Month: February 2008

  • Today is blind Cash’s first birthday — Happy Birthday, Cash!  He’s officially a big, sort-of-grown-up yearling … not a foal any longer.  Cash arrived at the tender age of 4 weeks of age back in March last year from Alabama, a tiny little thing who was as cute as can be.  In the photo above,…

  • I was in the cat house this morning taking photos of blind Herbie for our monthly email newsletter, and as usual, Herbie was meowing … and meowing … for attention.  Taking his photo wasn’t enough attention.  And although he’s already had his 15 minutes of fame, I couldn’t resist posting these new shots.  What he…

  • I was coming back from giving Snowball his morning Lasix injection — he’s in the isolation cottage right now — when Gloria saw me and called out, "I’ve got a blog moment for you!"  She was in the cat house, cleaning and feeding the gang there.  Gloria had opened the Rubbermaid tub to dish out…

  • I drove three of our blind horses to the vet clinic in Missoula today to see Dr. Erin Taylor.  You may recall that a couple of weeks ago, our filly Nikki was suddenly wobbly on her feet.  After a further, more limited relapse last week, we had to to put her back on steroids.  Today…

  • Our volunteer Laura W. from Helena picked up three cats for us at our vet clinic and brought them out to the ranch on Saturday.  From left, that’s Popeye the blind cat from Lebanon, who had surgery to remove an eye after blowing a hole in his cornea.  The eye socket became infected, the sutures…