Alayne took our new arrival, tiny Pip, last week to see our internal medicine specialist, Dr. Tanya Donovan. We were concerned about a growth on his neck, as well as his underlying health, given his age and physical condition — he's very, very thin. In the photo above, Tanya is doing an ultrasound-guided draw of…

Here's our newest one, little Pip … and by little I mean 3.5 lbs (1.5 kg) little! He arrived Saturday a week ago, brought by Gale Lang's TLC Pet Transport. Pip came to us from Atlanta Beagle Rescue, which has sent us many blind Beagles over the years. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking,…

Alayne got this shot of Max rolling with his cone over the weekend. She was on the front porch looking over the railing at him. Even rolling, even upside down, even with a cone on, he never takes his eyes off her. As of today, however, his cone is finally off. Alayne took Max and…

This boy came to us a couple of weeks ago from an animal control officer in Vermont. Sparky's owners recently went to jail, where they will be staying for a long, long time, and the remaining family did not want any of the dogs left behind. As the animal control officer told me on the…

This is blind Billy sleeping in his favorite place — the top of the stairs. If it's not this set of stairs leading up to our offices on the second floor of the people wing, it's the stairs going to the room above the dog wing. He started doing this almost from the day he…

When my phone rang on Thursday at 1 p.m., I knew immediately who it was. When I answered, all she said was, "He can see!" Followed by, "And he's a pistol!" It was our veterinary ophthalmologist, Dr. Sarah Hoy, who had just performed cataract surgery on Max, the Dachshund who arrived a month ago. We…

We were taking photos for the "farm letter" in our spring/summer print newsletter, and as usual there were some outtakes I thought you'd enjoy seeing. Mitch, our blind Husky who recently had his eyes removed, was our subject, and Kate was the photographer. This first set of photos were all taken in the same sequence,…

Now that's a photo I wasn't sure you'd ever see. When Bugsy arrived on a Sunday evening a month ago, we had expected a lovable cuddlebug of a dog. That's how he had been at the foster home in North Carolina where he had stayed for weeks until our transport could pick him up. He…

Yes, funny boy Owen was adopted yesterday by none other than Marcia S., who adopted blind Suzi from us in November 2010!  Suzi is doing just great, and over the past 18 months Marcia has kept in touch with us about potentially adding another blind dog to her family down in Connecticut. A few weeks ago…

During our visit to the ophthalmologist the previous week, Wilbur also had his follow-up exam after his lensectomy surgery. The results were great — Dr. Hoy loved how his eye looked, and he passed all tests with flying colors. I may not be quoting this exactly right, but at one point she said something like,…