Spinner had her consultation this morning with Dr. Tony Basher, the veterinary ophthalmologist and surgeon here in San Diego, and she is now scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning.  Because he had not examined Spinner personally, we needed to get through this ‘checkpoint’ to make sure she was a viable candidate for the surgery. Dr. Basher…

Spinner and I made it to San Diego this evening.  I took the photo of Spinner in the hotel room, soon after we arrived.  As I write this, she is sleeping on the patio outside the room.  This being San Diego, I had dinner on the patio about half an hour ago, looking up at…

This is Buzz, a young Golden Retriever that the Bitterroot Humane Association in Hamilton, Montana, asked if we could take.  They told us he has the ‘wobbles’ … a little unsteady on his feet, falls down sometimes, but is otherwise healthy and happy.  We had not seen Buzz yet, but based on what the shelter…

It takes a lot of food to feed the gang here, and this is how it arrives … 2,500 pounds at a time.  We  place a bulk order with Natural Life Pet Products in Kansas and get a great price for this high quality pet food.  They ship it out to us on two pallets,…

Alayne hauled a full truckload of animals to our vets in Helena today.  In the back of the truck are, on the left, Fluff and Puff Hooligan, our ‘barn-cats-in-training’.  They needed another eye exam, and Puff needs another round of minor eye surgery (some tissue grew back where it shouldn’t).  Next to Fluff and Puff…

A month ago we posted a story about Spinner, a blind and deaf dog who recently arrived from a shelter in Spokane, Washington.  At that point we didn’t know why her eyes were completely white.  Now we know. Our vet in Helena, Dr. Brenda Culver, did an exploratory exam with Spinner under anesthesia two weeks…

This baby girl arrived last night at the ranch from the Yolo County SPCA in Davis, California.  The shelter had asked us earlier last week if we could take a blind 10-week puppy who had been dumped in their overnight bin.  Jerry Black, our incredible volunteer who drove to Bozeman on Thursday to pick up…

At first glance the title of this post looks like we’re branching out from dogs, cats and horses … but we’re not.  Turtle and Mink are two disabled cats who just arrived from the Humane Society of Gallatin Valley in Bozeman, Montana.  Turtle is a blind tortie who is already quite adept at finding her…

One of the many beautiful things about where we live is the sheer number of rainbows we get to enjoy seeing.  Our valley is officially named ‘Kleinschmidt Flat,’ after the earliest settlers in the 1800’s, but Alayne and I have often thought it should be renamed ‘Rainbow Flat.’  For some reason — we’re not sure…

You may remember reading about two cats named Bonnie and Clyde who arrived here on October 9th from Austin, Texas.  We had agreed to take them because we’d been told the cats were ‘disabled’ and had cerebellar hypoplasia, making them wobbly and unbalanced on their feet. Well, after a couple of days lurking in a…