Dogs lend an ear to young readers

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THERAPY PUPPIES- Calabasas resident Troy West, 4, reads a book out loud to Clifford, a therapy dog with Paws 4 Healing, at the Calabasas Library on Saturday. Troy gets a

ittle help from handler Claudine Singer. The program allows children to read aloud to a therapy dog for 15 minutes.