I headed to the Missoula airport last night to meet our newest arrival, a deaf Beagle named Stuart.  He came to us from Fort Myers, Florida, where his family had decided they could no longer care for him.  Stuart also has some neurological issues, and has a pronounced head tilt when walking. He’s a very…

The wonderful folks from Doggon’ Wheels in Bozeman kindly came out to the ranch today to measure three of our dogs for wheelchairs.  All three — brothers Smokey and Charlie, and Noodle the Collie mix — have cerebellar hypoplasia, which affects their balance and fine motor skills.  We have several animals with this condition, and…

It’s tough to keep a girl on a diet when she seeks out every opportunity to steal, harass and intimidate other dogs into giving up their meals to her.  Widget is incorrigible when it comes to food.  I caught her doing one of her sneaky little maneuvers the other evening — "I just happened to…

I went out to feed the horses on New Year’s Eve morning and found our Belgian draft horse, Rooster, lying flat out on his side in the snowy corral.  It was snowing, the wind was howling, and judging from the ice balls in his mane and the snow all over him, he’d been like this…