We just updated our Web site over the weekend with stories about several of our recent arrivals, and we also posted the PDF version of our spring quarterly print newsletter.  We’re taking the newsletter to the post office tomorrow, but you can read it on our site right now. Our cover model for the newsletter…

This is Buzz, a young Golden Retriever who came to us last fall from the Bitterroot Humane Association in Hamilton, Montana.  He had neurological damage of some sort.  Our specialist who examined Buzz determined that he didn’t suffer from any sort of disease or disorder, but had been "clocked" really hard on the head.  As…

Blind Bud is a delightful dog with some very bad table manners.  No, not the kind you may think of … he’s not food aggressive.  It’s just that when he gets done with his dinner, he has a very unique way of letting everyone know he’s finished.  It’s his own version of "Waiter, I’m done."…

Our old blind horse Scout has not been doing well in the past few days.  We found him stiff, unwilling to walk, and acting "ouchy."  Our equine vet, Dr. Bill Brown, suspects Scout has a case of laminitis, which affects a horse’s feet and makes them painful.  In Scout, the cause is not overfeeding or…

This afternoon Alayne took Widget to see Dr. Brenda Culver at Montana Veterinary Specialists in Helena for Widget’s final check-up on her prosthetic eye.  Brenda was delighted with how the eye looked and said it has healed exactly the way it should.  Widget no longer will need her medications or eye ointments.  The biggest and…

Our blind and deaf girl Angel died tonight.  She had just been diagnosed with kidney failure only a few weeks ago, but fluid therapy and medications were not enough.  Yesterday evening she didn’t want to eat any food, and the same again with breakfast today.  Angel suddenly seemed kind of lost and vacant.  This afternoon…

One of our least favorite activities in winter is filling the water tanks for the horses.  With 16 tanks ranging in size from 70 gallons to 300 gallons spread across three barns and more than a dozen corrals, filling those tanks is quite a chore. Especially when it’s, say, 8 above zero.  Our biggest problem…

Alayne and I had just sat down to dinner tonight when I looked over and saw this scene:  blind Widget laying on the dog cot, staring right at the fire in the wood stove, with her cone serving as a solar collector of sorts.  (Regular blog readers may remember a recent photo of Widget using…

Beth captured this shot of blind Nikki trying to come in the side door to Lena’s Barn.  Nikki had come to us in 2004 as a blind 4-month foal from New Jersey.  Today she is a gorgeous, stunning filly who is as smart as she is beautiful.  Nikki is inquisitive, affectionate and — let’s be…

Yesterday you saw Travis, our dog with a fused jaw, in jail.  Today he got a complete makeover, courtesy of Kathryn and Beth.  Travis has a stomach tube, and even though we rarely have to use it anymore — he’s learned to slurp his liquid diet out of the corner of his mouth, and he…