Trained Dogs bring cheers to the gloom struck families of Newtown, Connecticut who are yet to come to terms with the loss of children in the Connecticut shooting.
Love knows no bounds especially if it is not vocalized.
‘Seeing the dogs led to some of the town’s children smiling for the first time since Friday’s murderous rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, said Tim Hetzner of the Lutheran Church Charities
The dogs, mostly golden retrievers, “bring some relief” to children, and put “a smile on their face, kind of like a teddy bear, but a live one,” Hetzner told ABC News.
Hetzner, who has taken dogs to New York and New Jersey after superstorm Sandy hit in October and to Joplin, Mo., following a devastating tornado, said the animals are “like a counselor” meting out ”trusting unconditional love.”
Hetzner says his organization begins training dogs as puppies when they are about five and half weeks old. It takes a year to train the dogs, making them calm enough to work with the public in post-disaster situations.
Some of the dogs were stationed outside an interfaith memorial service on Sunday night, at which President Obama spoke, eulogizing the 20 children and seven adults killed in a massacre executed by Adam Lanza, 20 last Friday.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/12/dogs-put-smiles-on-faces-of-sandyhook-school-students/
http://lccharities.org/seegers/photos/newsletter/K9%20Brochure.pdf
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