Today’s edition of USA Today has a wonderful feature article on the sanctuary in the Life section.  We haven’t seen the actual paper yet — we’re 60 miles from the nearest USA Today box! — but the story is now online here. The online version doesn’t have any photos posted (so far) but the print…

Starting last spring, our horse trainer, Nichole Zupan, trained our blind two-year Nikki for riding.  By the end of summer they were out pasture riding.  When winter arrived, however, the training stopped because we don’t have a riding arena and the snow is too deep to do any training outside.  Recently, though, Nichole was able…

Alayne and I wanted to thank everyone for the very moving comments posted on the blog and emailed to us about dear old Pappy.  It was a lonely weekend, with Pappy’s big bed lying empty in the living room most of the time.  But it is so heartwarming to know so many people cared about…

Our beloved old German Shepherd, Pappy, died this morning.  We had taken Pappy to the vet clinic a couple of weeks ago for treatment of a lingering growth on his leg; it was benign but something he kept licking and making worse.  Before he went to the clinic, he had been going through his ups…