Disaster-hit dogs trained to become therapy dogs

Disaster-hit dogs trained to become therapy dogs

SOMA, Japan - Toru Oki (R), a blues singer who represents the International Therapy Dog Association, holds the leash of a dog in training who was taken into care after the March 2011 disaster, in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 27, 2012. The Tokyo-based association plans to open a center in the Japanese capital in summer 2012 aimed at turning dogs without owners after the disaster into therapy dogs, officials of the group said.

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