Johnjay Featured In PEOPLE For Rescuing Over 500 Stray Dogs, “Every Dog Deserves to Find Love”

By Alex Siordian

May 8, 2017

Our dude Johnjay Van Es made it on People Pets all thanks to his #LovePup project!

With the help of his wife, Blake, and their three sons – Jake, 14, Kemp, 13, and Dutch, 10 – the family of five has transformed their home into a full-on dog rescue center. Taking in stray dogs from around the Phoenix area and providing them with medical attention, shelter and food, the Van Es family is dedicated to finding forever homes for their furry friends.
“Rescuing dogs is something my wife and I have done pretty much our whole marriage,” Van Es, 48, tells PEOPLE.

Way to go Johnjay!

Read the full article here!

This was VERY FREAKING COOL! #Zedd was in town today, he had heard about the puppies that were left in a box on the side of the road and wanted to meet them and thought maybe he could get the word out about them! Check out some pics of @zedd and me hanging in his hotel room playing with the #LOVEPUP puppies!! - BTW he has the number one song in the world right now with Alessia Cara #STAY - All puppies are now healthy and ready for new homes and Zedd is helping Spread the word! #Hangingwithmydogs - wait till you see the cool interview!!! 🙏❤️🐶

A post shared by Johnjay Van Es (@johnjayvanes) on May 7, 2017 at 9:26pm PDT

My beautiful big hearted wife has turned my house into an animal hospital!!! Last week it was my driveway NOW it's my living room!!! These dogs have officially taken over our lives!!! Lol and we LOVE IT!! 🙏❤️🙌🐶thank you incredible team at @vip.petcare your crew rocks!!! #rescuedogsofinstagram #rescuedog - getting our dogs chipped and giving them their shots!! #LOVEUP #LOVEPUP

A post shared by Johnjay Van Es (@johnjayvanes) on May 3, 2017 at 6:28pm PDT

First episode of "Johnjay's Doghouse" or "In the Doghouse with Johnjay" or "Johnjay's Guest House" or ??? Maybe you can come up with a better title? If so, post it here! The concept: I interview people and we play with puppies/ dogs - all from my #LovePup Rescue Foundation, ALL that need homes! This episode I sat down and really got deep with @realchrispowell @realheidipowell and I mean deep, stuff they've never shared before. Heavy emotion, tears, laughter, it was amazing! Can't wait for you to watch! I'll let you know where and when very soon! #LOVEUP #puppies #puppy #puppiesofinstagram #fitness #fitnessmotivation #transformation #fitspo

A post shared by Johnjay Van Es (@johnjayvanes) on Apr 4, 2017 at 12:53pm PDT

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