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Animal Care Course – Learning How to Live With Animals Can Teach You How to Live Better With Humans

While caring for your fellow human beings can be a very rewarding career choice, choosing an animal care course in order to learn how to take care of animals can also have its own merits and rewards. Animals have their own rights and we as humans have the responsibility to see to it that they are respected in society. Overseeing animal rights entails understanding how they behave, and if we are able to do that then we can rest assured that their rights are respected. Animals have their own abilities that they learn through training and those that they have been born with. Lately, there have been studies that show some animals are capable of logical thinking. This revelation can be valuable in enabling us to understand them in a deeper level, and by extension, it can also help us understand human behavior. A course in animal behavior provides learners with valuable information that will help them understand animals and the causes of their particular behavior. Armed with a solid foundation in animal behavior, students can expect to handle and deal with animals in different situations where their behavior can cause problems to their owners and to the animals themselves.

An animal care course can help introduce you to a veterinary industry career as it will qualify you to work in pet shops, kennels, animal shelters, grooming salons and farms. You can also find work in veterinary clinics and hospitals as animal care specialist. Be aware however, that in some work environments, you might be responsible for euthanizing unwanted animals such as cats and dogs that were abandoned by their owners. Working as an animal control professional on the other hand, you have the responsibility to protect abused, injured, stray and unwanted animals. You respond to distress calls involving lost or neglected animals, and as the first person to arrive at the scene, you are expected to show and give compassion and comfort to the animals you find there needing your attention.

Animal caretakers perform all the necessary duties to make sure that the animals under their care remain healthy. This job can be very demanding but it has its rewards. Your most important duty as an animal caretaker is to feed the animals and provide them with the right kind of nourishment. You also need to provide them enough time to exercise so just like humans they remain in good physical condition. Grooming is important as well, and this includes giving the animal a bath, clipping nails, cutting and brushing hair, and other services to keep the animal clean and groomed. As an animal caretaker, you are generally responsible for maintaining and monitoring their overall health. You need to report to the owners or facility manager any changes that you have observed in them.

With further studies in animal care, you can work as a marine or zoo worker, and animal welfare officer. As a basic course, if nothing else, it can provide you at least with knowledge and skills to become a more responsible pet owner. You will study, among others, common animal health problems, signs of sickness, animal behavior, safety and first aid for animals, routine health treatments, preventative care, rehabilitation care, and administration of animal health programs.

One interesting job that you can do after taking an animal care course is to become a pet sitter. Being one is not just about sitting pets whose owners have gone on vacations, leaving you with their beloved pets that you have to feed, walk, change and clean litter boxes, or do everything to make sure that they are in the same good health when their owners left them to your care. Their owners take care of their pets and as a pet sitter, it is your responsibility to extend that same care and concern to them. Young people can do this in their spare time and earn while doing something worthwhile. You can earn and learn more about animals this way. Just be sure that you and the animal are comfortable with each other and that their owners have informed you about any behavioral problem their pet has. Knowing that the dog for example, is afraid of people with bags will help you avoid unwanted situations.

You can also take animal care course on specific animals such as horses or cats. If you choose dogs, you must be sure that you love dogs and you are willing to learn everything about this animal. Some people want to study poultry care and management and this could lead to a profitable career in managing large and small scale poultry farms.

Animal lovers will love the animal care course offered by Lifestyle Learning Direct. If you have pets, you will appreciate the lessons that teach you how to take care of different domestic animals as pets such as horses, rabbits, cats, dogs, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. You can learn new things about them and who knows, you might be inspired to do further studies and go on to become a full-pledged animal caretaker.

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Liberating Animals

I am very, very fond of all types of animals. I don’t like them to be hurt or abused or slaughtered or eaten. I don’t like that and I feel that when we hurt animals, it is a sign of cowardice because we are more powerful than them.

So it is due to our cowardice and our lack of courage that we abuse animals. Maybe in the past, food, nutrients and resources and all that was very limited. But now in the modern world especially in our country here, food resources are very, very plentiful. So we can get our nutrients and proteins and whatever our body needs from all other sources and we don’t need to harm any animals. The tradition in China of praying and dedicating themselves to Kuan Yin and never harming an animal by taking flesh or bringing flesh into the temple is one of the best traditions I have ever heard of. If you believe in Shakyamuni, Amitabha, Kuan Yin, Manjushri, their nature is the same – not to harm others.

The first fundamental step is developing ‘Tzepei’ or compassion, the first fundamental step is outward. Outwardly take vows, when we take vows, we restrict our body, speech and mind from doing actions that will be contrary to becoming close with these Enlightened Being by nature and physically as well. Close by nature means to develop their character and physically close means to have visions and see them. In Buddhism, when we say get close to a god or get close to a Buddha, there are two ways of looking at it. One is physically close, they are guarding you and they are always around you. The real close is to become like them, to share their nature. That is the ultimate closeness that we wish to gather from an enlightened being such as Kuan Yin or Manjushri.

Therefore, one of the vows we take is not eating meat.

People say Shakyamuni ate meat, so if Shakyamuni eats meat, it means we can eat meat. But Shakyamuni did a lot of things that we can copy but it won’t have the same result. Example a great cook is in a restaurant cutting very fast. I can’t go in there and copy, I will cut my fingers up. It may look like it but it is not the same

People say Shakyamuni ate meat, so if Shakyamuni eats meat, it means we can eat meat. But Shakyamuni did a lot of things that we can copy but it won’t have the same result?

Shakyamuni, Manjushri, Kuan Yin are enlightened. Action that is associated with them will benefit that sentient being, even eating their flesh. Because Buddha is not eating from desire or attachment, Buddha is eating because if someone offered out of great compassion, it benefits that sentient being. So therefore, if we purposely kill and offer Buddha, of course that is not advisable but if it is already dead and that’s from their heart and they offer, it is okay.

The karma that they kill to offer the Buddha is there but there is also good karma from offering to the Buddha. So it will benefit the animal and the being but that is not saying you should go and kill to offer to the Buddha. So for example, if we eat flesh, there is a mantra we recite. We can recite the mantra of the medicine Buddha- Tayatha Om Behkanze Behkanze Maha Behkanze Behkanze Radza Samogate Soha, Chenrezig or Kuan Yin – Om Mani Padme Hum.

Blow it on the flesh and it will help the animal to take a good rebirth. So if blowing the mantra onto the animal’s flesh will benefit the animal then, if the flesh is eaten by the Buddha, there will be tremendous benefit. So you recite Om Mani Padme Hum on the flesh before eating and it benefits the flesh, that means the power of the mantra is as high as the power of the being the mantra represents which, in this case, is Kuan Yin.

In the Sutras, it is said that animals don’t have the capacity to understand Dharma. But by the power of the Dharma, is condensed into sound when it is uttered in a mantra. When you recite and the animal hears it, when you recite and you blow on the animal directly or indirectly, it plants the seeds of Dharma inside their minds and streams through their bodies.

So the Buddha speech arises from his attainments. Then the attainments arise in the form of sound and sound becomes words. The words become meaning and the meaning is called Dharma. Why is it called Dharma? Because Dharma is transformation but the transformation starts from hearing the attainment in the form of sound. That is why mantras and chakras have a lot of power. So different mantras represent different forms of enlightenment.

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
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