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Empowering Lives Through Service Dogs
Valor Medical Service Dogs was Co-founded in 2016 by SFC (Ret) Ernie Rivera and Shirley Rivera, after being severely wounded in Iraq, Ernie spent close to a year hospitalized recovering from his wounds after his recovery Ernie lost more of his fellow war veterans to suicide than his multiple combat tours.
Ernie waited over 3 years to get paired with a service dog, and spent 7 more months helping to finish training his service dogs training, His Service dog saved his life, with his new lease on life, Ernie and Shirley spent over 2 years attending training courses and learning the proper way to train medical service dogs. Ernie and Shirley have spent the last 7 years training and pairing over 300 highly trained medical service dogs to Veterans, disabled children, and Kids with Autism.
Life-Saving Service Dogs at No Cost
Valor Medical Service dogs provide all the service dogs free of charge, with his professional knowledge and personal experience with a service dog, Ernie and Shirley have been able to train and pair medical service dogs for 6000.00 per dog, unlike most organizations Valor Medical Service dogs do not pay any administrators or officers.
Medical Service Dogs are an excellent way to assist veterans and family members. Our goal is to provide all our medical service dogs free of charge. We only use the most up-to-date industry-proven techniques.
Meet Our Dedicated Team
Expert Training and Adopt Rescue Heal
All our training is provided by a professional industry-trained Dog Trainer and Certified Service Dog Trainer. We also Adopt and Rescue dogs and train them to heal veterans all our dogs have been screened and hand-picked to excel from being a family pet to Medical Service dogs.
All our trainers have received industry-leading education and keep up to date on all aspects of dog training.
