Our deaf English Pointer Tyler was always a big breakfast eater but never seemed very interested in dinner.  We would try different foods, mix it up in different ways, but usually he’d just nibble at dinner and leave most of it in his bowl.  This was always a little upsetting to us, because Tyler is…

This is little Bailey, the miniature Dachshund with a bad spine who came to us earlier this year from an animal hoarder court case.  I took this photo at breakfast, while all the other dogs were up, the house was bustling, and Bailey was — as he always is — not stirring.  No, sir.  He…

Neal Karlinsky, an ABC News correspondent based in Seattle, came out to the ranch today to do a story on the sanctuary for Good Morning America.  His crew included Jim Bolser behind the camera and Robin Briley doing the sound work.  In addition to seeing all the animals here, they got to watch our horse…

I took this photo yesterday evening, just as blind Dusty had finished eating dinner in his "dining room."  At Widget’s House, our main building for disabled dogs, we feed most of the dogs in their crates, then turn them back outside. We’ve found that feeding goes more smoothly this way, and almost all of the…

Our blind dog Bud has not been doing well the past few days.  He’s hasn’t shown much interest in food, and what little food Bud does eat he often throws up … but not all the time.  He seems a bit disoriented, distant, lethargic, and just not his usual responsive self.  Beth and Kathryn described…

Here’s our wonderful little cat Wobbles, showing us (again) why we shouldn’t have called this place the Rolling Dog Ranch but the Rolling Animal Ranch.  Wobs, who has cerebellar hypoplasia, was in the hospital a week ago with a bout of pneumonia, but as you can see from this 1 minute video clip, he’s feeling…

Kathryn and I drove to Spokane on Saturday to pick up a blind mare who was saved from slaughter by a Washington state group we work with, Columbia Basin Equine Rescue.  They’re in the Tri-cities area, and they rescue horses by buying them from the feedlots where they are destined for slaughter.  This group looks…

Today was a momentous occasion: I rode blind Nikki, our little two-year old, for the very first time.  Our horse trainer, Nichole Zupan, was at the ranch this morning working with Nikki in the round pen.  I said, "Hey, when do you think I can get on her?"  Without saying a word, Nichole grinned, then…

We were bringing the blind horses in from pasture this afternoon when Kathryn noticed a bad wound on Laddie’s right rear leg.  We examined his leg in the corral, and then Kathryn walked Laddie down to Beauty’s Barn and put him in the horse stock in the medical room. Kathryn did the initial scrub-down before…

If you saw our recent post about blind Goldie ("The Lone Sentinel"), you”ll enjoy this story.  Dr. Karla  Mooers, a Seattle-area veterinarian who visited us this weekend (see post below), is responsible for helping save Goldie several years ago and bringing her into our life.  This was when we lived in Bellevue, Washington, a suburb…