The director of Missoula Animal Control emailed me last week to ask if we could take an elderly, blind dog they had at the shelter.  Someone had seen a car pull up to the curb, the door open, and a tiny dog deposited on the sidewalk.  Then the car drove off.  Fortunately, the person who…

Wendy M., who adopted blind-and-deaf Baron and blind Stoney from us a year ago, just sent some new photos of her dynamic duo.  She took them on a family outing last weekend for a group camping adventure.  There was a dog costume show on Saturday morning with a new category called "Best Blind Dog."  Since…

I've posted before about the frequent rainbows we get out here, but this is something else we see quite a bit:  double rainbows.  I got this shot the other evening when I was over at Widget's House putting the dogs up.  Beautiful, isn't it? We've had a few days of cool, wet weather — we…

I saw blind Molly standing on the gravel pad outside Widget's House the other evening and noticed how the entire scene seemed to be a study in gray.  Except, of course, for that pesky tuft of green grass that's managed to come up through the gravel.  Well, and the part of Molly that's white.  —…

I got this shot yesterday of blind Madison in the RTV when I took her with me to do some pasture chores.  She loves going for a ride in this vehicle!  I took her with me one day a few weeks ago, and that got her hooked.  Now, whenever she hears me driving by Widget's…

After years of washing 40 dog food bowls by hand every day — about 20 at our house and 20 at Widget's House — we finally got smart and realized it would be far more efficient in terms of labor and energy usage to install dishwashers in both buildings.  We hadn't put one in our…

If the Merriam-Webster Dictionary's definition of the expression hangdog is "sad, dejected," we've got the poster child for it.  This is blind Moose, who can give us the saddest, most dejected look imaginable with that big, sweet face of his.  And yet, he is one of the happiest dogs we've ever known! Even with the…

I saw blind Callie grooming Dexter in the kitchen — yes, in the exact same spot that Daisy and Dexter were in for yesterday's post — and got this photo.  I don't know if Callie started grooming him and that prompted Dexter to begin grooming himself, or vice versa.  A number of people have been…

We recently put in new kitchen cabinets, and as anyone who has done this knows, there is a wide array of finishes to choose from — oak, maple, hickory, birch, cherry, etc.  In our case, however, as you can see from this photo, we used a different color palette to choose from, called Dachshund Coordinates. …

Alayne saw blind Austin digging a hole in the gravel so he could bury a soft chew toy shaped like a bone.  She went to get the camera, but as soon as he heard Alayne walk up near him, he pulled the toy bone out of the hole and took off.  She followed him around…