Parkland Students Honor The Therapy Dogs, That Helped Them Cope With Tragedy, With A Yearbook Page

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  All the good boys and girls:

  
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  The yearbook crew quipped on Twitter that Chief McAlpin — a yellow lab — “loves his yearbook,” and encouraged students to seek him out so they could sign it.

  
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  Therapy dogs were initially brought to the school to help teens cope with the overwhelming trauma after a gunman fatally shot 17 people on campus Feb. 14, 2018

  
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  The first of the therapy pups was a Bernese mountain mix named River.

  
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  Diana Haneski, the school library media specialist, who helped shelter 50 students during the attack, adopted River and introduced him at a "Yappy Hour" last summer.

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  Here's a pup getting his picture taken for the yearbook, the dogs were apparently instructed to place their paws on an image of human footprints.

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  The people who responded to this sentimental tweet about the dogs being honor were touched -- but also saddened that they were even needed in the first place.

  
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