Alayne took two calls in the last 24 hours from people whose horses had gone blind, and their vets had told them they should just put the animals down.  Both individuals actually wanted to keep their blind horses, and had called us seeking more information on how to care for them. This, unfortunately, we see…

Who ever came up with the saying, ‘working like a dog?’  Really, do you think they had a dog?  The only thing our guys work hard at is sleeping.  Alayne fixed up a new bed last weekend … actually a couple of West Paw beds piled on top of a Kuranda dog cot, topped with…

This is a scene that happens often around the house.  Burrowed deep in a pile of dog bedding on the favorite ‘sleeping chair’ is Oscar the elderly miniature Dachshund.  Looming over him is Widget, our blind Beagle/Dachshund mix.  She is determined to sleep in that chair.  So her chair-stealing strategy is to climb up the…

We just learned yesterday afternoon that a kind person donated $200 worth of advertising for the sanctuary on an innovative Web site called New West.  The site is "devoted to the culture, economy, politics, environment and overall atmosphere of the Rocky Mountain West."  If you want to know what’s going on across the Rockies, this…

Bonnie and Clyde, a brother and sister pair of cats, arrived at the ranch last night.  Jerry Black, our awesome volunteer who serves as ‘animal chauffeur,’ picked them up at the Missoula airport and brought them out to the ranch. These cats have cerebellar hypoplasia, a neurological condition that affects their fine motor skills and…

We got up this morning and found that Allie, our wobbly puppy with cerebellar hypoplasia, had managed overnight to chew open her spay sutures.  We had just brought her and the other recently spayed girls back from the clinic yesterday afternoon.  Not only did she have a wide-open slit into her abdomen, but it had…

Our equine vet, Dr. Bill Brown, came out today to examine our blind mare Madison.  The Idaho Humane Society brought Madison to us a couple of months ago.  Shortly before leaving their Boise rescue ranch for the trip to Montana, Madison had been kicked in the jaw by another horse.  The Idaho Humane Society folks…

This morning Alayne hauled a truckload of animals to our vets in Helena at Montana Veterinary Specialists.  In the photo are blind and deaf  Spinner on the left and Allie with cerebellar hypoplasia on the right (look for pink tongue, that’s all you can see!).  Behind them in a crate is deaf Scooter, and in…

One of our fabulous volunteers, Laura W. from Helena, came out today to give us a hand.  The weather was cold and drizzly.  I had the perfect project for a day like this:  setting up the stalls in Beauty’s Barn.  Murdoch’s, a farm and ranch supply outfit in Helena, last week had delivered $5,900 worth…