It was time for some geriatric equine medicine today — our old sighted Appaloosa, Crazy Horse, was due to see our equine vet, Dr. Erin Taylor, for his regular joint injections.  He has bad arthritis, but for an ancient boy of 32 years, the joint injections every several months does wonders for him.  We loaded…

Alayne was fixing up the crates in Kelly’s Cottage the other night, putting in fresh bedding and fluffing it up for the "burrowers" (i.e., the Dachshunds) and the "mounders" (the ones who like to pull all their bedding into a mound, arrange it just so, and then lie down on it).  I was bringing dogs…

We had our fabulous team of groomers here on Saturday, bathing and clipping the dogs over at Widget’s House.  One of the dogs I wanted them to work on was Noodle the wobbly Collie mix, who has thick, wool-like hair that needs to be cleaned up often.  But because Noodle can’t really walk much, and…

This is little Daisy in her crate outside my office door.  She came to us with spine problems and a clump-clump-clump gait a couple of years ago.  But she had a flare-up and lost the use of her rear legs late on Tuesday afternoon, while I was on the way back to the ranch after…

I walked into the kitchen and found Bailey using blind Callie as a chin rest.  I’m not sure how long they’d been like this, but Bailey looked very comfortable and Callie didn’t seem to mind at all.  They even stayed put while I went to get the camera. Now, to answer the obvious questions, a)…

Our vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, just called to say that they have confirmed Widget’s diagnosis as the hemorrhagic gastroenteritis (see previous post).  Brenda’s husband, Dr. Britt Culver, ultrasounded Widget’s abdomen this morning and also did an echocardiogram of her heart, and all her organs look good. Britt, an internal medicine specialist, did the echo because…

About mid-morning I noticed blind Widget trying to throw up in my office … she was pretty quiet about it, no real gagging, but clearly needing to get something out.  Then she went to the front door, so I opened it and off she went.  I mentioned to Alayne that I’d seen her trying to…

We’ve now posted our 2007 annual report online.  It’s a 4-page PDF that’s available on our main Web site’s home page.  The annual report shows what we accomplished during the year, including how many new arrivals there were and where they came from.  The last page has the summary financial information showing how we spent…

This is our new arrival, wobbly blind Briggs, fresh from his eye surgery and neutering on Thursday.  Alayne drove over to Helena Saturday morning to pick him up.  I took the photo of Briggs on the living room couch this afternoon.  As I posted the week before, we had postponed his eye surgery after our…

Here’s the elderly lady who arrived yesterday evening — little Miss Duchess, an old blind-and-deaf girl from Carlsbad, California.  Alayne took the photo of me holding Duchess this afternoon.  We had agreed to take her last week, after a vet tech at the vet hospital emailed us about her. The vet tech, Mina S., wrote…