This is blind Buddy, who came to us from a shelter in Spokane as a lanky puppy.  A wonderful lady in Missoula, Susan S., adopted Buddy last year, and just emailed us an update with new photos: Just wanted to say hi and send you some pictures I took of Buddy today when I gave…

Here are two recent arrivals we’re delighted to introduce … on the left is Alicia M., our new employee, and on the right is Brody, an old blind Lab who came to us late last week from a rescue group in Pennsylvania.  I figured this would be a two-for-one bonus blog post! Alicia joined us…

This afternoon we took our 9-month old blind foal Brynn out to meet our 5-week old blind foal Cash for the first time.  We had planned to do this earlier, but we’re in the "big melt" right now and our corrals are too icy and muddy for these little guys.  (This is our two-week "ick"…

This was the scene from inside Widget’s House this evening, just before we let the dogs in for dinner.  Of course, the anticipation is more than they can stand, so there’s a lot of energy at that front door.  Starting in the lower left, that’s blind Bud staring in the window; old blind Peabody the…

Alayne got this shot of blind Kenai today doing absolutely nothing but lying on a cot with this stuffed toy in her mouth.  Alayne says Kenai kept that toy in her mouth for nearly 30 minutes, as if it were a canine version of a baby’s pacifier.  Kenai is an older girl — we don’t…

Barbara Edwards, a quiltmaker from Seeley Lake, Montana (about 30 miles northwest of us), has created another beautiful quilt to raffle off as a benefit to the ranch.  Barbara did this last year and raised $1,000 for the animals … and she wants to do it again! The name of this year’s quilt is "Happy…

Have you noticed that the only thing "small" about small dogs is their body size?  Everything else … from their attitudes to the volume of their barks to their own self-image … comes in extra-large. In Bailey’s case, this also translates into an inner need to subdue the biggest toys in the house.  From the…

I headed back to Washington State University’s veterinary teaching hospital today to see our blind foal Brynn and bring her back home to the ranch tomorrow.  She has been in the hospital for an entire month now!  I took these photos this evening of Brynn and 4th-year vet student Prudence Jurica, one of the wonderful…

I was walking out of my office yesterday and heard this odd sound coming from behind the dining table.  I walked over to investigate and found blind Willie, a recent arrival, sound asleep on the cot with blind Kenai, our big black Lab.  Willie’s head was perched on Kenai’s back, and every time Kenai breathed…

This is 4-week old Cash, a blind Quarter Horse foal who came to us from Alabama.  Our horse hauler, Bob Hubbard Horse Transportation, had picked him up on Saturday morning and delivered him to us late last night.  I drove in to Missoula with the trailer to meet the hauler, and I got Cash back…