Our vet Dr. Brenda Culver gave us the official word today — it was cone independence day for blind Briggs.  For almost two entire months, this little Beagle has had to wear a cone on his head following his eye surgery.  At first, he hated the dang thing and couldn’t get used to it.  He…

The May issue of John Lyons’ Perfect Horse magazine carries a fabulous six-page article on two blind horses, a dressage horse named Valiant and our own filly Nikki.  The article focuses on how both horses were trained to do what few considered possible.  In Valiant’s case, his owner Jeanette Sassoon trained him for competition-level dressage…

After three splendid days of warm, sunny weather in the 50s, winter makes a return visit tonight.  Here’s the Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory that the National Weather Service office in Missoula posted for us this afternoon: — BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION-236 PM MDT TUE APR 29 2008 A SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT…

This is blind Laddie, our handsome, sweet Arabian, drinking out of his automatic waterer this afternoon.  We received a grant last summer to put in these automatic waterers throughout our extensive corral system, and it has saved us an incredible amount of labor and significantly reduced our electricity consumption. We used to provide an individual…

I drove out to Great Falls on Friday to pick up a blind Beagle puppy we flew in from Atlanta.  This little guy, who we named Austin, came to us from the same lady, Morgan S., who sent us blind Widget, blind Willie and blind Briggs.  Morgan was living in New York when she rescued…

Yes, that’s Dr. Dave Bostwick, our small animal internal medicine specialist in Missoula, working on something that is decidedly not a small animal — our blind mare Lena.  Our equine vet, Dr. Erin Taylor, had asked Dave if he would do echocardiograms on two horses today, Lena and a 2-year old colt with a heart…

Stuart the deaf Beagle is really into grooming … not himself, but other dogs.  His specialty is ears, and he offers a free ear wash to any dog willing to sit still for him.  If given a chance, he loves to do a complete head bath, too.  I was working in my office the other…

Our blind cat Bobby has been undergoing treatment for a recurring urinary tract infection, and the week before last he had a relapse — straining and peeing bright red blood again.  He had only been home from the hospital a short while.  After talking with Dr. Jennifer Rockwell, our vet who had been treating Bobby,…

One of our wonderful supporters asked me the other day on the phone how blind Brynn was doing, and that made me realize it’s been a long time since I’ve posted an update on her.  Well, she’s just about to turn two years old in early June, and that will be quite a milestone.  Brynn…

Little Creighton, the blind chocolate Lab puppy who came to us three weeks ago with bulging, painful eyes, is completely healed up from his eye surgery.  Our vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, was unable to save his eyeballs by using the intrasclera implants (like we did with Briggs the blind Beagle).  This is because there was…