I posted back in late October about how blind-and-deaf Ellie May, the elderly Cocker Spaniel who had recently arrived, had taken it upon herself to become my minion.  Well, months later, Ellie May has still not left my side … or my desk, where she spends most of her days.  She is a devoted little…

Yes, that’s blind Widget again, looking completely decadent on the morning after.  As usual, we don’t know what went on in her cottage overnight, but she definitely looked a little … shall we say … hung-over.  This clearly isn’t presenting Widget at her finest moment.  I said to her as I was taking the photo,…

As a Christmas gift for the dogs, a wonderful friend and supporter of the sanctuary sent a box of 40 Lambiedoodles — a soft chew toy sheep with a squeaker inside.  That’s one Lambiedoodle for every dog!  We handed them out on Christmas Day, and here are some of the photos we took Christmas night. …

A couple of hours after Dr. Joseph Harari left this afternoon (see previous post), I had just finished putting the horses up in their stalls at Beauty’s Barn when I walked over to see if I could help our new employee, Jodie B., wrap up at Lena’s Barn.  (Jodie and Gloria have both joined us…

Dr. Joseph Harari, our board-certified veterinary surgeon at Veterinary Surgical Specialists in Spokane, came out to the ranch today for a visit with a friend of his.  I took the photo this afternoon of Joe and Alayne with our recent arrival, Trooper.  Joe had examined Trooper last week, the morning after he arrived from a…

If it seems like there have been a lot of veterinary blog posts recently … well, it feels like that’s all I’ve been doing these past two weeks, taking animals to one of our vet clinics.  Today I took another full trailer-load to see Dr. Erin Taylor at Blue Mountain Veterinary Hospital in Missoula.  First…

I drove over to our vet clinic in Helena, Montana Veterinary Specialists, this afternoon to pick up three animals we’d never seen before but had agreed to take last week.  In this photo I took at the clinic, vet tech Heather A. on the left is holding a blind cat that the Lewis & Clark…

It’s not just Baron or Blanca who likes to sleep curled up with old uncle Dillon — just about everybody, sooner or later, snoozes alongside him.  Here’s blind Callie, finding a new way to enjoy him … not as a pillow, but more like a bed frame, while his stomach must feel like a built-in…

We just learned that the TV program Animal Rescue this weekend ran a special edition featuring the winners of the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Animal Action Awards.  The program is now online at this link.  The photo above is a screenshot I took this evening of the Web page with the clip featuring the…

Finally, here are photos of the two three-legged cats we picked up at Spokane County’s animal shelter last week.  Alayne took these photos of me with them this afternoon outside our isolation cottage.  For a rash, fleeting moment, I pondered the idea of trying to hold both of them together for the same photo, one…