Comfort canines at memorial

VISITORS TO the 9/11 Memorial on the 16th anniversary of the terror attacks will be getting some extra emotional support — of the four-legged variety.

FBI Crisis Response Canines Wally and Giovanni (photo), a pair of friendly and amazingly pet-able English labrador retrievers, are expected to be on hand to greet the scores of mourners at the World Trade Center Repository. The repository holds the remains of 9/11 victims in a temperature-controlled environment as the city medical examiner continues to identify them.

While the repository is closed to the public, family members of those killed on 9/11 can visit the “Reflection Room” next door.

“It’s something new we wanted to initiate this year,” a source at the medical examiner’s office said of the dogs. Arrangements for the special visit were still being finalized over the weekend.

Wally and Giovanni — known as Gio — were called in to give their special brand of comfort after the mass shootings in Orlando and San Bernardino, Calif.

“The dogs have worked a certain type of magic with people under a great deal of stress,” OVA Assistant Director Kathryn Turman said last year.

The pair — one white, one black — were added to FBI’s Victim Assistance Rapid Deployment Team in 2016.