This is blind Rosie, an American Quarter Horse mare who lost her eyesight to training abuse many years ago.  She arrived today.  Rosie went blind at the age of four, but her owners at the time kept her because of her sweet disposition.  But two years ago they gave her to another family in the…

We just discovered that little blind Brynn, who came to the sanctuary last weekend when she was one-week old, has major medical problems aside from her blindness. We noticed when she arrived that she peed a lot, but the folks who brought her assured us this was normal for her, and we knew that foals…

Mordecai Siegal, the author of 28 books about dogs and cats, and the president of the Dog Writers Association of America, Inc., just posted a wonderful article about the sanctuary in his column on Good News For Pets.com.  It’s a great story, and it’s illustrated with photos from our most recent slide show, too!  We’re…

This is what our dining room table looked like this evening as I was preparing dinner for the dogs.  The bowls you see are for the dogs who live with Alayne and me in our house or in the dog cottages next to our house.  About half the dogs at the sanctuary are here with…

Just four days after coming home from a two-week long hospital stay, we had to take little diabetic Sammy back to the vet clinic this morning.  Our internal medicine specialist in Helena, Dr. Britt Culver, last week had found Sammy responding very well (finally) to cat insulin, of all things. Sammy seemed fine Friday and…

Our wonderful horse trainer Nichole Zupan now has blind Nikki trotting…and we haven’t even passed the two-month mark in Nikki’s training yet!  Here’s some video I took of Nichole riding Nikki at a trot.  You can tell Nikki is still getting used to the idea, but trot she does! http://www.dropshots.com/dropshotsplayer.swf

Here’s our newest arrival, a blind foal named Brynn who came late this afternoon.  A few days ago we had a call from a lady in Helena, who said her mare had just delivered a blind baby but her boarding facility wouldn’t let her keep the foal there.  She had, in fact, been given an…

Our first annual "Road Trip" event at Caras Park in downtown Missoula on Saturday was a great success!  We woke up to a drenching downpour and groaned, but by the time we got started at 10 a.m., the rain had finally quit and people started venturing outside.  The turnout actually exceeded our expectations, and the…

We’re taking several of our disabled animals on a ‘road trip’ today to the Caras Park Pavilion in downtown Missoula.  It’s part meet-the-animals, part fundraiser.  We’ll be at Caras Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  If you happen to be in the Missoula area, we hope you can stop by and see us!  (Click…

Our vet in Helena, Dr. Brenda Culver, called today to say Sammy could finally come home after two weeks in the hospital.  It had taken this long to get his diabetes under control, with repeated glucose curve tests, changes in dosage, changes in insulin types, and constant monitoring.  So Alayne made the 70-mile trip to…