Most people don’t get a kiss and a cuddle when they arrive at work. But the lecturers at Sunway University College’s School of Health and Natural Sciences do — from the pets that accompany them to work.
These lecturers have banded together to teach a unique course called Pet Behaviour Studies, which is part of the psychology programme at Sunway College and unheard of in most local universities.
Don’t be surprised if you should see the animals teaching the students in this programme!
In one class, the star attraction is psychology lecturer Dr Cheong Sau Kuan’s two-year-old pet ferret. Dr Cheong would cover up her pet’s favourite toy and every single time the ferret would find it — unless it got weary of the game and found the students’ bags more interesting.
“Pet Behaviour Studies changed my life. I never saw animals the same way again,” Sara Chen Su-May, 21, says aloud amidst loud applause and laughter from the class over the ferret’s antics.
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