Illinois Comfort Dogs En Route To Dallas After 5 Local Police Officers Killed
By Gwendolyn Purdom in News on Jul 11, 2016 7:06PM
After five local police officers were fatally shot by a sniper on Thursday, the people of Dallas will be getting some much-deserved consoling, thanks to a Chicago-area team of comfort dogs. Golden retrievers Luther and Ruthie of the Northbrook-based non-profit LCC Canine K-9 Comfort Dogs deployed to Texas Monday morning "to comfort those who are hurting," according to the group's Facebook page.
The dogs will be working with canine teams from Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, as well as The Crossing, a Lutheran church in Dallas.
K-9 Comfort Dog teams were also recently sent to help those grieving in Orlando after the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, and to a school in Rantoul, Illinois that had requested the organization's services after a student was killed in a car accident in June.
[h/t WGN]