EVALUATION AND PROMOTION OF THE PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS AND STAFF ON THE EXISTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ANIMAL MISTREATMENT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Abstract

Currently we have tried to relate crimes of domestic violence with cruelty animals. This action is already performing in the USA and Canada,,however in Brazil the issue is not widely discussed, making important the position of educational institutions and veterinarians with proactive attitudes in the context of Shelter Medicine, performing an intersectoral work and involving different levels of government. The relation that mistreatment and domestic violence are kinds of abuses that have connection was class topic in the discipline of Ethics and Legal Veterinary Medicine in the course of Veterinary Medicine at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Norte de Minas Gerais – Campus Salinas, expanded the classroom boundaries and acquiered extensionist nature to the Campus’s community, generating this work, which aimed to evaluate and promote a perception of students and staff of INFMG - Campus Salinas about a relationship between animal abuse and domestic violence. The activity proved to be of excellent professional improvement for students at the same time revealed that the subject is extremely new in the local community and may serve other actions in the teaching, research and , extensionista activities, base of the ,Higher Education Instituitions in the country, which can initiate intersectoral work between the secretariats of its municipalities and/or regions.