TEHACHAPI, Calif. -- Just over two years ago, Zach Skow was facing end-stage liver disease after battling with alcoholism since his teens. Now, he is sober, dedicated his life to rescuing dogs, and garnering a little fame from Oprah's O magazine.

"'The President is reading this right now,' and I thought, 'Oh God, you got to be kidding me,'" said Skow.

Something Skow never thought he'd hear, but the March issue of O magazine has changed all that. He's featured in a section called "We Like This Guy."

"I thought that sounded pretty good," said Skow. "'We like this guy!'"

That's a long ways away from where Skow was just over two years ago.

"I knew I was going to die," said Skow. "I knew I had no future. Even if I survived end-stage liver disease, I had no future as a productive human being. There was no future without alcohol without addiction. There was no Zach without alcoholism."

Skow needed a liver transplant, but there was one problem.

"It never happened because I didn't have six months of sobriety," said Skow. "I had to wait six months. I had to try to survive six months in order to be eligible."

It was during that period, he started walking dogs to rebuild the muscle he had lost to his illness, when his condition started to improve.

"So I kept walking and adding dogs and finding homes," said Skow. "You know one, two at a time over a period of weeks."

It was then his dog rescue, Marley's Mutts, was born. Now everyday he gets to rescue the animal that helped save him.

"I was so resigned to the fact that I was going to be a worthless human being," said Skow. "I had proven time and time again, I was incapable of living. I was not good at living, and the dogs showed me otherwise."

Skow has been sober for over two years. In the almost two years Marley's Mutts has been running, Skow has found homes for almost 300 dogs.