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SINGING TO ANIMALS: Members of the Creature Comfort Choir sang to an elderly collie named Neva during a rehearsal last week in Woodacre. The choir, which started a couple months ago, sings to animals as a form of easing suffering, whether they are terminally ill or struggling physically or mentally. David Briggs

The paw of a 13-year-old sleeping collie named Neva started twitching last Tuesday evening—a telltale sign of dreaming—as a small group circling her sang a cappella. 

“She’s running. She doesn’t run so much anymore,” said Neva’s owner, Veronica Kleinberg, a Woodacre artist. The group was the Creature Comfort Choir, which formed three months ago in the San Geronimo Valley.

The nascent choir sings for animals in need, whether they are suffering from trauma, a terminal…