| March 7, 2017
“Lisa Vanderpump has always had a special place in her heart for pups and now the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and her husband, Ken Todd, have opened their own rescue dog center.
‘I think opening a rescue center was kind of our idea of reinventing the wheel for the rescue dogs,’ Vanderpump tells PEOPLE of the Vanderpump Dogs rescue center. ‘I just felt that if we could create a situation where it wasn’t so depressing. People are sometimes slightly reluctant to immerse themselves and go walking into the kill shelters when rescuing dogs. It can be very upsetting.'”