{"id":14285,"date":"2017-01-20T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=14285"},"modified":"2017-01-20T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:17:00","slug":"university-asked-to-stop-locking-the-dogs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/university-asked-to-stop-locking-the-dogs-out\/","title":{"rendered":"University asked to stop locking the dogs out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/bring-dogs-back-to-cardiff-biosciences\">petition calling on Cardiff University<\/a> to reverse its\u00a0decision to ban staff from bringing dogs to work has attracted nearly 350 signatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around eight members of staff at the university&#8217;s Sir Martin Evans building used to bring\u00a0their dogs to work before the ban started last spring.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biology student Claire Astin, who started the petition, says having dogs around the university has &#8220;a very positive effect on both the staff and students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I personally very much enjoyed having outdoor tutorials with my personal tutor whilst walking their dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Stephen Rutherford used to bring his otterhound\u00a0Culhwch to work two to four days a week but now has to leave him at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says: &#8220;Culhwch enriched the whole environment really. A lot of people really enjoyed having him around and really missed him when he was gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PhD student Numair Masud says he signed the petition because he agreed that having dogs in the building would have a positive effect on\u00a0people&#8217;s emotional and mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Vladimir Buchman (pictured above with his poodle Laertis) agreed, saying: &#8220;When a student was under stress and they came\u00a0to my office where I had Laertis, they immediately became much more relaxed and the conversation went much better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The university has previously offered stressed students the chance to pet puppies\u00a0during exam periods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Cardiff University spokesperson said: &#8220;The University is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff and students. Animals can present particular risks in the working environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There are no current plans to review this policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petition calling on Cardiff University to reverse its\u00a0decision to ban staff from bringing dogs to work has attracted nearly 350 signatures. Around eight members of staff at the university&#8217;s Sir Martin Evans building used to bring\u00a0their dogs to work before the ban started last spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[963,956,26,939,313,183,964,955],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14285"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14556,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14285\/revisions\/14556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}