Alayne saw this scene over Thanksgiving … three of the Dachshunds all together in a circle (of sorts). That's blind Sophie on the left, Dexter on top, and Belvie on the right. A very contented trio. Speaking of Dachshunds … did I mention last week we had two new arrivals to introduce?  Hmm… — Final Contest…

First, we hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! Okay, so this particular welcome is a bit overdue — Bertie came to us from Atlanta Beagle Rescue back in August! But he got off to a bad start his very first night here, when he bit my hand … hard enough to draw blood but…

A few minutes after we let the dogs out the other morning, our barn cat Smoke saw blind Penny the Yorkie drinking from the bucket by the fence and headed straight for her. Something about Penny caught his attention, and he kept trying to reach her by sticking his paw through the fence. (I took…

Just a quick update on Bugsy, who we affectionately refer to these days as "Little Man" (though I don't know why). He has completed his transition from the terrifying dog who first arrived here to a wonderful, loving and sweet boy. I took the photo this afternoon in the dog room. Bugsy always looks bigger…

So Dexter the Dachshund's overturned bed has become someone else's … well, we call it his throne. As in, King Wilbur the 1st. To paraphrase an old expression: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed dog is king." Wilbur has basically decided this is where he belongs now. He no longer wants to be…

Our wonderful groomer, Lori Fillion of Littleton, was here yesterday to spiff up a number of the dogs. It turned out to be easier to groom four blind dogs than to get all of them to look at the camera at the same time. (Although to be fair to the dogs, sometimes I've had a…

We have noticed over the years that the smaller dogs have an uncanny ability to find the single hole in a blanket and proceed to get themselves stuck in it. For some reason the hole becomes the only way out of the blanket. Rather than going back the way they came in, i.e., by de-burrowing,…

Wendy M., who adopted blind Stoney and blind and deaf Baron from us a few years ago, recently sent me this photo of the two of them. I'm not sure it can get cuter than that! Baron is wearing a bandage on his foot because he was just at the vet getting an infection treated.…

Some dogs seem to have it made. As in three-legged Ella, who Paul and Jennifer M. adopted from us in 2010. Jennifer sent this photo to me about a week ago, saying "This is what I woke up to this morning. Although she was sleeping, snoring AND drooling….she did open her eyes as the flash…

Willie wasn't the only one who had surgery late last week. Trooper, our hound with the bent front legs, was always very "jowly," with thick folds of skin under his jaw. Recently we noticed some swelling there, but then it would disappear … only to come back. It was soft, felt like fluid, wasn't painful,…