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Eckerd College bestows a blessed perk: Pets allowed in dorms

By Luis Perez, Times Staff Writer
In print: Sunday, October 5, 2008


ST. PETERSBURG — Apollo, the green-winged macaw, may be the only bird in the city to have attended both a college psychology class and a priestly blessing.

The blessing happened Wednesday at the Eckerd College campus, where the colorful pet lives with his owner, Margaret Lombard, a junior majoring in philosophy.

Apollo, 2, did not seem to mind the loud antics of several dogs, also campus residents, as Father Oscar Kozyra of the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg uttered the blessing and made the sign of the cross on his red-feathered head. Continue reading here.


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