Comfort Dogs Arrive In Boston To Help With The Healing

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Therapy dogs that comforted those suffering after Hurricane Sandy and the Newtown, Conn., tragedy have arrived in Boston.

Lutheran Church Charities near Chicago has sent golden retrievers and their handlers to visit hospitals, schools, and other places where they can bring some love to those mourning the bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

"Animals have an uncanny ability … to discern that you and I have sadness and distress," Pastor Ingo Dutzmann of Boston's First Lutheran Church told The Huffington Post. "Rather than shying away from it, they're attracted to it."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/comfort-dogs-arrive-in-boston-after-bombing-2013-4#ixzz2QjRPEHzm

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[get the red out]

1. Dogs are angels

My favorite kind!

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. That's really nice. Goldens are such nice dogs.

And they have really even, calm temperments.

I would like to do something like that with my border collies. Both of the dogs I have right now are really friendly and good with people.

[Wind Dancer]

3. Aww..

Isn't that wonderful? Dogs can be so comforting during a tragedy.

Thanks for sharing.