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Month: December 2009
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I wasn't going to start your week, or mine, with a blog post about another loss, so I didn't want to share the news about Luna yesterday. But on Friday, we had to say goodbye to our blind mare Luna. She had reached the age where her teeth had literally worn out. We had first…
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Almost exactly a month ago, I wrote a post about how well blind Helen was doing with her chemotherapy. A week ago, I emailed Helen's primary care vet, Dr. Jennifer Rockwell, to tell her that Helen was tolerating her new chemo drug, Lomustine, wonderfully and had shown none of the long list of potential side-effects…
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At the risk of inciting or inflaming passions about a sensitive topic — no emails, please! – I decided to let New Scientist, one of my favorite publications, do a "guest post" for me today. I saw this fascinating story about dogs vs. cats in my daily news digest from New Scientist yesterday and thought…
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Yesterday evening I was feeding two of our blind horses in their shed next to Beauty's Barn when the intercom on my phone rang. It was Alayne (um, no one else here who could be calling!), reporting that there was no water at Lena's Barn. All the automatic waterers in the corrals were out of…
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Only the two blind Huskies, Dusty and Mitch, weren't complaining about the 32° below zero temperature this morning. But even they, like the rest of us — animals and humans alike — were anxiously waiting for the sun to rise over the ridge to the east and begin warming things up a little. Here's what…
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Richard and Julie S. from Olympia, Washington, just sent us this photo of their recently adopted Charlie — our once-blind Beagle who can now see — and his new pal Hugo (on the right), napping by the Christmas tree. In their email, Richard wrote, "Thank you for such a wonderful gift, Charlie has been the…
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…there's only one place to be this weekend — in front of the wood stove. Here are blind-and-deaf Spinner and blind Callie enjoying the fire on a bitterly cold night: Note that for today, the National Weather Service office in Missoula said we should expect a high of 2°(-16°C) with east winds between 25 and…
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Blind-and-deaf Spinner has decided she really likes the IKEA lounge chairs in the living room, and that's become her favorite spot for napping. Daisy, on the other hand, long ago claimed those chairs as her own, and she always bares her teeth and growls at any dog that happens to even approach the chair she's…
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After another light snow and plunging temperatures forecast for last night, it was time to bring the horses in from pasture for the winter. Alayne took these photos of me leading blind Lena (on the left) and blind Nikki back to the barns yesterday afternoon. The horses love being out on pasture — and we…
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For the third year in a row, the Love of Dog Bakery in Maryland has selected the ranch to be their Charity of the Month for December. That means they will kindly donate 5% of their sales during the month to the animals here. So if you're looking for some very tasty and nutritious treats…
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