This is blind Penny, who arrived a couple of weeks ago along with Mad Max the Dachshund. She had also come to us from Becky's Brigade in Shreveport, which had seen her in a local shelter and asked us if we could take her. Like Max, she was also an owner surrender. Penny was absolutely…

This was Widget out on the ramp leading to the people wing the other day. She's ready to come in, and she's broadcasting her intentions to one and all with a lot of woo-woo-wooing long before she ever gets to the door. In fact, she rarely bothers herself with making it up the ramp. She…

We had some new arrivals come while I was out of town recently, so Alayne had her hands full handling the introductions and integration, needless to say! Here is one of the newbies, a 9-year old long-haired Dachshund named Max. He came to us from Becky's Bridge, a rescue group in Shreveport, Louisiana run by…

The other day Alayne saw blind Owen starting to crawl underneath the blankets on the bed in the dog room. She picked up the camera to see if she could chronicle what he was going to do next. As it turned out, he decided to unmake the bed — for reasons known only to himself.…

A couple of days ago Kate and Alayne noticed that our new arrival, blind Billy, kept going into the mud room by the back door and re-arranging the boots and shoes so he could sleep on the boot mat. Three times they picked him up and put him in the dog room, then put the…

I took Billy, the blind Beagle who arrived last week, and little Wilbur to see our veterinary ophthalmologist, Dr. Sarah Hoy, in Burlington, Vermont yesterday. Billy was clearly in a lot of pain from his eyes — we started him on pain medication that day he came — and we needed to get a definitive…

Just five more days was all we had with him. When I took Avery to see the cardiologist last Monday, I knew his heart condition would shorten his life. But I had been thinking we'd have him with us for at least several more months, if not longer. Five months, maybe. Not five days. On…

Blind Goldie may be old, a bit daffy, and sometimes confused about things — "Do I want to go outside?  Wait, wasn't I just outside?" — but if her brain is starting to show the effects of her advanced years (15 and counting), her nose sure isn't. We'll still find her in the kitchen, staring…

Little Wilbur, our newest arrival, is settling in and making himself at home.  He spent his first couple of weeks in a bumper bed, keeping pretty much to himself, but in the past few days he's started getting out and about. I took these photos yesterday — the one with Dexter was about 7:45 in…

Last Monday Alayne took our new arrival Wilbur to our vet clinic, Whitefield Animal Hospital, for his initial screening. In the photo above, Dr. Nancy Lefavour is using a Tono-Pen to check the eye pressure in Wilbur's bulging eye. (The Tono-Pen belongs to us and we have loaned it to the clinic, since they didn't…