I got this shot this evening of Charlie seeing Alayne for the first time.  His tail was wagging and he was jumping up and down, trying to get closer to her face.  He was so excited he could barely contain himself. We had just returned from Spokane, and Charlie was walking around the house "in…

For Alayne and me, this is the ultimate satisfaction:  giving a blind animal his or her sight back.  We've only had the opportunity to do this once before — several years ago with a blind puppy named Cody.  It was thrilling then, and it was just as thrilling today.  Charlie the blind Beagle is now…

Every morning blind Charlie and blind Austin engage in a wonderful play session that includes lots of wrestling and chasing and general tomfoolery.  We've tried repeatedly to get photos of these two Beagles in action, but whenever they hear us approaching with the camera, they stop playing and head towards us.  Well, Alayne finally got…

Blind Penny isn't the first dog we've had who seems to prefer a deep hole in gravel to a Kuranda cot with a bed on top … deaf Tyler (since adopted) took this to a new level … but what struck us is that she only recently developed a real affinity for this sleeping option. …

A few weeks ago blind Madison developed a new and rather odd habit of sticking her head through the fence to drink from the water bucket in the adjoining dog yard.  Now, when she comes out of Widget's House in the morning for the first time, she always goes straight to the water bucket on…

This is blind Callie, showing off what she thinks is her svelte figure to Gabe.  Unfortunately, she doesn't realize Gabe is blind like she is and thus can't appreciate her, um, slender form.  All Gabe knows is that something is rolling around on the floor below him. Isn't it amazing how much thinner a thick…

What was the very first thing we noticed when Gabe arrived home from the hospital Thursday evening?  He started sniffing the ground the minute he came through the gate into the yard.  We had never seen him smelling anything before … because he couldn't.  Alayne and I watched this blind boy walk around the back…

Here’s another heartwarming story … a wonderful new follow-up on deaf Stuart, who Dan and Cheryl W. adopted from us a few months ago.  Dan and Cheryl wrote in an email to us: “Been a while since we last wrote and gave an update on Stuart. From the attached photos you can see that he…