Virginia

At Paws for Purple Hearts, our motto is Warriors Helping Warriors®. Usually, this refers to our Canine-Assisted Warrior Therapy®, where Warriors help train life-long service companions for their [...]

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Paws for Purple Hearts has kept the connection to our nation’s Warriors alive by using creative solutions. In Virginia, for example, Canine-Assisted Warrior [...]

For the past two weeks, our Ruther Glen, Virginia team has been working tirelessly during Client Training, along with two of our Warriors, Jake and Monty, to get them prepared to graduate with [...]

“I am so excited about in the community this morning and our special guest we have joining us from Paws for Purple Hearts” said Jessica Cash from 93.3 WFLS in Fredericksburg, Virginia as CAO Mike [...]

At Paws for Purple Hearts (PPH), we are not only dedicated to training the best service dogs for our Veterans, we are also committed to providing Canine Assisted Warrior Therapy® - a program [...]

We encourage you to listen to the link below, and invite your friends to listen & share! We are so grateful for this amazing opportunity in spreading our mission to reach more #Warriors.

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 start with field trips when the pup is around 8 weeks old. At this age, we actually carry the pup around in a “puppy pouch” or they ride in a “puppy cart” while being exposed to many different [...]

The Paws for Purple Hearts Virginia site is coming up on 3 years of serving the Virginia area! We are pleased to say that we now conduct four different Canine Assisted Warrior Therapy sessions [...]

Our dogs spread their love to Veterans and Active Duty Service Members all year around, but this past month of February was extra special for our Virginia site. On Valentine’s Day, a very [...]