We discovered several weeks ago that our blind foal, Cash, had a real thing for zippers.  Whenever I would finish feeding him his mare milk replacer in the bucket, he would lift his head up, wipe his dripping white mouth on me (we’re just "human napkins" for this two-month old foal), then keep moving his…

We had a little blind puppy arrive at the end of last week from the animal control shelter in Elko, Nevada.  She was born with no eyes in her head.  A young man found her by the side of the road and, thinking someone had injured her, took her to a vet clinic.  After the…

Alayne and I were doing some random videotaping yesterday afternoon, and I thought you’d enjoy this one-minute clip I shot when we walked into the front yard of Widget’s House.  There’s nothing in particular going on and it ends a bit abruptly, but it will give you a good idea of what some of our…

The daily medical treatments vary week by week here, but I thought I’d show you what we’re doing every day at the moment.  Usually our kitchen counter isn’t this neatly arranged, but for the purposes of the photo I figured I should organize everything.  What you see are most of the medications we dispense every…

My mistake, of course, was to add that last line in yesterday’s post … the one where I pointed out the very last patch of snow at the ranch.  I should have known better.  We woke up this morning to three inches of snow, the wind howling, and visibility less than 1/4 mile.  That meant…

I mentioned in last Thursday’s blog that I take Brynn’s temperature every morning, just before I give her rear end and back legs a warm, soapy sponge bath to deal with the residual urine drips.  Taking her temperature gives us an early indicator of any infection, and ever since coming back from surgery at Washington…

A wonderful couple from Missoula, Andrea C. and Seth N., came out this weekend to the ranch and adopted blind Penny!  Andrea first emailed us a week ago to ask about Penny, and after a flurry of follow-up emails, Andrea and Seth decided to come and visit with Penny on Saturday.  They brought along their…

We noticed that Bobby the blind cat didn’t look good this morning.  He had a lot of icky drool hanging off his mouth, and he kept stretching his head way up, then bringing it down and stretching it out again.  The drool didn’t smell bad (yes, we check these things out closely!), which was kind…

Blind Goldie thinks the ultimate gift just arrived:  three big boxes filled with 104 stuffed toys with squeakers!  Joni B. from Austin, Texas, ordered this wonderful gift from PetEdge, a wholesale pet supplier, and had them shipped directly to the ranch.  We knew better than to let Goldie get anywhere near these boxes, so we…

Today was one of those "drop some off and pick some up" trips to the vet clinic.  I took the new arrivals, wobbly sisters Noodle and Wobbles, and blind Joey to our vets in Helena late this morning.  I took the photo of Alayne holding Joey with the two girls in the truck just before…