I took two of our blind girls, Evelyn and Penny, into Missoula with me today to see our internal medicine specialist there, Dr. Dave Bostwick at Missoula Veterinary Specialty Clinic.  Evelyn has been losing weight, and no amount of adjusting her diet has seemed to make much difference.  She has lost 11 pounds, though she…

Another installment in our series of posts on other folks' disabled animals … this one from Europe! One of the sanctuary's wonderful friends and supporters, Carla P. in Italy, had rescued a tiny disabled kitten in September 2007.  Carla named him Leo, after another beloved family pet, their dog Lea, who had just died the…

Speaking of warmth seekers, this was the scene in the cat house the other night when I went to check on everyone for bedtime.  Back in late December I posted a photo of Tibby, Fibby and wobbly Mink, squished like sardines in front of that heater.  This time Mink has a new crew of friends…

We're in another cold spell — last night was 26 below zero (-32 C), tonight we're forecast to be 28 below — which means keeping the wood stove going during the day.  I took the photo above of Daisy the miniature Dachshund trying to get as close as she possibly could to that stove.  I…

Well, Beaver the Belgian turned out to be too big for the "XX Large" belly band designed for a Clydesdale.  I took this photo on Friday, after I applied the Aldara to his sarcoid for the first time.  We needed another, um … 8 to 10 inches to comfortably close the top of the band…

Kate W., who adopted blind Luke from us in 2007, emailed me last week to say Luke "was jealous of all the Baron action on the blog lately.  So he thought he'd send you some pictures of him sleeping … just in case you wanted to make him famous." As you can see, our former…

This is the third in our series about other folks' disabled animals — and that's Koda, a Golden Retriever who has cerebellar hypoplasia.  Koda belongs to Garry P. in northern California.  Garry recently wrote us to say: "I work with a Golden Retriever Rescue Group in northern California and I just recently adopted a 2-year…

Now this is what we'd call a disability! Just kidding. That's Blanca, our blind-and-deaf Great Dane from Mexico, doing her usual weird sitting thing in the front yard of Widget's House.  For some reason this is characteristic of how she often likes to sit.  We're not sure why, but it seems to work for her.

I took our draft horse Beaver in to Missoula to see Dr. Erin Taylor this morning to begin a new treatment for his sarcoid tumor.  That's Beaver above, right after we anesthetized him at the clinic.  You can see the tumor in the center of his belly. This will be the third form of therapy…

Cindy got this shot of our Belgian draft horse Beaver on Friday after giving him an oral anti-inflammatory paste called bute.  Day after day last week, he would stand there after getting his medication and do this … for several minutes.  For horses, that's a fairly common expression you see when they smell or taste…