Therapy dogs have been flown into Las Vegas to help people coming to terms with Sunday night’s savage massacre.
The caring canines have so far visited schools, hospitals, first responders and a candlelit vigil.
They have provided hugs, company and unconditional love to victims, blood donors and others affected by the shooting.
They are part of a group called the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs, which is associated with Lutheran Church Charities.
The marvelous mutts have provided hugs, company and unconditional love to victims, blood donors and others affected by the shooting
They are part of a group called the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs, which is associated with Lutheran Church Charities
Tim Hetzner, president of the charity group, told ABC News the dogs have ‘an incredible sense of when somebody is hurting’
Hetzner started the group in 2008 and has since deployed his 130 dogs to the likes of the Hurricane Harvey disaster zone and to help in the wake of the Sandy Hook and Orlando mass murders. Pictured: Some of the hardened troops deployed to Las Vegas
Tim Hetzner, president of the charity group, told ABC News the dogs have ‘an incredible sense of when somebody is hurting’.
He added: ‘They’ll just come and lay themselves into somebody’s lap.’
The ‘key’, Hetzer said, is ‘for people to cry and for people to start talking about what they’re are going through, and it’s a key part of the healing process’.
The healing hounds have been received warmly wherever they have visited, including when they went to the Las Vegas Convention Center to comfort those waiting for news about their loved ones.
Hetzner started the group in 2008 and has since deployed his 130 dogs to the likes of the Hurricane Harvey disaster zone and to help in the wake of the Sandy Hook and Orlando mass murders.
The caring canines have so far visited schools, hospitals, first responders and a candlelit vigil
The healing hounds have been received warmly wherever they have visited, including when they went to the Las Vegas Convention Center to comfort those waiting for news about their loved ones
The dogs have been flown into Las Vegas to help people coming to terms with Sunday night’s savage massacre
He explained: ‘We only go where we are invited and we never charge who we serve. We try to put boots and paws on the ground within 24 hours.’
Stephen Paddock murdered 58 people in Vegas when he fired at a crowd enjoying the Route 91 Harvest country music festival from his Mandalay Bay hotel window.
Nearly 500 people were wounded in the atrocity, but police are still searching to find out why Paddock committed the worst mass shooting in recent American history.