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Leo the Labrador Retriever McKune Library Chelsea Michigan

Lapping It Up

Library dogs help kids read

by Shelley Daily

posted 12/20/2008

Grace Bowles spreads a soft blanket on the floor at Chelsea’s McKune Memorial Library and sits beside her nine-year-old collie, Cassie. Bowles strokes the dog’s fluffy mane. Like Leo the Labrador and Boomer the Sheltie, Cassie is one of the library’s reading assistants.

 
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