I know this looks like an empty chair.  Sure it does.  There's even a nice fleece blanket you can pull around yourself after you sit down.  Except in this house — as in most homes outfitted with Dachshunds as accessory items — you stand a very good chance of having a very small dog burrowed…

I walked into the cat house yesterday evening and saw this interesting configuration on the floor — three cats tightly packed together like, well, sardines in a can.  And they actually stayed this way long enough for me to go to my office and retrieve the camera!  That's Tibby facing backwards, sandwiched between her brother…

Blind-and-deaf Spinner has been with us for several years, and has always lived in our own house.  She's one of the few dogs who also has 'overnight privileges,' i.e., getting to sleep in the house at night.  (Too many dogs = not enough sleep.)  Even Widget sleeps in one of the cottages at night because,…

I saw this scene in the living room yesterday … little Bailey using blind Austin for a chin rest.  As I've posted before, Bailey often dozes with his face propped up on a soft squeaky toy … usually with part of the toy inside his mouth.  But this was the first time I'd seen him…

Wendy M., who adopted blind Stoney and blind-and-deaf Baron from us this past summer, just sent us some photos of her two special 'holiday dogs.'  Wendy took these photos at her parents' house, where they were decorating the Christmas tree this weekend. Wendy wrote, "Baron spent most of his time laying by Ms. Mouse and…

I'm delighted to report that in the Animal Rescue Site's Shelter Challenge contest, we came in first in Montana and won the $1,000 state prize!  Thank you to everyone who voted … and voted … and voted! 

I got this shot yesterday afternoon in our living room after adding some more wood to the fire.  I looked over and noticed this collection of Beagles, all snoozing and enjoying the warmth from the woodstove, which is just off to the right.  That's blind Widget in the chair, blind Briggs on the left and…

The ISP that hosts our main Rolling Dog Ranch Web site had a power outage this morning that knocked many of their servers offline … and now, many hours later, our site is still down.  We have email access but not Web site access.  (This blog is hosted separately by TypePad.)  For folks who are…

It may not look that cold, but when I took this photo at 8:30 this morning of Widget's House it was 15 degrees below zero (-26 C) and the wind was blowing 12 miles per hour (19 kph).  When you're sub-zero, that kind of wind is just a killer.  I had just let the dogs…

As I walked over early this morning to let the dogs out of Widget's House, I looked up and saw the snowy top of Ovando Mountain bathed in bright pink from the sun that was just beginning to crest the ridge to the east of us.  By the time I got back to our house…