This Seattle training center is helping animals help humans

Canine Companions pairs dogs with the people who need them. #k5evening

SEATTLE — Sometimes we can all use a little help.

“Pick up things,” Luca Keogh said. “Pull my laundry basket.”

When the 13-year-old needs a hand, his friend, Atticus, a two-year-old Labrador Retriever, offers four paws and a generous heart.

“He’s not having to ask me to do things because he’s got Atticus to do them for him,” said Lucas’ mom, Sarah.

It’s all possible thanks to Canine Companions, a national organization with a new field office and training center in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. The facility is furnished with

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