PHOTOS: Canine cupids visit children, elderly patients

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Saturday, February 14, 2015
Apache, donning hearts and a frilly collar, is one of several therapy dogs who dropped off Valentine's Day cards to sick patients on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
Therapy dog Bubbles is wearing a pink frilly collar during a visit to the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and UCLA Medical Center on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
Tommy and Tucker show off their Valentine's Day spirit as they visit sick children and the elderly on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
Tova sits in a basket filled with Valentine's Day cards that were delivered to sick patients on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
Robbie Wilson, 17, gets a visit from Bubbles and Tova. The furry pair delivered a handmade Valentine's Day card to Wilson.
Tucker shows off his Valentine's Day heart covered bow tie as he visits children on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
Tova the dachshund is decked out in a pink, frilly collar as she visits sick patients.
A little girl, who is a patient at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, pets Tommy during his and Tucker's visit on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
Volunteers from UCLA People-Animal Connection are decked out in red as they escort the canine cupids around the hospital on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
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PHOTOS: Canine cupids visit children, elderly patientsApache, donning hearts and a frilly collar, is one of several therapy dogs who dropped off Valentine's Day cards to sick patients on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Patients at both Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA in Westwood and UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica got some love from a band of Valentine-bearing pups Friday.

UCLA's People-Animal Connection, an animal-assisted therapy program, brought custom handmade Valentine's Day cards to sick children and elderly patients.