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LCC K-9 Anna - Trinity Lutheran Church - Toledo, Ohio
 LCC K-9 Rosie - Atonement Lutheran Church – Columbus, Ohio

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Toledo Comfort Dog Sent To Las Vegas to Help Calm Shooting Victims (Toledo Blade)
LCC K-9 Anna - Trinity Lutheran Church

It’s one thing to watch a horrific mass shooting and its aftermath unfold on television, but it’s another experience entirely to provide in-person comfort to those affected.

Anna, a comfort dog with Trinity Lutheran Church in South Toledo, returned recently from a six-day deployment to Las Vegas. She was one of about 25 such dogs from across the country with Lutheran Church Charities K-9 Comfort Dog Ministry deployed to the city following the mass shooting there Oct. 1.

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​In disaster, trauma, dog brings comfort- ​Alexandra Mester Toledo Blade
LCC K-9 Anna - Trinity Lutheran Church\
"(Sunday, November 27, The Blade) In disaster, trauma, dog brings comfort. Retriever at Trinity Lutheran Church may next be used in court.
It’s difficult to resist petting a 2-year-old golden retriever with deep brown eyes, a gentle gaze, and long blonde locks. After all, it’s her job.

Anna is a comfort dog with Trinity Lutheran Church. She is one of about 130 golden retrievers scattered among 25 states in the nonprofit Lutheran Church Charities’ K-9 Comfort Dog Ministry.

As her title suggests, Anna is trained to remain calm and allow those whose hearts and minds are heavy to release some of that tension by interacting with her."

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Anna Provides Comfort in Kentucky
LCC K-9 Comfort Dog Anna (Trinity – Toledo, Ohio)

(Thursday, February 1, 2018 – WTOL 11 CBS / Abigail Martinez, Digital Content Producer)

She has comforted flood victims in Louisiana and shooting victims in Las Vegas and recently Anna, the Trinity Lutheran comfort dog, visited Kentucky. Anna and her sister Tabby were recently at Marshall County High school in Benton.
 
Anna and several other specially-trained dogs are there to provide comfort to students and staff after last week's shooting spree that killed two students and wounded more than a dozen others. Anna was deployed on Monday and will return home to Toledo Thursday night. Her handlers say the response from students and parents has been "amazing."

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