The arts as an instrument of teaching of animal welfare

Abstract

Art is a way of understanding life and the world and manifesting about them, animals were essential to the construction of the civilization of the human species, nothing more just that they be in human artistic and cultural manifestations. According to the guidelines for the curricula of veterinary medicine courses, there is a need to make the graduates have more human and social skills, with awareness of the reality and its importance for society. The proposal would then be to use various forms of arts to discuss in the form of literature review in the classroom the subjects they bring up, so as to foster dialogue and individual opinions and scientific knowledge. In this article will be seen books: Vidas Secas (Gracialiano Ramos, 1938) and Gaúcho de José de Alencar (1870); the Heartland series (CBC, 2007-present); the songs Poncho Molhado (José Claudio Machado) and Atirei o Pau no Gato (traditional and new- Public Domain) and the films of Rio 2 (20o Century FOX, 2014) and Touro Ferdinando (20o Century FOX, 2016). It can be suggested that through the arts one can reflect the animal, the human-animal relationship and its consequences.