For the fourth year in a row, Barbara Edwards, a quiltmaker from Seeley Lake, Montana, has generously offered to make another beautiful quilt for us and raffle it off, with 100% of the proceeds going to the animals at the ranch. Barbara and her husband Scott came by yesterday afternoon to show us her latest…

We had a light snowfall overnight (yes, I know it's May 13th but what the heck) and because we've had bare ground for a few weeks now, the snow was just enough to get the dogs feeling frisky this morning.  Alayne got this shot of blind Austin and deaf Stuart playing with each other soon…

Last night we learned the ranch had won $1,000 as the "weekly winner" in the Animal Rescue Site's Shelter Challenge contest, and this morning we had moved up to No. 3 nationwide!  Fabulous!  Thank you for all your daily voting for the animals here — it is clearly adding up and making a difference!  If…

Here's a little guy you haven't seen in a while — blind Austin, a Beagle who arrived from Georgia last year.  Alayne got this photo of Austin on Sunday, while he was out exploring in the yard.  (Look how that grass is starting to grow!)  Austin is like everybody’s kid brother, always tagging along behind…

It took Callie a little while on Friday evening to re-orient herself after coming home … when you're blind, have been away for three weeks in the hospital, and have some new vestibular problems that keep you off-balance, well, it can take a bit to figure out where everything is again.  So she kind of…

I picked up blind Callie at the WSU teaching hospital on Friday morning and brought her back to the ranch.  I took these photos just before we left the hospital.  In the photo above, Callie is being held by Sarah P., the 4th year vet student who was Callie's case manager for the past couple…

I'm in Pullman, Washington, tonight, and will be picking up blind Callie from Washington State University's veterinary teaching hospital tomorrow morning and taking her back to the ranch.  Callie will have her last — and 18th — radiation treatment at 8 a.m. Friday, and she'll be ready to be discharged an hour later.  We can't…

Alayne saw a shape moving inside a round bed in the living room yesterday afternoon, so she stopped and said, "Who's in there?"  Immediately there was the sound of a small animate object scurrying forward and then out popped little Daisy's head.  Then Daisy disappeared back into the bed.  Alayne went to get the camera,…

I took our new arrival, blind Charlie, to our vet clinic in Helena today for an eye exam and general medical check-up.  (I also had the studded snow tires taken off the truck and horse trailer.  Uh oh.)  In the photo above, our vet Dr. Brenda Culver is using the slit lamp to look into…

On Saturday morning Alayne and I turned Lena, Nikki and Cash out to pasture so we could muck out their corral with the tractor.  This was the first time they've been on pasture since last fall.  We don't typically turn them out until Memorial Day weekend at the end of May because the grass hasn't…