The Goodest Pups is designed to offer research-based resources for rescues and shelters to use in the care and raising of puppies! The goal is to offer documentation that rescues can use, modify and implement on-site or in their foster programs. After working with different rescues, both with on-site facilities and those who were exclusively foster-home based, Christine Mielke felt like documentation was an area that many rescues could use help in.
As a rescue volunteer, Christine Mielke has developed orientations, documentation and handouts for volunteer programs, foster programs and medical programs. She has worked closely with veterinary professionals specifically on the care of neonate and young puppies along with pregnant and nursing dogs.
Christine has fostered over 115 puppies since 2022, including bottle babies, cleft palate puppies and sick/dying puppies. She has also fostered two pregnant dogs and one mom and pups. She has volunteered over 2,000 hours of her time to local rescues to assist with intakes, deworming/vaccinations, bottle feeding, events, documentation, website management, social media and transportation.
With the puppy fostering she has done, Christine has become an advocate for proper puppy enrichment, desensitization, familiarization and socialization. This led her to create a program–KinderPUP–specifically for puppies in rescue, which are often in foster and have unknown backgrounds. Most socialization programs that existed were designed for breeders, which are useful but do not acknowledgment the realities of rescue.
Prior to becoming a devoted rescue volunteer, Christine Mielke was a beauty influencer who was known for honest, well-written reviews and a consumer-first attitude. She retired from that career in 2023 to be able to dedicate more of her time to helping local rescues. She still works part-time as the CEO of a video gaming website but primarily spends her time fostering puppies and assisting rescues remotely by advising on neonate care, content and documentation creation and improving efficiencies in operations.
Currently, Christine volunteers her time with organizations like:
- Love Them All Rescue + Sanctuary
- Follow Your Heart
- Southwest Oasis Labrador Rescue
- Arizona Humane Society
- Desert Dog Project
- Heart of Infinity
- Love Connection
In her free time, Christine cuddles with her own dog, Winston, a 3-year old labrador retriever, and puts together jigsaw puzzles.
