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 is the Latin for âby itselfâ, so the & symbol, which was traditionally included at the end of the alphabet, was originally chanted as âand per se andâ (that is, â& by itself is and â). Over time, this was altered into the single word ampersand, and the original phrase was largely forgotten.