Okay, so she’s not as exotic as a blind Shepherd from Afghanistan, but at least she isn’t another blind Beagle from Georgia!  No, she’s a blind Beagle from Washington state. This is Carmel from Gig Harbor, and with her are Shirley L. and James C. from Portland, Oregon, wonderful supporters of the ranch who kindly…

Barbara Edwards, the quiltmaker who each year makes a beautiful quilt to raffle off for the sanctuary, called to say that our blog readers had already bought all the raffle tickets she had planned to sell for this year’s quilt!  She was just amazed at the response she’s received in the mail so far.  Because…

Yes, you read that right.  Afghanistan.  We were contacted back in March by the Afghan Stray Animal League, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that works to help homeless animals in Kabul, Afghanistan, by supporting a small shelter there.  The shelter had taken in a blind Shepherd puppy, an animal that stood no chance of adoption.  They…

You may recall that when our mare Lilah poked her right eye out last week, we had noticed some changes in her left eye but weren’t sure what they were.  Our equine vet Dr. Erin Taylor — who was attending an equine ophthalmology course last week in Florida when Lilah injured herself — came out…

I thought you’d like to know that our beloved old mule, Roy, is doing much better after losing his buddy, blind Scout.  We have continued to let him wander the ranch at will, which suits him just fine.  People who have come to the ranch in the past week are often startled to see this…

Barbara Edwards, a quiltmaker from Seeley Lake, Montana, has graciously offered to make another gorgeous quilt for us and raffle it off, with 100% of the proceeds going to the animals at the ranch.  This will be the third quilt raffle Barbara has done for the sanctuary, and this year’s quilt is just stunning.  Barbara…

We never know how the day is going to go when we get up every morning, because we never know what we’re going to find.  That’s what happens when you’re caring for more than 80 animals.  Today’s ‘morning surprise’ was finding that our mare Lilah had punctured her right eye overnight.  This wasn’t your typical…

I was taking photos for our summer print newsletter yesterday, and one of the animals who will be featured in this next issue is three-legged Honey Girl. She came to us last December from the Spokane County animal control shelter.  She is a complete ham and a show-off, and she will do anything to get…

Judging from the number of emails and blog comments we’ve had, it appears I have been rather delinquent in posting an update on the blind Poodle sisters!  They are doing great, and have joined the other disabled dogs over at Widget’s House, our main dog building.  I took the photo above of Alayne with Priscilla…

Thank you to everyone who has posted or emailed us such wonderful sentiments about Roy and Scout.  We really appreciate it!  I wanted to let you know that Roy is doing better.  Last night, about 8 p.m., Alayne and I looked out the living room window and were startled to see Roy had made his…