Oct 15, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
One stray Chihuahua helped spark a rescue mission that has changed thousands of dogs’ lives. Blake shares how she went from rescuing dogs out of her own home to building a thriving animal shelter in…
How was it like having a shelter in your house? Like you were-
It was a lot of chaos.
I imag- 'cause imagine you have 20 dogs on one side of the house, three kids running around on the other.
That cannot be easy.
Yes, we had dogs and kids everywhere.
[laughs]
At one point I think we had like 32 dogs in our house at one time.
Oh, my.
It was just completely chaotic.
But you know what? At the end of the day it was so great for the dogs, because the dogs were able to figure out what was right and what was wrong.
And when we placed them, we had great homes for them because they had already stolen the peanut butter and jelly sandwich off the counter-
[laughs]
... and done all the naughty things that dogs do.
They were just learning from each other.
Yeah.
And they learned to, to live in a pack, which was great.
So...
We...
Yeah.
But how wa- like how was it? W- did your kids help out with the-
Yes
... raising it all? Absolutely.
Our kids absolutely had to walk dogs and clean up poop and everything.
Yeah.
And then we had, for a time we had volunteers come and then COVID came, so we couldn't have volunteers, so our kids were very much a part of it.
How was it like having a shelter in your house? Like you were-
It was a lot of chaos.
I imag- 'cause imagine you have 20 dogs on one side of the house, three kids running around on the other.
That cannot be easy.
Yes, we had dogs and kids everywhere.
[laughs]
At one point I think we had like 32 dogs in our house at one time.
Oh, my.
It was just completely chaotic.
But you know what? At the end of the day it was so great for the dogs, because the dogs were able to figure out what was right and what was wrong.
And when we placed them, we had great homes for them because they had already stolen the peanut butter and jelly sandwich off the counter-
[laughs]
... and done all the naughty things that dogs do.
They were just learning from each other.
Yeah.
And they learned to, to live in a pack, which was great.
So...
We...
Yeah.
But how wa- like how was it? W- did your kids help out with the-
Yes
... raising it all? Absolutely.
Our kids absolutely had to walk dogs and clean up poop and everything.
Yeah.
And then we had, for a time we had volunteers come and then COVID came, so we couldn't have volunteers, so our kids were very much a part of it.
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