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How these dogs helped lower UNG students’ stress levels

University of North Georgia student Olivia King gets a lick from Snickers the dog Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, at the Gainesville campus as students get set for the stress of final exams beginning next week. - photo by Scott Rogers

12052019 DOGS 2.jpg — University of North Georgia student Olivia King gets a lick from Snickers the dog Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, at the Gainesville campus as students get set for the stress of final exams beginning next week. - photo by Scott Rogers

Blue, a massive great Pyrenees dog, walked a couple of steps and flopped down at the University of North Georgia Gainesville campus’s student center on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Within seconds, a group of students swarmed around him, giving him praise and belly rubs.