Comfort dogs are returning to Boston
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BOSTON — Tens of thousands of spectators and runners at next week's Boston Marathon will be greeted by some familiar, furry faces: golden retrievers.
The K-9 comfort dogs from an Illinois-based church organization are returning to Boston to distract those still coping with memories of the 2013 marathon bombings.
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Four retrievers — Luther, Ruthie, Hanna and Rufus — are flying in from Chicago and are scheduled to arrive in Boston on Thursday. Two others — Maggie and Addie, who've been embedded at the Connecticut elementary school since it reopened in a new location — have already arrived in Boston. All six canines (aged 2 to 4) and their human handlers will be based at the First Lutheran Church of Boston on Berkeley Street, four blocks away from where two bombs killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
Last year, the "therapy" retrievers arrived in Boston a day after the tragedy, visiting hospitals and comforting victims, first responders, families and residents in the aftermath of the blasts.
https://news.yahoo.com/comfort-dogs-boston-newtown-152846326.html
