It's another working weekend for the San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society as they spend all day Saturday loading, transporting, and hoping their van full of dogs and puppies will be adopted.

"The dog and puppy adoption money runs our shelter, that's the main money we have to keep going," Aileen Peek, of San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society said.

Aileen Peek and her husband founded the no kill animal shelter back in 2000, mortgaging their house to buy the shelter because they couldn't get a loan from the bank.

So, for the last eight years she's been making the 7-hour roundtrip drive from Alamosa to Colorado Springs to help cover her costs.

"She must be God sent. She is somebody that I look up to and admire and would like to be. I'm not as strong as her but I do my best to help her," Babette Fischer, a volunteer with the San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society said.

The biggest thing that would help Aileen and the animal shelter is reliable transport.

Their bus has broken down so many times Peek said AAA won't tow them anymore.

"We just had the engine replaced about two months ago and it lasted six weeks. So we had another engine put in and I think we've been towed about five times in the last two years in the various vehicles we used," Peek said.

If you would like to make a donation or donate your time to the San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society you can contact them at www.slvaws.org