I know it looks like Alayne and I are choking the daylights out of this poor dog, but honest, we’re not!  This is Twist, the other half of the Oliver and Twist Dachshund duo who arrived just before last Christmas.  I was in the isolation cottage about 8 a.m. this morning, giving deaf Snowball his…

So after yesterday’s heartbreaking news about Oscar, here’s something that will hopefully bring a smile to all of us!  Alayne got this photo of wobbly Noodle sitting in the tire we use to hold the dogs’ outdoor water bucket.  This was the first time we’ve seen her do this, and she seemed quite happy there. …

Of all our losses in recent years, this one hit us the hardest. I have never known a dog more devoted to a person than Oscar was to Alayne, nor a person more devoted to a dog than she was to Oscar.  And now he’s gone. Alayne’s "best little dog buddy ever," as she called…

After several less than happy blog posts over the past couple of weeks, I thought we should start out the week with something light and cheery … like Mr. Orangutan’s adventures at the ranch.  A wonderful friend of the animals, Sue R. in Colorado, had sent Franz the Orangutan just before Christmas to help cheer…

I had a call last Thursday evening from Dr. Fred Wininger, the neurologist at Washington State University’s veterinary teaching hospital, with some more answers about what happened to our blind Shepherd Pepper.  It was exactly a week after Pepper died, and the information he gave us helped shed some more light on her disease.  I…