We were delighted to have a producer/ director from KSPS Public Television in Spokane, Washington, here yesterday and today filming for a story that will air on Thanksgiving.  The program is called Northwest Profiles and will air at 7 p.m.  I took this photo of Bill Fitzner from KSPS videotaping over at Widget’s House this…

We’re going to be at Pet Fest 2006 at the Missoula County Fairgrounds tomorrow.  The show opens at 10 a.m.  We’ll have a booth and our exhibit on disabled animals, and we’ll have the Ambassador of the Rolling Dog Ranch, Miss Birdie, on hand to charm visitors.  So if you’re in Missoula and get a…

Our horse trainer, Nichole Zupan, was here this evening to work with our blind two-year old, Nikki.  I took this photo of Nichole riding Nikki in the round pen.  To the right is Alayne on blind Domino.  The cottonwoods have all turned gold and yellow now, and so too have the aspens.  Today was one…

Alayne and I were getting up from the dinner table tonight when I looked over and saw this sight in the living room.  Our little paralyzed Yorkie, Spirit, was sacked out on a cot, quietly laying there and watching everything go on around her.  Occasionally she’d move her head, but most of the time the…

This is one odd-looking dog, wouldn’t you say?  I took this photo tonight of Travis when I was putting the dogs up at Widget’s House.  He was waiting for his treat.  Part of our bedtime routine is that everyone gets a cookie when they go into their crates for the night.  The problem is that…

I took this photo today of Alayne with blind Stoney on the left and blind Allie on the right.  Both Labs are wearing cones for issues that cropped up over the weekend.  Allie developed what I thought was a corneal ulcer on her left eye.  We took photos Saturday morning and emailed them to our…

Spirit, the little Yorkie with paralyzed front legs who came to us in late August, got her wheelchair today … and she was off and rolling!  (See original post on Spirit here.)  Lori and Chad Holbein, owners of Doggon’ Wheels, came out to the ranch two weeks ago to measure Spirit for her wheels.  Today…

We just updated the sanctuary Web site, including posting a PDF of the fall print newsletter, a new slide show, and Web pages for some of our new arrivals in the Meet the Animals section. Regular blog readers will recognize a few of the photos in the slide show, but others will be new —…

Buzz, our Golden Retriever with a neurological issue, was adopted today by Chelsea K. from Dillon, Montana.  Chelsea had called us a few days ago after seeing Buzz on the Web.  She had lost a Golden of her own a year ago when she was living in Idaho — tragically, it was stolen.  Her dog…

Judging from the number of emails and blog comments I’ve been getting, it seems I’m overdue with news about blind Cinder and her babies.  We had an update in our September email newsletter we sent out last week, but I forgot I hadn’t posted anything on the blog. It’s official:  only two kittens!  We did…