How Comfort Dogs Helped Aurora Begin to Heal After Shooting

LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs

(Tuesday, February 26, 2019 – Daily Herald / Eileen Daday)

They've gone to Sandy Hook Elementary School, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and Las Vegas in recent years to offer comfort in the wake of mass shootings.

Now, golden retriever comfort dogs -- trained by volunteers with Lutheran Church Charities, based in Northbrook -- stayed closer to home. Lutheran churches in Aurora invited them to help in the healing process at local schools, churches and with first responders after the Feb. 15 mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Co. warehouse that left five employees dead and five police officers injured.

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