Blind Sophie, our newly diagnosed diabetic, was one of the dogs I took to Burlington last week along with Darla. In the photo above is our internal medicine specialist, Dr. Marielle Goossens, examining Sophie. Under Marielle's direction, we started Sophie on insulin injections and have been carefully increasing her dose, bit by bit, to try…

Back in November, I had a long post about a procedure our internal medicine specialist was doing to open the mouth on Travis, our dog with a fused jaw from masticatory myositis. As I explained then, the purpose was to be able to intubate him for anesthesia for a lengthy dental he desperately needed. We…

Yesterday was a one-two punch of bad news for Darla. I took a full van load of dogs to Peak Veterinary Referral Center in Burlington, among them our beautiful Lab/Beagle girl. I had earlier scheduled an appointment with our ophthalmologist, Dr. Sarah Hoy, because I was concerned about changes I was seeing in Darla's eyes.…

One of the first things we noticed about Tanner when he arrived was how he sloped down in his hindquarters while standing or walking. It looked like that half-leg he was carrying around was literally weighing him down. If you go back and look at the various photos in his arrival blog post, you'll see…

During the recent cold snap we fired up the wood stove in the living room to help out the heating system, and the spot in front of the stove became an instant favorite. The dogs took turns lying or sitting in front of it. Alayne took this photo of Wilbur enjoying the wood stove warmth.…

I took that photo of Alayne with Tanner this afternoon, about an hour after I returned from Burlington with him. Our surgeon, Dr. Kurt Schulz, removed the remaining stump of Tanner's right leg yesterday. We think, but don't know for sure, that he lost the lower half of the leg to a trap. Kurt also…