I took this photo today of Alayne coming back around noon from Widget’s House, our main dog building there in the background.  Wherever Alayne goes, she has a little cluster of dogs that follows her down to the gate, waits for her, and then leads her back, as you see here.  Just before I shot…

Blind Goldie loves soft squeaky toys … but really only the squeaker inside them.  She can smell a soft toy no matter where we try to hide it, but if it turns out not to have a squeaker in it, she’ll the drop the toy in a second and wander off.  No squeaker, no fun.…

Alayne and I had just finished feeding the dogs yesterday evening when I looked over in the living room and saw this scene — that’s blind Callie on the left, sharing the cot with her friend blind Kenai.  You’ll notice the eyes look very different.  Callie is blind from progressive retinal atrophy, so her pupils…

If you missed the Today Show segment this morning — yikes, it finally ran in the last 15 minutes of the 3-hour program! — it is now available online at the Today Show Web site here.  Click on the "Launch" button under the photo of Alayne with blind Penny and that will bring up a…

The NBC Today Show producer who did the story on the sanctuary called late this afternoon to tell me our segment is now likely to air tomorrow morning, Friday, in the third hour of the program, i.e., sometime after 9 a.m.  This is a change from the earlier schedule, which had our segment airing in…

We’re going to be on NBC’s Today Show on Friday morning, January 26th!  Not only are they airing a story they filmed here at the ranch this past Monday, but they’re also flying Alayne out today to New York so she can appear "live" on the program tomorrow morning.  And if that’s not enough, they’re…

I hauled little Brynn — our blind foal with the chronic urinary problem — into Missoula today for a ‘deep cleaning’ at our equine vet clinic.  Because Brynn doesn’t like anyone working around her backside … we need to clean between her thighs, around her vulva, and other sensitive areas … she needs to be…

Spirit’s new Mom, Nicci B. in Tampa, Florida, emailed this photo yesterday of Spirit wearing her new Doggles.  Nicci thought Spirit should have the Doggles for cruising in the convertible, but here Spirit is trying them out while she rolls around in the grass.  Folks, notice that the grass is, um, green in January.  Speaking…

This is amazing.  We have the money for Brynn’s surgery! As of 7 p.m. Sunday evening, we had $2,040 already come in for Brynn’s fund … an amount that in itself was incredible.  I was getting ready to post that figure as the update on the blog and on Brynn’s fund page.  And then the…

Regular readers of the blog will probably recall that our little blind foal Brynn has some screwed up plumbing — one of her kidneys is sending urine to her uterus instead of her bladder.  The result is that she leaks urine constantly, all over her rear end and between her thighs and down her legs. …