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Therapy dogs bring comfort to Boston victims
The very same therapy dogs that comforted grieving friends and family following December’s Newtown school shootings arrived in Boston earlier this week. With hundreds injured and many undergoing amputations following the marathon bombings, the K-9 Comfort Dogs help provide affection and emotional release. The organisation works with 67 specially trained…
Dogs help Newtown residents cope with tragedy
Lisa Peterson went straight to the dogs — therapy dogs, that is — when she returned home to Newtown from a business trip to Florida upon learning of the Sandy Hook school massacre. “I saw them and I just had to come over and hug them,” Peterson said Tuesday as…
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