I sat down at the breakfast table this morning and looked over to see this sight next to me — that's blind and deaf Spinner … or Spin, as we usually call her — sound asleep on the cot.  There was something striking about the angles and colors that caught my eye, so I headed…

One of the ways you can provide "mental stimulation" for a blind dog is with a scent trail.  You take small dog treats that have a fairly distinct smell and lay them out on the ground, every 10 to 20 feet or so, and create a winding trail of the treats for 30 yards or…

One of the many reasons we love our primary care vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, is because she has an intense interest in ophthalmology — and when more than half of our animals are blind, that's really important!  Not only does Brenda have the ophthalmic diagnostic tools that the average vet doesn't have (like a slit-lamp…

Margaret thought that the only off-note in Barack Obama's otherwise superb election night speech was the part where he told his daughters, "you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House." If this campaign was about change, Margaret reasoned, why a puppy in the White House?  So many presidents have…

You'd better pour yourself a cup of coffee for this one.  The story of how these blind boys made it to the ranch is one of the strangest, and most nerve-wracking, we've ever been involved in.  These two dogs — Buddy and Jake — were saved three times along the way.  So-called 'rescue groups' betrayed…

I got this shot yesterday when I was coming out of Widget's House.  That's blind Dusty, waiting to go inside for dinner.  He's a wonderful boy, very gentle and sweet.  But despite his size — he's probably about 90 pounds — he's very skittish about being around a group of dogs.  So he prefers to…

I was over at Widget's House this afternoon with Cindy when I took these photos of Travis.  As I showed Cindy the images on the camera's playback screen, she laughed and said, "You know, he really looks like a cartoon character!" Indeed he does.  The pinned-back ears somehow only accentuate his pointy-headedness, which is caused…

Alayne got these wonderful shots of Bailey with our old friend, Mr. Caterpillar, in the living room this afternoon.  Mr. Caterpillar has survived a number of attempts on his life, but thanks to skilled on-site emergency medical care, he is still — thank heavens — very much with with us.  I think I've reported on…

Cindy took these photos the other morning over at Widget's House.  About 8 a.m. she had let all the dogs out (now we know who let the dogs out, eh?) and minutes later most of them were right back on the porch, settled in on the various cots to catch the morning sun.  That's blind…