Beth took this wonderful photo of Buzz running through the dog paddock in front of Widget’s House.  He is such an incredibly happy boy, despite his neurological challenges.  Now that it’s springtime, he is out cruising the paddock all day long — it’s a rare thing to see him lying down or even standing still. …

Little Sammy spent the entire Memorial Day weekend in the hospital because of a setback with his diabetes. Early on Friday morning he started another round of obsessive/ compulsive drinking, and then suddenly his back legs began going out from underneath him and he became very wobbly.  He tried to be his normal self and…

Today we tackled a major spring cleaning at Widget’s House, our main building for the disabled dogs.  We have two volunteers, Lisa S. and Christina O., who drove up from L.A. for a few days at the ranch.  They worked with Kathryn all day on this project.  The biggest part of the job was scrubbing…

We always love getting updates about the animals we’ve adopted out, and we were thrilled to receive an email from Heather H. with a report on blind Cookie.  Heather adopted Cookie from us in May 2005 and took her home to the Seattle area, where Heather was in the Navy.  Cookie was a shy, soft,…

The Helena Independent Record newspaper carried a prominent story in today’s edition on blind Stoney coming to the ranch.  The reporter and photographer went to the Lewis & Clark Humane Society to see Stoney on Friday morning, before Leanne brought her out to us.  The reporter interviewed Alayne yesterday for the story. You can read…

Here’s little Wilbur, who arrived at the ranch late yesterday evening.  He came to us from a rescue group in Salt Lake City.  Our awesome volunteer, Jerry Black, drove down to Idaho to pick Wilbur up for us.  Jerry met Kim J. from the rescue group in Dubois, Idaho, which we reckoned was about halfway…

The Lewis & Clark Humane Society in Helena, Montana, called us last week about Stoney, a blind dog a fellow had dropped off at the shelter.  The next day the man’s wife went to the shelter, picked up the dog and took her back home.  Turns out they were going through a divorce.  Well, a…

Beth took this photo today of Travis, our dog with a fused jaw, playing with blind Pepper the German Shepherd.  Because Travis can’t open his mouth, he’s at a bite I mean a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to roughhousing.  He makes up for it, though, with creative use of his lips.  He’ll…

Yes, it’s only mid-May, but it sure feels like summer already!  As I write this, at 4:30 in the afternoon, it’s 86 degrees in the shade.  Our average max temperature for Ovando in May is 63 degrees.  Missoula yesterday hit 90 degrees, breaking a record set in 1905.  The animals, of course, love the warm,…

Here’s a photo I took last week but didn’t have time to post.  I had hauled this crew in to our equine vet, Bill Brown, for various "issues."  That’s blind Luna on the left of the trailer, wearing a flymask.  We had to remove her eyes a few weeks ago, and then she developed a…