This was a very happy day for us.  It started out with our specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, calling first thing this morning to say Wobbles had made a dramatic turn-around overnight and could come home.  Wow.  Even Dave was amazed at the change.  The emergency vet said that about 3 a.m. last night,…

I was getting ready to feed the cats this evening when I noticed Wobbles, our remarkable little cat with cerebellar hypoplasia, hiding in the back of a crate.  He usually comes right up to greet me at the door, so this was odd.  I got down and looked inside the crate, and I could tell…

Our two-year old blind filly, Nikki, is now cantering after just two months of training by our talented horse trainer, Nichole Zupan.  It’s hard to believe Nikki’s very first training session was at the end of April, and here she is, not only being ridden but cantering at a good clip! I shot this video…

Regular blog readers probably remember some classic Widget sleeping photos in months past.  Well, Alayne and I were eating lunch yesterday when I looked over and saw this sight in the living room:  Blind Widget sound asleep on the cot in her own unique "Widget style" position.  I quietly sneaked off to my office to…

I noticed this morning when we were preparing to take horses out to pasture that one of our blind horses, Domino, had a puffy left eye.  The surrounding tissue was all red and swollen, although the eyeball itself looked normal.  And no, he certainly didn’t want me poking around in there!  Beth took this photo…

I headed out this evening with the camera to see if I could find a "blog moment."  (With 75 animals, someone is bound to be doing something!)  But I was barely past our back door when I turned around and saw this scene:  Blind Goldie, patiently waiting by the front of the house for Alayne…

That funny looking little thing in Alayne’s arms is Ricky, an old deaf guy who came to us just recently from a woman in Lincoln, Montana.  (Lincoln is about 20 miles east of us.)  He’s actually quite a bit smaller than he looks in this photo I took this evening … he weighs in at…

I took our blind foal Brynn into Missoula today for an echocardiogram of her heart.  Our small animal internal medicine specialist, Dr. Dave Bostwick, had offered to use his state-of-the-art ultrasound equipment to do the echocardiogram.  (His machine even does cool stuff like color Doppler imaging to trace blood flow.)  So I trailered Brynn to…

This is blind Ashley, who came to us as an 8-week old puppy from a shelter in California in October of 2005. You can see what she originally looked like here.  When she was still a small puppy, we adopted her out to a friend and volunteer, Liz S. of Missoula. Liz is leaving on…

Our pet food distributor delivered our latest order of dog and cat food this afternoon.  In this photo we’ve just opened the back of their trailer, and our employee Beth is doing her best Vanna White imitation to show you the pallet marked "Rolling Dog Ranch." On that pallet were twenty 36 lb bags of…