There’s something about lush green grass our dogs just love.  Maybe it’s the fact that here in Montana, it lasts for only about 6 weeks before browning out in July, so they have to make the most of it.  Bailey is a great example … he can’t get enough of playing in the grass. Multiple…

I picked up Brynn this morning at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Pullman and got back to the ranch late this afternoon with her.  Alayne took these photos of Brynn unloading from the trailer and then showing off her latest hair-do.  (She was clipped at the hospital for her ultrasound imaging.) The…

Here’s Travis, who came back from the vet hospital last week after pulling out his stomach tube.  Our vets had decided the best course was to leave the tube out and let the hole in his side seal up.  He loves not having that hardware in, and we can just tell he feels less constrained. …

On Friday morning I went out to the cat house to feed the gang and found Wobbles on the floor, eyes half-shut, mouth wide open and breathing oddly … shallow breaths, very labored.  He was clearly in respiratory distress.  He couldn’t move, and just lay there looking at me with obvious discomfort.  I said to…

Alayne took these photos of three-legged Cody sleeping on the cot right outside our back door.  Cody is quite the exhibitionist when he sleeps.  You could really say, well, he gives it his all.  And leaves nothing to the imagination. First there was this position above, with the front leg tossed casually over the step. …

We learned from ultrasound and lab tests this week that our blind cat Turtle’s cancer had returned … not only into her intestines again, but it had now spread to her bones.  The growth we noticed around her left eye turned out to be not an infection but an extremely aggressive bone cancer.  It was…

We had so much going on last weekend that I didn’t get a chance to post anything about our newest arrival, a little Schipperke named Patch.  Alayne picked him up at the Missoula airport late Friday evening. Patch came to us from the Yolo County SPCA in California.  These wonderful folks have sent several disabled…

I drove Brynn over to Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine today for her second stay at the teaching hospital.  I took this photo of Brynn with Dr. Marta Gonzalez Arguedas, on the right, and 4th year vet student Darbie C. on the left, just about 20 minutes after we got Brynn in her…

Alayne and I were letting the dogs out at Widget’s House this morning, and as Travis — our boy with a fused jaw — headed to the door, I looked over and realized his stomach tube was hanging out.  Oh, no!  Now, this isn’t essential to his feeding anymore, since we learned early on he…

Yesterday we noticed our blind horse Domino kicking at his belly and swishing his tail constantly, as if he were being pestered by flies.  But it’s not fly season (yet), and no other horses were doing this.  He also wasn’t acting like he had colic, which is one major reason a horse will kick at…