{"id":24223,"date":"2019-02-15T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=24223"},"modified":"2019-02-27T17:09:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:09:40","slug":"pre-vet-student-find-purpose-in-passion-for-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/pre-vet-student-find-purpose-in-passion-for-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Vet Student Finds Purpose in Passion for Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-I-e1550263076935.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-I-e1550263076935.jpg 472w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-I-e1550263076935-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-I-e1550263076935-299x227.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s the cute and cuddly side of working with animals. And then there\u2019s catheterization and necropsies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love both,\u201d says Rebekah Sartori, a pre-vet Senior. \u201cThe first time I put on sterile gloves and watched a surgery I got so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her four years at UCF are just one chapter in what she plans to be a lifetime dedicated to caring for animals. The affinity for animals started at age 7 when she swore off meat and began adopting pets; her current roster includes four cats and a chinchilla. When it came time to a pick a university and a career the choice was clear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24225 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-III-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-III-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-III-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-III-299x399.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Rebekah-Sartori-III.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u201cI wanted to go somewhere close to home, so UCF was an easy choice,\u201d Sartori says. \u201cAnd veterinary medicine was obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With graduation on the horizon, Sartori has narrowed her focus on shelter medicine. That includes caring for homeless pets, as well as tasks like clearing up parasites and sterilizing pets given up for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>While classes have prepared her to move on to veterinary school, they\u2019ve also introduced her to people just as passionate about animals. Sartori is currently the outreach director for the Pre-Veterinary Society at UCF, which has given her the chance to talk with incoming freshman and high school students. Part of her advice is take academics seriously, because bad grades can\u2019t be reversed. She also prepares new students for the side of veterinary medicine that\u2019s not cute and fuzzy. But she also speaks on the rewards of pursuing a career you\u2019re passionate about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnimals are the most pure thing on the planet. They have no hidden motivations,\u201d Sartori says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There\u2019s the cute and cuddly side of working with animals. And then there\u2019s catheterization and necropsies. \u201cI love both,\u201d says Rebekah Sartori, a pre-vet Senior. \u201cThe first time I put on sterile gloves and watched a surgery I got so excited.\u201d Her four years at UCF are just one chapter in what she plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":24224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology-departments","category-undergraduate-student-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pre-Vet Student Finds Purpose in Passion for Animals - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/pre-vet-student-find-purpose-in-passion-for-animals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pre-Vet Student Finds Purpose in Passion for Animals - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; There\u2019s the cute and cuddly side of working with animals. 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