want to go to college directly after high school. This is a great advantage to this program, and I would like to get as many hours as possible.
Getting the right education is half the battle because colleges want to see what you do outside of school. With the sports I do, the education I am getting, and the volunteer program I am doing, I think I have a god change of pursuing my dream.
Currently I am taking normal sophomore classes. These include: English 10, European History, Chemistry, Spanish II, and some elective classes. Reading online I realized that to become a veterinarian you must take many science and mathematics classes, such as biology, chemistry, animal science, and physics. Luckily I have these classes offered in my school and am prepared to take them next year as well as senior year. This may seem like hard work, but it will only prepare me for what is to come.
Preparation is key. I do not want to get to college and have no idea what is coming for me! To get a head start, I am doing a volunteer course for 7 weeks at my local hospital. This program lets you do odd jobs around the hospital that can help with volunteer hours as well as experience. Things like physical therapy to patients are offered for volunteers to participate in. My friend Asia is also doing the program with me, so it will be fun to do hard work instead of not knowing anyone!
Getting the right education is half the battle because colleges want to see what you do outside of school. With the sports I do, the education I am getting, and the volunteer program I am doing, I think I have a god change of pursuing my dream.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Veterinarian
Hey y'all! My name is Phil, and I am currently a 10th grade sophomore. In three years I plan to go to North Carolina State University and study to become a veterinarian. Right now I take many classes, unfortunately none are AP. I am a hard working student, and I strive to get things done. I currently live on an 80 acres farm in a small town in North Carolina.
I love animals. My family and I currently own 3 jack Russell terriers, 1 shiba inu, and 5 mixed cats. We also own three horses and about 40 goats.
I love animals. My family and I currently own 3 jack Russell terriers, 1 shiba inu, and 5 mixed cats. We also own three horses and about 40 goats.
An interesting story I have is about my father. He was born in England and came to America when he was in 5th grade at around 10 years old. He lived in Louisiana and had a job skinning deer for $5 a deer. He also loves animals and was planning to go to college and become a vet. A few years later, they moved to New Jersey. When my dad was in his junior year of high school, his parents realized they did not like America and wanted to go back to England. They gave him a choice to come back with them, but America was the land of the free! He didn't want to go back to the crummy old town back in England. His parents thought differently, and since he did not want to go, they left him. Now my dad was seventeen years old, alone in America. He had no money left from his parents or any shelter. What could he do? He had to get a job and unfortunately drop out of high school. Although it was not his choice, he had to. Now with his dreams of becoming a vet ruined, my dad could only work minimum wage jobs to barely get along.
I’m not sure if this 100% true, but I’m pretty positive, but my dad got a lawn mower and started a lawn mowing business. Between a few years, he had created a landscaping business out of his little lawn mowing business. That was when he met my mother, cutting the grass. They fell in love instantly and within a year, I was born. Going forward to 2006, we got a goat that did not have a home. Within another year we had 3 goats. My hardworking father then started to build a chicken coup to hold the 30 baby chicks he ordered. He realized that he can still live on his dream. We farmed about 20 goats, 30 chickens, and 4 horses by 2010. And in the summer of 2011, we moved to North Carolina. We upgraded our 8 acre farm to 80 acres.
My family loves animals and I believe that I should go and do what I love, to be a veterinarian. Doing the thing I love, to take care of animals, should be in my future.
The job of a veterinarian is to take care of animals, whether they are sick or are just in need of a regular checkup. Whenever one of my pets are brought there I am fascinated by what is done. My plan is to go to North Carolina State University and study at their College of Veterinary Medicine. This veterinary college is ranked third in the country! Altough it is competitive to get into, I believe with striving and hard work this goal can be achieved. In order to become a vet, you need to go to this college for about 7 years. Within two years I hope to go to NCSU and start my new life!
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| My father and sister on our horse Hercules |
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