This is Brynn, our little two-year old blind Arabian filly with the multiple medical problems.  Among her issues is a neck so short she can’t reach the ground with her mouth to graze without having to kneel down on her front legs … which is hard on horse joints!  So we like to take her…

Last weekend Wendy M. from Missoula came out to visit with a few of our dogs she was thinking about adopting.  After taking them for walks and hanging out for a while with them, Wendy fell for not one but two of our disabled dogs — blind-and-deaf Baron and blind Stoney!  Wendy said she wanted…

Now that the nights have warmed up, our blind-and-deaf Great Dane Blanca prefers to sleep outside much of the time.  There are cots on the Widget’s House porch with West Paw beds on top, and as soon as she’s had dinner, she’s ready to head back outside and stay there.  So when I went over…

You might remember that we recently had two of the sanctuary’s wonderful supporters, Shirley L. and James C. visiting from Portland, Oregon, and they brought blind Carmel out to us.  Well, Shirley emailed us some photos that James took while they were here, and I thought you’d enjoy seeing them too.  This photo at the…

One of our fabulous volunteers, Laura B. from Helena, brought out a new cat tree last Saturday for the gang in the cat house, and it immediately became a big hit.  On Sunday morning we found little Tibby, the cat with the deformed back legs, upside down in the swing playing with cat toys.  I…

It seems we never run out of opportunities around here to get acquainted with new and interesting diseases.  This year we’ve learned about HGE, or hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, which struck blind Widget and blind Penny.  Just last week we learned about corneal dystrophies because of blind Carmel.  And last night we encountered FCE, or … ready?…

You may recall that last summer our young Quarter Horse named Copper Kid, a wobbler with a neurological condition called cervical vertebral instability, went down in the pasture late one Friday afternoon.  We managed to get him up on his feet and into the horse trailer, and rushed him to Blue Mountain Veterinary Hospital in…

As long-time blog readers know, our blind filly Brynn was born with multiple health problems, but her only real quality of life issue is urine leaking from screwed-up internal plumbing.  Her ureter — the tube that takes urine from the kidney to the bladder — instead is hooked up to her vagina, so the urine…

Yesterday I had to take several animals in to our vet clinic in Helena, and it was a full truck.  Blind Lady needed a repeat of her Cushing’s test to see if her new medication is working; blind Carmel was in for a follow-up eye exam; and blind Evelyn needed a skin biopsy for a…

We were astonished when Barbara and Scott Edwards came out to the ranch today for the 3rd annual quilt raffle drawing and handed over a check for a whopping $3,065!  That was three times the planned ticket sales.  We knew the quilt had drawn a lot of interest but we didn’t quite realize how many…