Students get a ‘puppy room’ to deal with stress
College is hard work, but every now and then you just gotta treat yourself to a break and scratch some bellies.
Students at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK took a break from finals stress this week to hang out in a designated “puppy room,’’ designed to both help train the dogs and allow students to blow off steam during the most stressful period of their semester.
The university’s student union organized the room as part of its “Stressed Out Students’’ (SOS) campaign. The dogs were provided and handled by Guide Dogs, a charity that provides service dogs to the blind and partially sighted.
The event’s Facebook page reports that sessions were “fully booked.’’ Obviously. About 320 students attended, according to a university press release.
The move is part of a growing trend at a number of schools throughout the country, including many here in New England. Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School both offer resident therapy dogs that can be checked out from their libraries.
That’s all well and good, but doesn’t have quite the same ring as a campus “puppy room.’’ So how about it, Harvard?
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