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Month: February 2010
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Good news! Ella had her surgery today at the Shreveport vet hospital and came through the operation in good shape. The vet who performed the amputation, Dr. Keith Ratcliff, called me just before he took Ella into surgery for a pre-op update, and then one of his vet techs called me after the operation to…
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This is Ella, the other disabled dog in Shreveport who was scheduled to fly out to us on Friday. We've been working with Rebecca Y. from Animal Welfare, Inc., a rescue group in Shreveport that tries to save animals at risk in the local municipal shelter. (Rebecca had been the one who sent us Timmy…
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Here's the little guy we flew in yesterday evening from Louisiana. Because of his size and his crippled leg, the rescue group in Shreveport who pulled him from the local shelter had named him Tiny Tim, or Timmy. His flight arrived right on schedule, just about 7 p.m. We had flown him on Delta from…
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I'm heading into Missoula today to pick up a disabled dog we're flying in this evening from a shelter in Shreveport, Louisiana, so I won't have a new post until sometime Wednesday. The dog is a small Shepherd mix, his name is Timmy and he has a crippled front leg. We have actually just committed…
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I should have pointed this out in yesterday's post but somehow I got sidetracked with all that OCD symmetry discussion: the fact that blind Callie is up in the chair is a major milestone in her recovery from her brain tumor. Last week, in fact, was the first time we saw her climb up into…
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I have this issue about symmetry. I like things to be arranged symmetrically. Neatly. In matching order. Over the years I have driven volunteers, employees and contractors crazy with my need for symmetry. When we built the first cat house on the ranch in 1999 we were still living in Seattle and weren't here when…
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I got this photo this morning of blind Moose and blind Penny drinking from the water bucket on the Widget's House porch. I had let the dogs out just a few moments before. (On Penny, you can see the shaved area where the growth was removed. She's doing fine.) Moose is a real wuss when…
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I spent today in Missoula on the weekly run, driving in with a truck full of dogs — the blind Poodle sisters Molly and Priscilla to the groomers (finally!), and blind Penny and Dexter the Dachshund to our internal medicine specialist, Dr. Dave Bostwick. While the dogs were all being attended to, I did grocery…
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Tia and Karl M. in Washington state, who adopted beautiful little Bunny from us in 2008, sent us these new photos of the cat they now also call Bun Bun. Tia wrote, "I've said this before, she has to be one of the most photogenic animals I have ever had, and again, this cat knows…
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Now that the sun is starting to come up earlier in the mornings, the barn cats are often waiting on the hay bales on the south side of Lena's Barn to catch the first rays as the sun crests the ridge to the east of us. But this winter, what's been happening with annoying frequency…
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