You think it wouldn't be hard to keep your basic, sturdy dog cot in the correct, upright position. Except, well, it is. It seems we are always turning them back over. The dogs' motto on some days appears to be, "Have cot, will flip." But until the other morning, I'd never seen a dog actually…

This is Irene, who was the second dog who arrived on Sunday evening along with blind Owen. She came to us from Kentucky, where she had been turned into a rural shelter on a Friday in early September. The shelter staff saw that this little Shih Tzu/Peke mix was suffering from terrible problems in both…

In my post earlier this week, I mentioned how we let blind Avery stay in his crate in the morning until he's good and ready to come out on his own. Well, in the past several days he's developed a new twist on this — he comes out of his crate and then goes into…

We mailed out our fall newsletter to donors a couple of weeks ago, though it is just now showing up in places like Chicago. We posted a PDF version of it online over the weekend, and it is available here on our website. A funny thing about that beautiful cover photo of blind and deaf…

This is Avery, the blind Beagle from Georgia who arrived back in May, and whose very painful eyes our veterinary ophthalmologist had to remove a few days after he came to us. I had mentioned in that arrival post that he had clearly had a rough life and had been beaten a lot, judging from…

The other morning Alayne was putting some fresh bedding on the cots outside the center hallway. There are usually three to four cots along the wall, often occupied by sleeping dogs of various types and sizes. When she got to Louie the blind Beagle, he woke up from his slumber but refused to budge. As…

A very curious thing started happening this summer. Late in the evening, just after it gets dark, frogs begin coming up the dog ramp and onto the front porch. They don't even wait for the dogs to be put inside before they start hopping up the ramp; they are totally unconcerned by the presence of…

I've posted before about how our big dogs like to lie in the smallest possible dog beds and vice versa. Here's a new twist on that theme. In the front yard we have a large group of dogs that are out during the day together, ranging in size from Labs to Dachshunds. So, of course…

The current issue of New Scientist has a package of several articles on how animals "see" the world around them, and one of the articles is on a dog's sense of smell — not only how acute the sense is, but on how they smell things. And it's different than the way we humans do.…

We were taking photos late yesterday afternoon for the fall print newsletter when Daisy the Dachshund started going after a fly that was buzzing around.  She loves catching flies … she'll be out on the porch, snapping away at them.  And despite being so small and with a bad spine, her reflexes are so quick…