It’s getting a little brisk.  When Alayne and I got up this morning, it was 35 below zero.  As Kathryn and I headed out to start taking care of the horses, it was 30 below.  Alayne took this photo when we got back to the house … when it was 20 below.  That’s me on…

Our beautiful blind and deaf cat Angel has lost weight, and in recent days I haven’t been able to get her interested in eating the canned food she’d normally devour.  So I asked our specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, to evaluate her today and see what he could find.  The ultrasound showed no anomalies…

We just posted on our Web site this evening the sanctuary’s 2005 annual report.  In it we describe the highlights of the year and document for our supporters how we used their generous donations.  After all, the sanctuary depends entirely on private contributions to operate, and we wanted to prepare the annual report to provide…

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for an Arctic front moving in late tonight through tomorrow.  Of course, "Arctic" is a relative term for us, since it was minus 8 this morning and it’s just fallen below zero again tonight … this before the new front has moved in.  The Weather Service…

Yes, it’s true.  We’re going to start a monthly e-mail newsletter at the beginning of March, and we just posted the simple sign-up form on our main Web site today.  Look for it under the nav bar on the left.  If you see any glitches in the sign-up process, please let me know.  Right now…

Widget’s prosthetic eye was not looking good again … she was squinting and the eye seemed red and inflamed once more … so Alayne drove her to Helena this afternoon to let our vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, check her out.  Well, we could have called today’s 140-mile round-trip run the "Hypochondriac Express," because Brenda assured…

I had to take dear old Keisha, our 18-year old three-legged girl, in to the vet today to be euthanized.  Keisha had been going downhill for months, losing weight, becoming incontinent, and finding it increasingly difficult to maneuver on her one rear leg … which had hip dysplasia, making it even harder.  This photo is…

Three of our volunteers from Helena came out to the ranch for a full day’s worth of work.  That’s Heather H. on the left, LuAnn W., and LuAnn’s sister Laura W.  I took the photo just before they left to head home to Helena this afternoon.  Heather cleaned stalls in Lena’s Barn, LuAnn cleaned the…

Yesterday I talked with the vet from Great Falls who had treated Bailey two years ago.  He said Bailey had both a slipped disk and a ruptured disk, and although he did the surgery, Bailey did not respond as well as the vet had hoped.  (I think he said there’s a 75% success rate for…

I had to take my cat Willis to the emergency clinic in Missoula last night to be euthanized.  He had been wasting away for months, battling not just lymphoma but also high blood pressure, heart problems, and a thyroid issue.  Here’s Willis in this photo I took a few weeks ago, when he was having…