Wednesday 7 September 2022 11:02 PM 'Comfort dogs' are being used to greet Uvalde elementary school children as ... trends now The children who lived through the Uvalde school shooting started their first school year since the massacre this week. To comfort the traumatized students, 10 golden retrievers were ready to greet them. Students at schools across the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District are being greeted by 'comfort dogs' as they return to class for the fall semester. Many students expressed fear and anxiety about returning to the classroom. The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two teachers dead on May 24. 'I'm so scared and shocked after what happened at my old school, and I'm still scared and nervous,' Zeke Wyndham, whose fourth grade classroom was down the hall from from those targeted, told CNN on his first day back. 'I can still hear the gunshots,' he said. Robb Elementary been closed since the deadly shooting, and students have been transferred elsewhere. Students anxiously got out of their cars as 10 golden retrievers recruited from all over the country were present as comfort dogs. 'There was a lot of hesitancy and anxiety about getting out of the car and going into the school,' crisis response coordinator Bonnie Fear told CNN. 'So we placed the dogs outside, and I do believe that did help some of the kids see that dog and go, "OK, well, I'm going to go pet the dog,"' Comfort dogs were brought into different Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District campuses to help students returning for the fall school year feel at ease