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.
Every state in the U.S. and the District of Columbia now have per se drunk driving laws on the books. Those laws state that any driver found to have a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08 or greater is guilty of driving under the influence. Per se, is a Latin phrase that means by itself..