One of the interesting things about this line of work is the sheer variety of what we do — and we just never know what opportunities we’ll get to enjoy on any given day.  This morning I was on a conference call working on donor database migration issues and this afternoon, I was … well,…

While Cindy was taking photos of Trooper and the Poodle sisters roughhousing on the Widget’s House porch last week, she also managed to get this interesting shot of blind-and-deaf Blanca standing completely on top of blind Priscilla.  You can see that blind Molly is still playing with Trooper, while Priscilla apparently is trying to understand…

Last month, I posted a photo of blind Callie the Dachshund trying to work her way under the door into the cat house.  As I pointed out then, Callie is crazy about the cats.  Yesterday morning, when I was taking the photos of blind Briggs parading around with the tennis ball, Callie was right behind…

I mentioned in yesterday’s sad post about dear Birdie how she loved to grab a toy on the way out the cottage door in the morning and wave it at the Dachshunds to try and get a game started.  Somehow this morning it was as if blind Briggs realized something was amiss and decided to…

This one … this loss was devastating. On Friday morning when we went to let the dogs out of Kelly’s Cottage, we found some diarrhea and chewed grass thrown up on the floor.  We watched the dogs file out to see who it might be, and quickly realized it was Birdie. She had a form…

The Idaho Statesman, Boise’s daily newspaper and the largest in the state of Idaho, carried a front-page feature story today on the terrible problem of blindness in Appaloosas.  It is a very well-done piece. The reporter, Tim Woodward, first called us about a week and a half ago to interview us for the story.  One…

Our employee Cindy was over at Widget’s House the other morning when she saw the usual start-of-the-day antics beginning.  Most mornings when we let the dogs out, Trooper — the hound mix from Louisiana with a twisted front leg — goes dashing out the door, closely followed by his girlfriend, Priscilla the blind Poodle.  Priscilla…

Wendy M. of Missoula, who adopted blind-and-deaf Baron and blind (and mostly deaf!) Stoney from us a few weeks ago, took her two dogs camping last weekend.  She emailed us a really funny set of photos of Baron at the campsite … and after yesterday’s sad blog, I thought you — and we — could…

This was one of those days we had dreaded for a long time. Laddie was our blind Arabian who had lived with a major orthopedic problem for years.  His left front knee was very arthritic and swollen, and he walked with a limp.  Laddie had required regular cortisone injections in his knee and daily anti-inflammatories…

Last Friday we received a wonderful update on blind Buddy, a delightful hound mix adopted from the ranch by Susan S. in Missoula two years ago.  Buddy had come to us originally from a shelter in Spokane, Washington.  He was then just a big, goofy blind puppy who liked to carry a toy hedgehog around…