Saved From Death by a Dog on 'Extreme Makeover' (VIDEO)

MY FAVORITE TV SHOW !!! It warms my heart to watch it weekly & wouldn't miss it. GOD BLESS TY PENNINGTON & HIS TALENTED CO-STARS >Paige Hemmis, Micheal Moloney, Paul DiMeo and the many more. THANK YOU ABC FOR BRINGING US A WONDERFUL POSITIVE MESSAGE REALITY TV SHOW. As For All You Negitive Commentors> I feel sorry for you- obviously you lack Compassion & Love for your fellow man. You must be sad and miserable people. Perhaps if you weren't so self centered and did something nice for someone in need it would help boost your own esteem and you wouldn't feel so negative and empty inside. With the holiday season approaching what better time to remind all> Please think of all the less fortunate and help others however you can. "If you can't feed 100 people, than feed just one" ~Mother Teresa. *Even just a smile or a kind word can make a difference to someone * Help a Neighbor* Donate food & goods* Volunteer* Invite someone who lives alone to your home for a meal* Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." ~Mother Teresa

Great show, nice family, Ty has devoted himself to the needs of the less fortunate, Let's thank God that there are people like him still around.
He reminds me of a young Jimmy Carter.

Great going MakeOver. A most deserving family. How nice people in this Country get helped out ---Not just the house but 8 full boat scholarships! There is a Santa.

Someone wrote inquiring about the husband. He is dead and she has been raising the children on her own ever since. She did have homeowners insurance, but just not enough to re-build the home. Was either get the maxium amount if homeowners insurance and then not enough money for food on the table and other bills. I am happy they will now have a roof over there head. I can't even imagine being a widow with 8 children and living in the conditions they did for such a long time.

what happened to the father? is he dead or did he abandon them? or is it one of those 8 kids from 8 different fathers, none of whom offer any support, deal?

I am very please for this lady and her children. It appears that she has been doing what she could for them and the thought of an Idaho winter in tents is simply awful. To those of you that seem to be demanding personal information on her and that want to tell her how she would have lived and should live her life now...where do you get your nerve? Would your lives stand up to investigation under a microscope? Are you so perfect in looks, finances, thinking, etc. that you dare to judge her and hers? Frankly, if it would work, I would wish some really bad luck on all of you and that no one would help you or you would have to answer all your questions you are asking in a public forum for all the country to read and know. Are you jealous of what she has been given? If so take that up with the producers of the program, the network and the people that donated time and material and such to the project. Tend to your own lives and clean them up.

Oh please. God did not bestow anything. There is no blessing. Some people felt like they wanted to help her and all the kids, so they did. No god involved anywhere. If there was, then why did the house burn down and they were put into that situation in the first place? There is no god. The dog barked when the house was burning. God didn't bark. People built the new house, not god. People gave her and the kids stuff and money. Not god.

Nobody should have 8 kids to begin with. How many fathers? Where are all of those losers? The house burned because why? What started the fire? An idiot with 8 kids? Now we all live in freaking tents? What a stupid moron. Can't live in the dang house because it burned? No insurance, no job, no nothing, welfare? But we can put up tents and live on the property anyway. We can wash 8 kid's butts with free well water, nice and cold, and cook everything on a barbeque, but we can't find another place to live? The kids had to be in school. She needed cancer treatment, how did she pay for that? Oh yeah. She didn't. We did. Live off of other people's hard earned money and spit kids out like there is no tomorrow and everyone owes her a living? Well I guess she convinced some stupid people to send it all her way. College and new house and everything everyone else worked for. I don't feel sorry for her one little bit. Lots of people have hardships and don't just beg for everything. A person pulls themself up and makes it on their own, maybe with a little help at first, but I still say a woman does not need to run around having 8 kids and clearly living on welfare. Can't even figure out how not to burn the house down.

Hopefully this will not turn out like the house they built in Corvallis, OR, for the little girl with cancer. Sadly, she died. Her family was forced to sell the home because they could not afford the upkeep and the taxes. Perhaps, instead of such a palatial house maybe a less ostentatious one and provide monetary help with the upkeep. Doesn't make for good TV but it's much more practical.

Where is the deadbeat dad of these 8 children & why did this woman have 8 kids with an unmitigated loser? Not only did this single mom with 8 kids not have insurance she couldn't even be bothered to buy a $10 smoke alarm. If it wasn't for the hero dog this criminally negligent mom's 8 shildren would have been incinerated. Nitwit plantation populations will never act responsibily on any level as long as they know that somebody else will have to pick up their tab. These people are the equivalent of thieves--the only difference is crooks are more honest. The entitlement culture's leeches & lemmings are killing the free market's Golden Goose & bankrupting America.