Last night I posted some of the financial numbers from our year-end accounting.  Tonight I thought I’d share some of the animal numbers for last year. For instance, new arrivals in 2005 were: 18 dogs — 10 were blind, 3 were deaf, 4 had neurological disorders and 1 had a limb deformity 8 cats —…

If you’ve wondered why we’ve been unusually quiet on the blog front, it’s because I’ve been buried working on year-end accounting for the sanctuary!  I’ve spent hours huddled with QuickBooks, bank statements, receipts, and check stubs, trying to get the final data entered into the computer so I could send the numbers off to our…

A week to the day he went into the hospital, little Cody finally came home to the ranch.  Alayne picked him up at Dr. Dave Bostwick’s clinic in Missoula this afternoon.  Despite having life-threatening parvo, this tyke actually looked like he had grown in the week he’d been gone! He is back to being the…

It looks like Cody is going to survive his bout with parvo and may be able to come home tomorrow!  Dr. Dave Bostwick, our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, called this morning to say Cody is "feeling great, barking and jumping."  He is off IV’s now and in general is acting like a frisky little…

The New Year started off on a great note for us.  Our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, called this morning to say that Cody the puppy is doing better and may have turned the corner in his battle with parvo.  Cody’s temperature is back to normal, his diarrhea has lessened in severity,…