Our equine vet, Dr. Bill Brown, came out this afternoon to give the horses their fall shots and do some procedures.  First we did the shots and gave them their wormer while we were at it.  Then we turned to the procedures. In the first photo, Bill is testing the intraocular pressure (or IOP) on…

I had just driven up to the house this evening from a vet run to Helena when Alayne came out the back door.  She was in tears.  "Sugar just died!  She’s dead!," she kept saying.  I couldn’t believe it.  We’d only had this blind Springer Spaniel for a few months, and she seemed to be…

This is blind Levi, who just arrived this week from a rescue group in Seattle.  He had been found abandoned by a highway in eastern Washington, was picked up by animal control, and then scheduled to be euthanized.  Just in time some volunteers pulled him from the shelter and transported him to the private group…

Winter arrived last night with about 6 to 8 inches of beautiful, wet snow.  We knew this storm was coming, so we spent a good part of yesterday pulling all the horses in from pasture, installing heaters in their water tanks, and getting stalls ready.  When we got done late yesterday evening, all the horses…

I caught our little blind puppy Ashley last night snoozing in her favorite spot, a soft round bumper bed that fits her perfectly (but not for long, she’s growing like a weed!). Each time I took a photo, her expression would change. She wasn’t sure what was going on, but she knew I was there,…

Here’s a photo I took tonight, just a few minutes ago.  We were starting to herd the dogs out the door to start the bedtime process, and I looked over and noticed blind and deaf Spinner sleeping without a care in the world.  There is one (and only one) advantage to being blind and deaf,…

The Deputy County Attorney for Cascade County in Montana — Great Falls is the county seat — called today to see if we could take a blind horse caught up in a large-scale animal cruelty case.  A couple has nearly 140 dogs, 17 cats, 17 horses, and other animals.  Many of the dogs apparently are…

I just got back to the hotel room with Spinner, and I’m sorry to report that our blind and deaf dog is … still blind and deaf.  At least for now.  The eye surgeon was not optimistic when he called immediately after the surgery today.  He had found that her right eye was shrunken in…