Paws for Purple Hearts has been participating in multiple community events over the past few months and has had the honor of meeting some amazing people, businesses, and other non-profit [...]
On June 27th, Paws for Purple Hearts hosted the first annual “Painting for a Purpose”. In partnership with Wine & Design in San Rafael, Paws for Purple Hearts invited the Bay Area community for a [...]
As we emerge from our cold-weather lairs to welcome the sunshine and warmth of Spring with all her charms, we remain enthralled by the magic here in Alaska and are somehow filled with the [...]
We all enjoy being outside as much as possible. Our state of the art facility has great turf areas for the dogs to spend time on. They do everything from play, train, exercise, cool off and socialize.
Paws for Purple Hearts originally began as a pilot program in association with Bergin College of Canine Studies in 2006. What started as a small program in the Menlo Park VA has since blossomed [...]
The PPH motto is Warriors Helping Warriors®—a motto which stands for the way our Veterans and Service Members care for each other.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! We here at Paws for Purple Hearts hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. This year we have many things to be thankful for including our dogs, Veterans, volunteers and [...]
“Winterization” of the dogs not only involves desensitizing the dogs to wearing booties and dog coats, but also to the regular application of paw pad salve to protect their feet once the snow falls.
Our service dogs in training come from individual breeders that we have carefully selected due to the temperament and health of the dogs. This past weekend we were lucky enough to receive six [...]
. We would like to thank Department President Loretta Marsh and The American Legion Auxiliary for raising over $25,000 to support our work to provide our top-notch service dogs and highly [...]
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