Month: August 2005

  • This didn’t take long.  The little Papillon mix who came from Spokane Animal Control last Tuesday … the dog whose owners dumped her and wrote on her card, "brain damage" … was adopted today!  Mary S. from Phillipsburg, Montana, had seen our original post on this dog and e-mailed to say she’d be interested in…

  • Today was a big day for Pappy.  Our beloved old Shepherd has spent the past few weeks recovering from pneumonia and then a brush with death from meningitis.  He has been gradually gaining strength and mobility.  This morning as I was grabbing my gloves and hat to head out the door to start barn chores,…

  • One of our veterinary specialists in Spokane today examined the tiny dog with ‘brain damage.’  (See the original post below.)  A volunteer, Lee T., had picked up the little thing yesterday from the Spokane  Animal Control shelter, fostered it overnight, and then took it to the vet appointment this morning.  The specialist could find no…

  • Volunteers from the Spokane Animal Control shelter contacted us over the weekend about a tiny Papillon mix whose family dumped her there last week.  They dropped her off on a day the shelter was closed, so no one was around.  On a card all they wrote was ‘brain damage.’  They left no other information ……