Month: April 2008

  • When Jayme J., a vet tech at our clinic in Helena who also comes out to groom our dogs, mentioned a week ago that her Mom was interested in adopting Tyler, my first reaction was, "Awesome!"  Her Mom, Karen M., had been coming out to volunteer her time helping Jayme groom, so we had gotten…

  • She was my girl, my first dog, my special one.  Dolly died in the early hours on Saturday morning.  She was 13 years old.  You can read her story that I posted on the blog last summer here. Over the past couple of weeks Dolly started getting finicky about eating … some meals she would…

  • The Old Ladies Club at the Rolling Dog Ranch just added a new member, and her name is … Lady!  Ed Franceschina, director of Missoula Animal Control, emailed us on Tuesday and asked if we could take an old, blind Cocker Spaniel mix they had picked up as a stray.  They estimated she was about…

  • Since I had to take Snowball into the vet clinic yesterday, I decided to take little Creighton with me so our vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, could look at his eyes.  I had planned to take him to see Brenda on Thursday, but she was kind enough to fit us in between her other appointments.  Having…

  • This time he was ready. Back in mid-January, I had posted about our chronically ill deaf cat Snowball and how we had almost decided to euthanize him because of his worsening condition.  But my hunch then was that there might be something else going on with him, and I asked our vets to run whatever…