Month: August 2008

  • It seems odd to have to post this kind of update on blind-and-deaf Spinner after her happy "dining al fresco" post a few days ago, but we had a set back with her yesterday that was quite frightening.  Spinner started having seizures a few months ago … just a few of them, several weeks apart. …

  • We’ve been really lucky so far this summer … no fires near us, no severe thunderstorms with lightning, and not the same ferocious heat — day after day above 100 degrees F (38 degrees C) — like we had last year.  But today the National Weather Service office in Missoula issued a Red Flag Warning…

  • Baron, our blind-and-deaf boy who was recently adopted by Wendy M. in Missoula, has won KPAX-TV’s "Greatest Montana Dog" contest … by a landslide!  He totaled 2,102 votes, nearly twice as many as the runner-up who had 1,076 votes. Wendy sent out an email today to friends and family on Baron’s win and included the…

  • I got this shot yesterday of blind-and-deaf Spinner enjoying the early morning sun.  She is still sitting where we fed her dinner the night before.  That’s one of her favorite places, in the thick grass under the aspen, though I doubt she actually stayed in the same spot all night.  I suspect she got up…

  • Okay, let’s get the hat thing out of the way at the start.  Yes, that’s me wearing my ‘blazing-sun-hat’ … our regular baseball-style caps just don’t keep my ears and neck from getting seared in the summer sun, so after several years of thinking about doing something about it, I finally got a "real" hat. …

  • One of the local TV stations in Missoula, the CBS affiliate KPAX-TV, is holding a contest to choose the "Greatest Montana Dog."  Wendy M., who adopted blind Stoney and blind-and-deaf Baron from us back in June, entered Baron in the contest, along with this photo from Baron’s recent "five steps to a great campfire meal"…

  • Back in April, I wrote a post ("Lend Me Your Ear") about how deaf Stuart the Beagle loves to groom other dogs’ ears.  He offers this service free-of-charge to anyone who will stand still for him.  In fact, it’s often how he greets dogs, by rushing up to start cleaning their ears.  For some, it’s…