Last Thursday I took a truck load of dogs to see our veterinary specialists in Burlington. On board were Wilbur, Clyde the Yorkie, and new arrivals Bentley and Scamp. It was a long day of multiple appointments with different specialists, so I can't cover it all in one blog post. But I'll start with Scamp,…

I took these photos late on Saturday morning, after putting blind Bentley out for mid-day potty break. When he first came here he was kind of timid, and we pretty much carried him from point A to point B. He'd get lost out in the yard, and we'd have to go out and retrieve him.…

I mentioned last summer in a post how little Dexter has been out of sorts since losing his best pal, our blind Goldie, last year. He's been snuggling up with a couple of other older ladies these days, including Widget, as you can see in the photo above. Widget had never been one to share…

I came across this article in the Wall Street Journal last weekend and forgot I hadn't posted it. The link may or may not work because the WSJ is a subscription site, so I'm including the text below. Note I had a post back in 2009 on the same subject, with the same findings, from…

When blind Louie first came to us, we had written in his welcoming blog post that the folks at Altanta Beagle Rescue had taken him to "an ophthalmologist in Atlanta, who determined Louie was blind from a combination of PRA (progressive retinal atrophy) and cataracts. Though completely blind, his eyes are comfortable and need no further…

Yes, that very large dog giving me a smooch is Aaron, our second Maremma livestock guardian dog. And he is, at 8 months of age, still very much a puppy! In early December, when we last weighed him, he clocked in at 104 pounds, and he's grown quite a bit since then. Over on the…

Here's someone you haven't seen in a while … our wobbling, dancing girl Soba. I took these photos on Sunday afternoon. Soba is the one who was born with cerebellar hypoplasia, which means her cerebellum — the part of the brain that helps with motor skills and balance — wasn't fully developed. Soba came to…

We had our first real snowfall overnight, and Alayne took this photo of blind Sophie this morning after she'd been running around gathering up snowballs in her hair. In the summertime her low-slung body with the feathery hair helps tidy up the yard by collecting leaves and other yard debris, and in winter time she…

Here's an update on another of our adoptees — blind Luke, who came to us in 2006 from a Montana shelter and who was adopted in 2007 by Kate W., one of our fabulous long-time volunteers. Kate's mom Laura, who also had volunteered at the ranch in Ovando for years — what a great team!…

I saw that provocative headline in the Wall Street Journal online this weekend and had to read it. I thought you'd be interested in reading it, too, so here it is: 'It's Just a Dog. Get Over It.' The death of a pet is often dismissed. But treating loss with gravity is better for animals—and…