I got this shot of blind Evelyn yesterday on a warm Saturday afternoon, enjoying a shady spot.  In the past year Evelyn has lost most of her hearing, though she can still hear certain sounds — like the click-click-click of the shutter.  She didn't know what it was but she could hear "something" out there,…

While we're on the subject of dogs enjoying the new warmth of spring, here are some photos Alayne got the other day of blind Briggs rolling … and rolling … and rolling … in the yard outside our house.  This is the latest installment in our series on, um, rolling dogs.  And they just love…

We know summer is coming when we see Bailey starting to spend much of the day underneath his favorite shade tree, the aspen next to our house.  The other morning when I took the photo above, it was probably only about 9 a.m. and he was already outside.  His only complaint is that the leaves…

This past Saturday, we were delighted to have Dan and Cheryl W. from Whitefish, Montana, adopt our deaf boy, Stuart the Beagle.  Dan and Cheryl had recently lost their elderly blind and deaf Beagle, Penny, and were looking for another special dog.  It turns out that just about the same time they contacted us initially…

Last Thursday I took blind Callie in to see our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, for her two-week check-up after her radiation therapy.  She continues to circle with a head tilt from the ear infection she developed at the WSU veterinary teaching hospital, though she is definitely improving.  Dave found no signs…

While I was in Missoula running errands today, Alayne was busy with our farrier, Rich Boyle, who had come out to trim the horses' hooves.  One of our blind horses, Rosie, has always had very thin soles on her feet, which can make her ouchy.  The first time we saw her like this, a few…

I apologize for the quality of these photos, but I shot them through the storm door at Widget's House the other evening — and there are a lot of noses that get pressed up against the glass every day!  Our blind Poodle sisters, Priscilla on the left and Molly on the right, were wrestling like…

Our usual routine in the afternoon is that Alayne and I feed the horses and do the other barn chores first, then we come in to feed the dogs.  A couple of weeks ago, as Alayne was standing at our dining table dishing out the food into the dog bowls, she felt this small object…

We had one of those Sundays where an animal's health prompted a flurry of calls to our vet in Helena.  Wobbly, blind Briggs had started showing slight tremors in the morning, so we took his temperature and found he was running a fever of 103°.  Not very high, yet still a fever.  But the tremors…

May is a particularly hectic month for us because we have multiple pasture and grounds maintenance chores to do in the brief interim between the snow melting (and the ground drying out enough to drive tractors over) and the beginning of grazing season on Memorial Day weekend.  We're cleaning out all the corrals, building the…