We just agreed to take a blind, 9-year old female Dachshund named Callie.  The Bitterroot Humane Association in Hamilton, Montana, called us about her yesterday.  We had the shelter drop her off at a vet clinic in Missoula today for a medical and eye exam, and Alayne will go into town tomorrow to pick her…

Okay, so this may not look like a waiter with a dinner tray and fancy linen to you, but to our horses, this is room service indeed.  After a day of snow and temperatures that barely got above 20 degrees, for the horses there is no finer sight than a tractor carrying 500 pounds of…

Our fabulous graphic designer, Terrel Armstrong, just set up our new slide show this evening.  The photos were taken by a Missoula photographer, Logan Castor Parson, earlier this summer for a wedding that occurred in October.  The bride and groom are wonderful friends and supporters of the sanctuary, and they wanted their wedding guests to…

We updated the Web site over the holiday weekend and posted our new arrivals as well as the digital version of our new winter newsletter.  We also had some great news to announce with Pappy’s Fund!  You can see it all from our Web site home page here. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We…

Our two new arrivals saw their respective vets today. This morning I took Timmy the paralyzed black Lab to our specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, for an evaluation.  Dave concluded that Timmy’s problem is neurological in origin and that he didn’t have any form of muscular dystrophy.  He also doubted that Timmy had cerebellar…

On Saturday morning I left before dawn with the horse trailer. It was dark, 14 degrees above zero, and an impenetrable freezing fog kept visibility to 20 yards.  I was headed to Spokane, Washington, to get a blind horse that a rescue group had just saved from slaughter.  On the way I stopped in Missoula…

We had just gotten up this morning, and I was in the office checking e-mails while Alayne went to make coffee.  Suddenly she called to me from the living room.  "Come look at this!," she said.  "Quick!"  I got up and dashed out of the office, and she motioned to me to come over to…

Alayne brought blind Cedar home from the vet hospital in Helena this morning.  He’d been there for several days, after having a tumor on his chest removed.  In the photo Alayne is pulling his skin up so you can see where the surgery was, just below her hand.  I thought the surgery site would be…

As I post this, Alayne is in Helena tonight hosting a table at an event called ‘Great Conversations.’  It’s an annual fund-raising dinner for the Helena Education Foundation.  They invite 45 people who are considered to be doing "interesting things" and ask them to host a table and lead a conversation about a topic of…

When we were putting all the animals up last night around 9:30 p.m., the snow was coming down steadily.  Sometime overnight the wind came up and started hammering the snow in sideways.  This morning every west-facing wall is covered in snow.  I took the photo at dawn today. You can see two of our horses,…