{"id":5374,"date":"2017-04-24T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2017-05-03T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T08:18:47","slug":"pets-as-therapy-to-visit-to-kent-business-school-on-9-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2017\/04\/pets-as-therapy-to-visit-to-kent-business-school-on-9-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Pets as Therapy to Visit Kent Business School on 9 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Students at Kent Business School will have the chance to de-stress during the exam period when local charity Pets as Therapy bring five adorable dogs to the Sibson building.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to attend. The dogs and their owners will be\u00a0visiting on:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 9 May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12.00 &#8211; 15:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sibson Atrium (Canterbury Campus).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visiting the school will be Jem (German Shepherd), Holly (Springer Spaniel), Millie (Labrador cross), Daffy (Shihtzu cross), Sabie (Bull Terrier\/ Labrador cross) and Bunty (Golden Retriever). Find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/petsastherapy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pets as Therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interaction with the dogs is free-of-charge, but there will be the opportunity to donate to the charity, which provides therapeutic visits to hospitals, nursing and care homes as well as special needs schools and other establishments.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Neave, Vice-President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/organisation\/KBSOCIETY\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Business Society<\/a>, has organised the visit: &#8216;Everyone is really stressed around exam time and, as a society, we just thought it would be fun to try something new, particularly as we are in the new Sibson building, and hopefully raise some money for a really great charity.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>For advice and help on surviving exam stress, and looking after your mental health and wellbeing, contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/studentwellbeing\/\" target=\"_blank\">University Wellbeing Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Kent Business School will have the chance to de-stress during the exam period when local charity Pets as Therapy bring five adorable dogs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2017\/04\/pets-as-therapy-to-visit-to-kent-business-school-on-9-may\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40044,"featured_media":5379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[5349,177035,170954,142628,164157,37405,397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5458,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions\/5458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}