Blind Callie, Dachshund No. 4, offered up a hard-to-ignore photo op today.  Callie was apparently a bit miffed that she only had a passing mention in Monday’s blog about the "other" Dachshunds.  (All "minis," she points out a bit huffily.  "Not much to them.")  As this photo makes clear, there’s definitely a LOT to this…

I was moving 10 tons of big round hay bales this afternoon with the tractor and kept looking at the stunning view off in the distance.  So just before moving the final bale, I stopped at the house and picked up the camera to take this shot.  The bale in front weighs about 1,200 pounds,…

The Dachshunds at the ranch just love the woodstove in our living room.  Whenever we have a fire going — which is every night this time of year — there’s always a Dachshund nearby, sometimes all of them.  I took this photo tonight, shortly after Alayne and I had come in from feeding the horses…

We wish we knew why the story about the sanctuary didn’t air on Good Morning America on Thanksgiving or Friday.  To everyone who watched GMA both days waiting to see it, sorry!  We knew there were no guarantees that the story would run, but still, we were disappointed.  I think it’s just in the nature…

I’ve been trying for a year to get this photo.  That’s Wobbles on the left sharing the basket bed with Claire.  It’s the first time since Claire arrived last December that I’ve seen them together like this … so when I walked into the cat house this weekend and saw them side-by-side, I quickly left…

Tyler, a deaf English Pointer, has been with us at the ranch for several years.  He lives at Widget’s House, our main building for disabled dogs, and has his choice of three different comfy dog beds to sleep on at night.  Earlier this week, I was startled to go over one morning and find him…

Some faithful blog readers may remember that back in July we had a crew here from ABC News to tape a story for Good Morning America.  Well, after more than four months of anxiously waiting to hear when the story would air — and beginning to doubt if  it ever would! — we finally heard…

This is little Daisy, a miniature Dachshund who arrived today from a rescue group in the Salt Lake City area.  They had pulled her from the City of Ogden shelter, where she had been surrendered, adopted twice and brought back each time.  At that point they considered her ‘unadoptable.’  Daisy has a spinal problem which…

Here at the Rolling Dog Ranch Hotel & Spa, it seems one of our primary roles is to serve as a doorman for the various guests. When we’re not busy letting dogs in and out all day long, we’re taking horses in and out.  (And when we’re not being doormen, we’re providing concierge, chauffeur, food…

Alayne took these photos this evening while I was giving blind Darby, a recent arrival from Washington state, her medications.  Darby is on an antibiotic for a lingering infection from wounds she received before she came here.  She was beat up and cut up, and you can see some of the scars and scabs on…