Month: July 2005

  • Pappy, our old German Shepherd who survived both pneumonia and meningitis earlier this month, continues on the road to recovery.  He’s had no relapses since coming home July 15.  His temperature had remained normal and his appetite is great.  He is clearly glad to be home.  (See the post about his  homecoming here.) Although still…

  • Scooter and Sugar, the two disabled dogs we agreed to take from the Hayward (CA) animal control shelter, arrived at the ranch last night.  Their trip to Montana was made possible only because of incredible volunteers.  Garrett and Delores, volunteers from the Hayward shelter, drove the dogs all the way from the Bay Area to…

  • We’re suddenly having banner "issues" with the blog tonight.  Our sanctuary logo is blowing out the margins of the banner one minute, the next it’s too small and off-centered.  We tried re-posting it, then re-sizing and re-posting it, but nothing seems to work.  Oddly, it is still fine on the About page.  We finally submitted…

  • This is one of our weekends when we’re closed for visits, which gives us time to do the basic ranch chores that just have to get done. In between other chores today, we picked up the first of 100 tons of grass hay we’re buying from our next-door neighbors.  For the past couple of years…

  • We agreed today to take two disabled dogs from the Hayward, California animal control shelter.  One is a deaf female hound mix named Delight.  She’s young, about 8 months.  The other is a blind Springer Spaniel … she was dumped in their holding pen overnight, so she doesn’t even have a name.  The shelter believes…

  • Popeye came to us at the tender age of 3 weeks from Spokane Animal Control.  He had been dumped in the overnight bin outside the shelter.  His front legs were bent inwards from a condition known as a "varus deformity" … two bones in each leg were growing at a different rate.  This little scamp…

  • Our old German Shepherd, Pappy, is well on his way to recovering after 10 days in the vet hospital in Helena.  I had taken him in one morning after finding him listless, with no appetite, and a high fever (105.7).  Turns out he had pneumonia.  Last Sunday, July 10th, our vets had called and said…