Increase Interest in Kintamani Dogs, Professional Interest in Pet Learning Organization Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Udayana University Held a Public Lecture

 

The Student Association of Pet Learning Organizations (P-LO) of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FVM) Udayana University held a public lecture on Sunday, 27 March 2022, the public lecture was held online through the Cisco Webex meeting. In this year's public lecture, P-LO raised an interesting theme, namely "Explore the Potential of Kintamani Dog Breeding and Its Breeding Technique". This topic is very interesting because of the increasing interest in breeding Kintamani Dogs. This increase in interest is because Kintamani Dogs have been recognized as world breed by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI).

 

The public lecture event started at 10:00 AM, after the participants joined the virtual webex room and registered, the event began with the opening speech and praying, singing Indonesia Raya, and continued with the report of the committee chairperson, remarks from the chairperson of the P- LO, remarks from the chairman of the Student Executive Board (BEM) FVM UNUD, remarks from the PLO supervisor, and ended with a opening remarks from the Dean of FVM, Prof. Dr. drh. I Nyoman Suartha, M.Si who also officially opened the event.

 

Entering the main session, which is the presentation by Mrs. Beatrice who is a very experienced breeder of Kintamani Dogs. The presentation material that delivered by Mrs. Beatrice Prihatna was about the Kintamani Dog breeding technique applied to her kennel, besides that she also shared experiences in running her business in her kennel. After the presentation session, the event then continued with a discussion session. The participants participated in the discussion session enthusiastically, besides that there were also games that participants could participate in. In the end, the event closed with a group photo session led by the committee

 

By holding this public lecture, it is hoped that students of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Udayana University can get to know more about the Kintamani Dog as a germplasm from Bali. This was emphasized by Ilham as chairman of the committee. Ilham expressed his hope regarding this activity. “Personally, I want us (students) to understand more about the industry that we might enter after graduation. We almost always learn about being a veterinarian in a clinic, or on a cattle or poultry farm. So we want to show the ins and outs of another alternative, such as the breeding industry, especially breeding the Kintamani Dogs”.