{"id":1333,"date":"2013-05-21T09:02:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2013-05-20T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:28:26","slug":"pet-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2013\/05\/21\/pet-event\/","title":{"rendered":"A big thank you to Cornell Companions for their volunteer program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Dog_04_30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1335\" alt=\"Dog_04_30\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Dog_04_30-300x259.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Dog_04_30-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Dog_04_30-1024x886.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Dog_04_30.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As our readers know, at exam time each semester we offer a pet visitation event.\u00a0 Our pet guests come to us courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vet.cornell.edu\/services\/companions\/\">Cornell Companions<\/a>, a pet visitation service sponsored by Cornell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vet.cornell.edu\/\">College of Veterinary Medicine<\/a>.\u00a0 The Cornell Companions program operates on a volunteer basis at no charge to the facilities and institutions its pets visit.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Cornell Companions offer this program at no charge?\u00a0 To quote its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vet.cornell.edu\/services\/companions\/goals.cfm\">Mission Statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">&#8220;The purpose of Cornell Companions is to provide the therapeutic effects of animals with the people whom we visit. We strive to educate our volunteers on the beneficial effects of the human-animal bond, and to foster positive relationships between people and animals, and also between different groups of people.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">You can read more about Cornell Companions, the human-animal bond, and the therapeutic effects of animals on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vet.cornell.edu\/services\/companions\/\">Cornell Companions<\/a> website.\u00a0 (The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CornellVetMed\">Vet School&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> is a lot of fun, too.)<\/p>\n<p>We thought you all would enjoy seeing some photos from our pet visitation event on April 29.\u00a0 We had three guests, two dogs and a llama.\u00a0 Thanks, Cornell Companions!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Llama_04_301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1337 alignleft\" alt=\"Llama_04_30\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Llama_04_301-250x300.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Llama_04_301-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/Llama_04_301.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/dog2_04_30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1336\" alt=\"dog2_04_30\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/dog2_04_30-300x273.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/dog2_04_30-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/dog2_04_30-1024x934.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/05\/dog2_04_30.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our readers know, at exam time each semester we offer a pet visitation event.\u00a0 Our pet guests come to us courtesy of Cornell Companions, a pet visitation service sponsored by Cornell&#8217;s College of Veterinary Medicine.\u00a0 The Cornell Companions program operates on a volunteer basis at no charge to the facilities and institutions its pets <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2013\/05\/21\/pet-event\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4537],"tags":[4563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}