More than 30,000 US soldiers have been wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan and over 3,000 of them are severely wounded with life altering injuries. Vets Helping Heroes raises funds for the express purpose of providing professionally trained assistance dogs exclusively for these military heroes. There is no Federal government program to provide specially trained guide or service dogs for our severely wounded returning military veterans. The cost to breed, train, and place a guide or service dog with a severely disabled war veteran, combined with the training of the new owner is $35,000 per dog.
So far, donors to HOT have designated $23,550 to VetDogs®. We are hoping that additional donors will make up the $11,450 necessary to supply a "partner" to a young man or woman who was severely injured in the service of our Country.