{"id":13457,"date":"2025-02-25T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=13457"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:59:51","slug":"the-furriest-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2025\/02\/25\/the-furriest-of-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our furry friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Animals are precious to many in the Augsburg community. Even on campus, some students live with service dogs and emotional support animals, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cwc\/\">Center for Wellness and Counseling<\/a> introduces therapy dogs to help ease stress during the busy times of the academic year. Each October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/\">Campus Ministry<\/a> invites Augsburg community members to bring their pets to campus or submit a photo for the annual Blessing of the Animals service in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, a nature lover and patron saint of animals and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>This spring, we asked Augsburg\u2019s social media followers to share photos of their pets in celebration of animal life in all its forms. Here are some of their responses:[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Click to enlarge photos.[\/vc_column_text][vc_media_grid item=&#8221;13444&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1741700930947-91c23f16-bfe3-5&#8243; include=&#8221;13460,13461,13462,13463,13464,13465,13466,13467,13468,13469,13470,13471,13472,13473,13474,13475,13476,13477,13479,13478,13481,13482,13480,13483,13511,13512,13513,13514,13515,13516,13517,13518,13519,13520,13521,13522,13484&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For more engagement opportunities, Auggie updates, and event highlights, follow us on social media:<\/p>\n<p>@augsburguniversity on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/augsburguniversity\/\">Instagram\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>@Augsburg University on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AugsburgUniversity\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>@Augsburg University on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/school\/18789\/admin\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Top image: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tudents pet therapy dogs during an Auggie Doggie Day event<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hosted by the Center for Wellness and Counseling, December 2023 (Photo by Courtney Perry)<\/span><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Animals are precious to many in the Augsburg community. Even on campus, some students live with service dogs and emotional support animals, and the Center for Wellness and Counseling introduces therapy dogs to help ease stress during the busy times of the academic year. Each October, Campus Ministry invites Augsburg community members to bring their <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":13638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-13457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-2025"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13679,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions\/13679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}