By Skylar Carrignan, Currier Times Staff///

In previous years, Curry College’s Student Entertainment and Events club (SEE) has hosted goat yoga which has always been a hit. This year, the group decided to switch it up and roll out puppy yoga. Puppy yoga was a sought out event for weeks leading up to the actual day.

Madison Burrell and Chelsea Chamberlain said that when coming up with events for the semester, everyone knew that this would be the perfect stress reliever with midterms approaching.

For dog lovers, this was an ideal way to break up the semester. A group of dogs were brought in from Last Hope K9 Rescue. Patches, Sammy and other pups came ready to play. Some were ready to sleep, and some could not slow down.

Students gasped as the puppies arrived and the puppies were just as excited to see those students. Puppies ran laps around the groups of students but accepted any love the students had to offer. Groups of students surrounded a puppy before the puppy would rotate to another group.

Mats were spread across the front of the gym awaiting the yoga session to begin. Students laughed as the puppies were anything but cooperative.

Madison Lavallee, a Nursing student at Curry, knew she had to go to this event when it was announced. Madison has two dogs at home that she requests pictures of everyday from her parents. She knew that this would be the next best thing from seeing her dogs.

“Immediately after, I told my mom that we need to adopt one of the puppies from puppy yoga,” said Lavallee. “They all had such different personalities that made the event even more than just a yoga session.”

Rachael Sanford, a Psychology student in the Class of 2025, decided to go to the event because of the yoga factor. Rachael has been seeking out yoga classes locally and when one popped up on campus she signed up instantly. Rachael is also a dog lover and took this opportunity to combine two things that she loved.

“As much as I was excited for the yoga class, it instantly became about the dogs for me,” said Sanford. “I couldn’t even focus on the yoga class because I wanted to give any dog that came near me attention!”

Distracted dogs took in all the scratches they could get and climbed on top over every and any student that would let them. Students laughed as this was the least productive yoga session anyone could imagine.

Sophia Moore appreciated the time with the dogs but wished that there were more. With only a handful of dogs, there were not nearly enough dogs for students to have an adequate amount of time with a pup.

“I didn’t have as much time with the puppies as I had hoped for.,” said Moore. “At some points we would be sitting there waiting for a dog to come by because there were too many students compared to dogs.”

For those who were fans of goat yoga, don’t worry. Goat yoga will be returning in the spring as another opportunity to wind down with yoga and animals.