A companion animal is just another word for a family pet. Think Fido and Fluffy. At Pets for Patriots, we celebrate the extraordinary, innate therapeutic abilities of the everyday companion dog or cat.
1 per se (Latin), a Latin phrase meaning by itself or in itself. 2  Illegal per se, the legal usage in criminal and anti-trust law.  Negligence per se, legal use in tort law.
Per se means 'by itself' or 'in itself', and is used when you are talking about the qualities of one thing considered on its own, rather than in connection with other things. The authors' argument is not with the free market per se but with the western society in which it works. Global warming per se is not really the problem; the catastrophic climate changes which might be caused by it are. Synonyms: in itself, essentially, as such, in essence More Synonyms of per se COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary.