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.
It has become well settled over the years that certain forms of agreement among competitors are so harmful to competition and consumers that such conduct should be prohibited outright. The antitrust laws deem these types of offenses as per se illegal, because they will always or almost always result in consumer harm. Examples of per se offenses include price fixing, bid rigging, market and/or customer allocations and group boycotts.