A funny thing happened on the way to New Hampshire.  Our Montana-hardy dogs turned into a bunch of complete weather wusses.  For dogs who were used to frequent outbreaks of sustained sub-zero temperatures all winter long, they now act as if they'd just moved here from Florida.  It's like 20° above (-6 C) has become…

Blind Widget, having already mined her way through the crates in the dog room on a recent day, realized there might be one more unexplored area of potential treasures — the bowls on top of the tubs of food.  I had never seen her climb onto these tubs before, so when I saw her doing…

I hadn't seen this photo that Alayne took until I was uploading images from the camera onto my Mac, and it was a bit startling when it suddenly filled the screen … at first glance, it's not clear that there's a body attached to Holly's head.  But the "whole" Holly was indeed there, snuggled up…

Back in November, I posted a "cheek by jowl" photo of blind Briggs sleeping with his face buried under blind Madison's head.  Apparently it doesn't really matter to him which end of Madison he's sleeping next to … as long as she's warm and close, he's happy! — Already In 3rd Place! The new Shelter…

Alayne noticed blind Widget climbing into the laundry basket bed one recent morning and thought, "uh oh, isn't Dexter in the basket too?"  She had seen him get into the basket earlier in the morning but didn't see him in it at the moment, so he had either climbed out … or buried himself in…

You'd better get some Kleenex for this one. The email subject line said: "Deaf/blind poodle pup in Sacramento has until 6pm tonight."  It was 5:16 p.m. Tuesday evening here in New Hampshire when it arrived in my inbox.  It was 2:16 p.m. on the West Coast.  The email came from a rescue coordinator for a…

I received these photos in the past 24 hours of three of our adoptees on the West Coast.  Jennifer M., who along with her husband Paul adopted Ella from us a couple of months ago, sent me that photo of their beautiful girl lounging on the couch.  This is a once-shy dog who clearly has…

I'm going to take a blog break for the holidays and will resume posting the first week in January.  In the meantime, I thought I would leave you with these images for the Christmas season.  I took these two photos of blind Goldie and blind Widget a few minutes ago, sleeping in the chairs downstairs…

Alayne got this shot of me carrying blind Fuzzy and blind Clyde out to the front yard first thing this morning.  A few of our more "vocal" guests spend the night in the recently built "Dog Wing Annex" on the second floor of the barn.  This group of guests include Miss Party Hearty herself, Widget,…

This little tyke arrived shortly after 9 a.m. this morning from Louisiana.  Rebecca Y., who runs the Shreveport rescue group Becky's Bridge, took him in from another shelter in the state.  In her email to me a couple of weeks ago, she wrote, "Is there any chance of you taking a blind, senior yorkie?  He…