Warriors Best Friend Foundation

08/19/2025

What's next for us, you might ask? 🤔

Our goal is to teach other organizations and individual trainers what we do — expanding our reach and results by helping others do what they do. Our facility canines provide a lifetime of assistance, support and companionship.

Through our programs, we rescue and train more shelter dogs, ensuring that more establishments in need can receive a facility dog as quickly as possible. Visit our website to learn more: https://www.warriorsbestfriend.org/

08/16/2025

✅ Selected
✅ Trained
✅ Graduated

In partnership with Diamond Pet Foods, we launched Operation Enrichment — a joint effort to support our recruits throughout training. This mission provides a consistent source of balanced nutrition, giving them all the sustenance they need to succeed. 👏

Once they graduate, these canine recruits are placed as facility dogs — offering daily support and boosting morale wherever they're stationed. Just like coworkers, they’re on-site eight hours a day, five days a week. While most are placed in K–12 schools, our dogs have also served in psychiatric facilities, VA hospitals, domestic violence shelters and private counseling practices. In schools especially, their impact is remarkable: the principals and administrative teams have seen a higher attendance rate and a noticeable boost in student morale. 🐾

Learn more about our partnership here: dpf.pet/diamond-warriors-best-friend.

06/27/2025

Operation Enrichment, our partnership with Diamond Pet Foods, is enriching nutrition to enrich lives. We carefully select all canine recruits from local animal shelters, then guide them through professional training at our boot camp — fueled by Diamond Naturals® — to ensure they've got what it takes to provide the companionship and support to veterans, service members and students in need.

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Learn how Warriors' Best Friend is fueling service dogs with the balanced nutrition of Diamond Naturals to help support veterans, students & service members.

06/19/2025

Training our recruits takes time, dedication and, most of all, patience. Each one receives one-on-one instruction focused on mastering basic skills, gradually layered with distractions to reinforce their training. We make each step slightly more challenging to ensure those skills are solid.

Once they've learned the basic skills, we take them out into public settings, such as hardware or department stores, where they can interact with various sights, smells, people and objects. We observe these interactions to identify anything that might trip them up and to assist with their ongoing training. This exposure helps prepare our canines for the real-world scenarios they’ll face after graduation.

You can learn about our recruits and our partnership with Diamond Pet Foods by visiting dpf.pet/diamond-warriors-best-friend.

04/24/2025

Here at Warriors' Best Friend, we focus on providing specialized assistance to military organizations, schoolchildren and rescue dogs through our two programs: Operation Schoolhouse and Operation Homestead. To further our mission, we've partnered with Diamond Pet Foods to create Operation Enrichment, a partnership that provides key nutrition for the dogs in training. Learn more about it by visiting dpf.pet/diamond-warriors-best-friend.

03/19/2025

Changing lives — one four-legged hero at a time! 🐾 ✨ Our trained facility dogs provide life-changing support, whether assisting warriors in their daily lives or helping students thrive in school.

Through Operation Enrichment, our partnership with Diamond Pet Foods, we’re fueling these future service dogs with the nutrition they need to make a real impact. Sniff it out: dpf.pet/diamond-warriors-best-friend

02/19/2025

We strive to positively impact the community through two vital programs, Operation Homestead and Operation Schoolhouse, by professionally training rescue dogs and pairing them with individuals and organizations. Through the Operation Enrichment initiative, Diamond Pet Foods supplies the complete and balanced nutrition necessary to fuel these canine heroes!

Learn more about our partnership by visiting dpf.pet/diamond-warriors-best-friend.

01/15/2025

Meet Gracie, a gentle Great Pyrenees/collie mix with a heart full of love for kids. She has come a long way since arriving at the shelter as a stray and joining the Warriors' Best Friend program. Now a trained facility dog at Line Creek Elementary in Kansas City, Missouri, she’s making a meaningful impact. Check out Gracie's inspiring journey by visiting Diamond Pet Foods' blog: dpf.pet/gracie-journey

12/23/2024

We wouldn’t be us without our incredible team: Bella, our dedicated lead canine trainer; Joe, our visionary founder; and Zachary, our passionate facility dog trainer. Through both of our programs, Operation Homestead and Operation Schoolhouse, we have matched more than 100 canines with soldiers, and have 280 contracts at USO and bases in the U.S. and worldwide, and have placed 50 dogs in metro Kansas City and have 90 more requested across Kansas and Missouri to support students with disabilities.

To champion our mission, we're partnering with Diamond Pet Foods for Operation Enrichment, which supplies complete and balanced nutrition necessary to fuel the canine heroes of our pack. 🎉

Check out our partnership here: dpf.pet/diamond-warriors-best-friend

12/20/2024

In a shared commitment to help both pets and those in need, we’ve partnered with Diamond Pet Foods for Operation Enrichment — an initiative that provides key nutrition for the Warriors’ Best Friend dogs in training who eventually go on to serve the community.

Learn more about our partnership by checking out our press release: https://www.warriorsbestfriend.org/press-release/diamond-operation-enrichment

11/26/2024

We're proud to partner with Diamond Pet Foods to launch Operation Enrichment! This initiative supports our mission to improve the well-being of veterans, service members and students by providing our canine recruits with nourishing food and balanced nutrition to help them succeed.

Learn more about Operation Enrichment and follow our partnership journey! 🐾

Learn how Warriors' Best Friend is fueling service dogs with the balanced nutrition of Diamond Naturals to help support veterans, students & service members.

09/24/2024

♥️🐶Kirby is available for adoption!🐶♥️

Kirby is a 2 year old Airedale Terrier/mix. He is incredibly sweet natured and smart. He enjoys training and picking up new tricks. Kirby has a good mix of calm and playful energy, and he gets along well with other dogs. If you’re looking for a friendly and adaptable dog, Kirby might be the right fit for you. He would do best in a home with older kiddos as littles running around sometimes overwhelm him.

He is fully vaccinated, microchipped, and neutered.