I walked into the cat house this morning to clean and found this sight waiting for me:  Wobbly Mink and one-eyed Lulu rather awkwardly sharing a bed.  Clearly there was only room for one cat in the bed, and that was Mink.  That didn’t stop Lulu from wanting to share the bed, though.  And since…

I drove to Spokane today to meet a volunteer from the Columbia Basin Equine Rescue group, Megan V., who was bringing a blind mare to us from the Tri-cities area of Washington.  Megan’s group works to save feedlot horses that are headed to slaughter, and they buy the ones they think they can adopt out…

I took three-legged Cody in to see our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, today for a recheck on his cancer.  Cody completed his chemotherapy course about three weeks ago, but there were still a few very small remaining lesions at the base of his, um, penis.  Yes, it was a transmissible venereal…

I was over at Widget’s House, our main dog building, taking photos for our winter newsletter when deaf Tyler suddenly sprang to life, hopped on a dog cot, and pressed his nose against the wall.  And then he just stood there, motionless.  He must have remained like this for a full minute, which is a…

Our farrier, Rich Boyle, came out today to trim the horses’ hooves.  Rich comes every 6 to 8 weeks, and it takes about five and a half hours to do the Rolling Dog Ranch herd of 24 blind horses and 6 sighted ones.  In this photo Rich is working on our Belgian draft horse Rooster. …

There’s something about heights that Travis, our dog with a fused jaw, just loves.  I took this photo yesterday in the paddock on the east side of Widget’s House.  Travis would much rather be ON something than IN it.  Like dog houses, for instance.  We’ll look over from the main house and see Travis sitting…

Here’s blind Willie, a Beagle who came to us a week ago from an Atlanta, Georgia, Beagle rescue group.  When we woke up today it was 13 degrees, far below the forecasted low for the night.  So when Alayne let Willie out of the isolation cottage this morning, she put a fleece doggie shirt on…

Alayne took this photo of me spreading compost with our manure spreader this afternoon.  It’s that time of year, when the compost windrows have finished cooking and curing and can be spread on the pastures.  We have several days worth of spreading to do.  Then we’ll start dragging the fields with the chain harrow.  Fall…

I took this photo while Alayne and I were having lunch yesterday and being crowded by some uninvited guests.  That’s blind Evelyn on the left and blind Helen on the right.  Helen is Alayne’s office mate … she basically lives in Alayne’s office, and would rather be there than anywhere else.  But when she heard…

I was cleaning the cat house this morning when wobbly Mink climbed into the basket bed with deaf Snowball, presenting a perfect picture of the all-black cat next to the all-white cat.  I went to the house to get the camera, came back, and took this photo. Once finished with the cats, I scooped poop…