HI!
I'M KIM
Artist, advocate, and lifelong dog person who believes creativity can change outcomes for shelter dogs. My Barking Life exists for one purpose: to help dogs be seen, supported, and adopted.
It started with Bisou — a brindle French Bulldog who had my whole heart and left a hole in it when she was gone. She's the reason any of this exists. Pike and Gus carry that legacy forward every single day, and they remind me constantly why dogs — especially shelter dogs — deserve every chance at a better life.
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Everything I create is rooted in the same belief: when we amplify the voices of shelter dogs, we help them find the homes they deserve.
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If you're here, you're already part of that mission.
Through My Barking Life, I use illustration, storytelling, and community partnerships to highlight adoptable dogs, raise awareness, and help fund adoption fees and training support for families who need it.
THE O-H CORRAL
A friend once told me that one dog makes a house, two dogs make a home, and three dogs? Three dogs is a ranch. He wasn't wrong. We've been calling this place The O-H Corral ever since — a nod to our Midwest roots as we expand our rescue mission nationwide. Even though we're down to two dogs now, Pike and Gus have fully committed to maintaining the energy and square footage of a much larger operation.
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Pike is a Weimaraner-Vizsla mix — a Weizsla, if you want to get specific — and the dog who has never once let me leave a room unaccompanied. He is athletic, sensitive, and deeply committed to being in my business at all times. He's also an AKC Canine Good Citizen, which he earned and I'm still slightly smug about.
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Gus is a German Shorthaired Pointer and the youngest member of the household. He is enthusiastic about everything and apologetic about nothing.
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Both of them show up in MBL content regularly. Neither of them had any say in that.
