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 is generally very difficult to raise a defense to an illegal per se violation. This is because a person can be held liable under per se laws even if they did not mean to commit the act.hus, if an act is categorized as illegal per se, it means that it does not require any additional proof or surrounding circumstances, such as intent or a criminal mindset. Merely committing the act would make a person liable for the violation.