Who's Luke and who's Lee?
This is Luke.
Luke, Lee.
OK.
You two are incredible human beings.
I just love you.
I could hear the reaction in the audience when I said what
y'all are doing.
OK and you're getting a lot of attention on social media
so this must be amazing that what you decided to do
is actually getting attention.
This is amazing.
I can't believe we're here with you.
This is-- we have experienced a lot together
and this is the most beautiful amazing thing.
Ellen, we are so grateful and so happy to be here.
Thank you so much for who you are and what you do.
I'm sorry, I know.
Thank you so much.
Well, thank you.
We love you.
You are--
Thank you.
Obviously, I love what y'all are doing.
Of course once I heard what you were doing,
I wanted to have you on the show
OK, so you had jobs.
You obviously have loved animals your whole life.
But what made you decide to do this?
Because everybody wants to help and get
dogs out of shelters but nobody quits their jobs, gets an RV,
and travels around.
What made you decide that
It was exactly what you just said.
We were one of those people.
We were talking about it and there was no action
and enough was enough.
It was the time.
I had a job where I was waking up every day asking myself,
what am I doing?
I was going to sleep every night asking myself, what am I doing?
And I would go home every night.
I would see my dogs.
I would envision this.
I would envision rescuing dogs.
And it was time.
And what were you doing?
I was taking photographs of dogs.
My world is sort of behind the camera.
And then Lee and I met and I started
taking photographs of his dogs and I was also living in an RV.
So the idea sort of manifested in that at the time.
I'm a big traveler, as is Lee.
And then we sort of came up with the idea
together in terms of traveling around in an RV and promoting--
The idea is, yes, so you get in an RV, you go to a shelter
in a certain town and then how do you get these dogs adopted?
Well, the thing is that we noticed that most of the videos
to get dogs adopted were really sad and depressing.
Or, they would be of dogs that have been in the shelter
for 20 years and just looked like they've given up.
We wanted to show those dogs that look like they've given up
on an adventure.
We wanted to put the life into the dog-- the real dog,
not the dog that you see in the cage.
That's not the dog that you're going to get
when you bring them home.
So we wanted to show what the dogs were
like once you bring them out of the shelter
and that was the whole-- that was the biggest mission.
You know, throughout-- not my entire life--
but while I've had my dog, so many people--
Because you have nine dogs, right?
Yeah, that's Tony.
They're the best.
Throughout thought having these dogs, and social media,
and all these different things, people
would ask me, where did you get your dog?
Who's the breeder?
Is the most common question I got.
So this was our way of showing people
you don't have to have a breeder to get the types of dogs
that we have.
Right.
Because there are a lot of purebred dogs in shelters.
That's right.
Yeah.
I mean, so many purebred dogs that--
is Bobo a lab mix?
Or, what is Bobo?
Bobo's a chocolate lab.
Right.
OK.
And then I saw there was a Saint Bernard.
Look at him.
Look at-- and they all get along.
Your little dogs-- your chihuahuas-- don't.
Because I have a little dogs and they have that little dog
complex where they go after big dogs, which is a big mistake.
Do they do that to the bigger dogs?
The thing is, is that when dogs do that it's--
in a way, I look at it is a beautiful thing
because it's actually the dog just trying to protect you.
Your a little dogs are just very protective-- even more
protective if they're going against big dogs.
They're fearless.
So what we have to do as parents is tell the dog in dog words
that you don't need protection-- that you
can handle any situation.
The dog has to feel completely safe and confident with you.
When you first meet a dog, they don't know that right away.
But with time, patience, and especially love,
they'll get that.
Yeah, because the little dogs do have-- yeah,
we've been working with ours.
And I've told him that I don't need protection.
I've introduced him to my security.
And you you've gotten over 200 dogs adopted.
They've gotten 200 dogs out of pounds.
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All right.
So go to our website, you can find out more about them.
Shelter dogs-- there is something about a dog
that when you rescue from a shelter
that there is an appreciation you'll
never see from any other dog that understands
that you rescued them.
And it is the best feeling when you
see those dogs come to life, and change,
and all of a sudden blossom into what they're supposed to be.
It's the best feeling.
So go rescue a dog if you can.
Go help these guys out if you can.
And give them money, because they need the money.
All right, well, we have to take a break.
But I want to talk to you more after this.
I have a little something for you.
But first I want to thank Bill Hader for being here.
But I love the work that you've been doing.
So my friends at Shutterfly want to help you out.
So they want to give you a check for $10,000.
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All right.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
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