This is our newest arrival, Ella, who came from Shreveport on Friday evening.  She completes our four-pack from Louisiana for the month of February!  As you can see, she's missing the front leg we had to have amputated before she could travel to us.  Ella is a beautiful, sweet girl but is very scared —…

Alayne got this photo of Widget last weekend snoozing soundly.  To show you just how resourceful some of these blind dogs are, Widget had grabbed the green fleece throw from the other chair with her mouth and dragged it over to the second chair.  Then she twirled it all around and bunched it up until…

This is a day that we have been dreading, and one we hoped would never come.  Long-time blog readers may remember that blind Widget had eye surgery back in 2006 because of painful glaucoma in her left eye, and that our vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, put an intraocular prosthesis inside the eyeball itself.  This kept…

This is Stevie's little sister, Helen, who is also blind and deaf.  Cute, isn't she?  It's funny how these photos make both of them look bigger than they really are — she's the size of a miniature Dachshund, and just a tad bigger than the smallest dog at the ranch, Daisy.  She's in constant motion,…

Here's one of the two little tykes who arrived on Friday evening from New Orleans … blind-and-deaf Stevie. He and his sister Helen came from to us from Phyllis F., who runs a small, private rescue group that saved them from euthanasia in a local shelter about a year ago.  Since then, Phyllis has tried…

Alayne got these great photos of blind Austin roughhousing with his Aunt Libby the other morning.  Libby is one of our original "Seattle six-pack" of dogs who moved out with us to the ranch back in 2000.  She is not disabled, but was the victim of two separate animal cruelty cases. An animal control officer…