I got this photo the other day of blind Madison enjoying her morning routine — grazing.  Yes, grazing.  I don't know what it is exactly, but she and blind Penny love to eat a little green grass first thing in the morning after I let them out.  To show you how particular they are, these…

When we got up this morning, we found Bailey had thrown up overnight in the dining room where he sleeps in his little alcove.  He looked and acted like he clearly didn't feel well.  His temperature was slightly elevated, at 102.8° (39.3° C).  We called our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, who…

After yesterday's upsetting blog, I figured we could all use something lighthearted today … so here is a photo of blind Widget happily scampering across the yard.  Everyone in the photo is actually in motion — that's blind Evelyn in the back and blind Austin on the right.  On many mornings when Alayne lets the…

Our little survivor made it as far as he could go.  And today his body finally gave out.  It happened so fast I didn't even have a chance to say goodbye. Yesterday Teddy had been his usual happy self.  He was eager for his dinner, and had been barking at Alayne in the kitchen to…

I took Charlie to our vet in Helena, Dr. Brenda Culver, for a thorough follow-up eye exam this afternoon.  Typically our ophthalmologist, Dr. Bill Yakely in Spokane, wants to see his patients one week after the cataract surgery to assess how their eyes are doing.  In our case, given our distance from Spokane and Brenda's…

I took Teddy out the front door this morning so he could go pee and looked over to see this sight — three Dachshunds flying low in close formation.  Amazingly, they were still like this when I came back out with the camera.  That's lead pilot Bailey in the center and his wingmen Oliver on…

This is blind Cedar.  Mostly deaf now, too.  But this photo captures his very spirit — one of pure, total happiness.  What a big love.  No more narrative needed! — Wow — still No. 2! Please vote for us every day in The Animal Rescue Site/PetFinder's Shelter Challenge.  Thanks to your votes, we won $3,000…

It took longer than usual, but we finally had our first "real" frost last night, and woke up to 21° (-6° C) this morning.  In the past couple of weeks we've had some 25° and 28° mornings, but without any white stuff on the ground, so we are officially logging this as the first real…

The 4th year vet student at WSU who is Gabe's case manager, Katherine W., kindly emailed me these photos of Gabe going through radiation treatment on Thursday.  As it turned out, Katherine was Gabe's case manager earlier when he went through the operation a few weeks ago to remove the nasal tumor; she was on…