BEAR VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. -- Animal rescuer Kimi Peck will end her operation and said she is now trying to place about 150 dogs elsewhere.

Peck is now in a facility near Bear Valley Springs but said she will likely leave Kern County.

"I'm shutting down the Dog Angels and Chihuahua Rescue immediately," Peck said. "I'm giving up my 501(c)3, and I'll look back on the last 15 years as a horrible time in my life."

As of Friday, Peck said she had more than 200 dogs at the facility.

Friday morning, a group visited the large home and warehouse off Bear Valley Road. Peck said they were from Humane Society of the United States, but they immediately left when Eyewitness News arrived.

Peck said they had toured the facility, and they're ready to help.

"They went through all the dogs, evaluated them, and they said they're in excellent condition," Peck said. "They're going to do everything they could to help me find other sanctuary for them."

Contacted by phone in Washington D.C., Humane Society spokeswoman Rachel Querry said she had no knowledge of a group from her organization being at Peck's place. Querry said she would check at the state level.

Peck said the group will try to "come up with a plan" for two large rescue groups to take 50 dogs each, and she hopes another 50 can be placed with individual rescuers.

Peck said she plans to keep 46 dogs she is close to who are old and not adoptable. Those dogs live inside the house, and looking through a bedroom window, Peck named off several dogs on her large bed.

"I'll keep the old ones and the biters," she said.

Of the 150 dogs in the warehouse, Peck said many of them are also biters and very aggressive. She demonstrated, putting a fist near one pen where a couple small dogs bared their teeth.

Peck said she had adopted out a couple dozen dogs in the past couple weeks. She listed some border collies and Australian shepherd puppies.

A Los Angeles woman had contacted Eyewitness News, saying she had tried to adopt a dog from Peck. Robin Givens said she was met with continued delays as Peck required more paperwork.

Peck said that dog was delivered to Givens in Beverly Hills on Thursday, and Givens confirmed to Eyewitness News that she did get the dog.

Julie Feiner, also from the Los Angeles area, has tried for months to get back two small Chihuahua puppies that she turned over to Peck's rescue. Feiner said the puppies were born to a small dog that had died. That dog belonged to her mother, and Feiner said she had tried to convince her elderly mother not to let the dog have puppies.

Feiner hoped to save the new puppies and wanted Peck's rescue to find a nursing mother dog. But, when she figured the puppies were probably weaned, Feiner said she couldn't get them back from Peck.

Peck said the two puppies had health problems, and there were delays getting them spayed and neutered. She refused to turn the puppies back over to Feiner.

On Friday, Peck said the two tiny Chihuahua puppies had been sent "out of state" to an adoptive home.

Peck had previously lived in a large home near Tehachapi where she had some 200 dogs. Kern County officials had ordered her out of that location, saying it violated zoning rules.

County officials have been keeping an eye on her operation off Bear Valley Road, too.

That house is the same place where accused animal abuser Cynthia Gudger was found with some 50 animals in filthy conditions in July 2008. Peck said the house is now in foreclosure, and she expects it will go to auction in a couple weeks.

Asked if she will go someplace else in Kern County, Peck said "no."

"I don't belong in Kern County," Peck said. "It's not my cup of tea."

Peck said she'll go back to writing movie screenplays, and she wants to end her time as a rescuer.

"I'll go back to my real life again, and try not to regret this experience," she said.