On Friday morning I was letting the dogs out at Widget's House and had just reached Timmy's crate when I noticed drops of blood on the floor outside his crate door.  As I opened the crate, I could see the paw on his crippled leg was a bloody mess.  He had blood dripping down his…

I got these photos a while back and forgot I had them on the computer … but here is blind-and-deaf Spinner working her way into her favorite chair.  Because she is blind and deaf, and because these chairs are also the favorite of some previously identified snapping Dachshunds (a.k.a. Daisy), she begins the process quite…

I got this shot of blind Moose the other day when I was taking photos for our spring newsletter.  Because he always hangs his big head down low — must weigh a lot, eh? — it's tough to get a photo of him with his head up.  So I got down low and put the…

Well, it took us a while, and we had lots of great names to choose from, but we finally decided what to call these two adorable little dogs: Spencer and Katie, for Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.  They have settled into a routine here, and have figured out where everything is.  In fact, when we…

After blind Helen had a terrible experience with gastrointestinal hemorrhaging last December as a side-effect of her chemotherapy, our vets decided it was time for a "chemo holiday."  It was going to be only for a few weeks, but the hemorrhaging really took a lot out of Helen, and she just wasn't herself.  So we…

I've been working on our spring/summer newsletter, and the very last photo I needed was the one of Alayne and me for the "ranch letter" on page 2.  We always have an animal in the photo with us, and we generally pick one that will, well, cooperate!  So we thought Madison would be a great…

We were eating lunch the other day when Alayne looked over and saw blind-and-deaf Spinner sleeping in an entirely new position — head down and off the chair.  Daisy was below her on the cot, apparently unaware of … or at least unconcerned about … Spinner's seemingly precarious position right behind and above her. I…

I got this photo of little Bailey this past weekend, soaking up the sun along the front wall of our house, which faces south.  We have a big, wide gravel pad there in front of the house we call "the beach," and you can see how the sun has begun melting the snow, exposing more…

This is our newest arrival, Ella, who came from Shreveport on Friday evening.  She completes our four-pack from Louisiana for the month of February!  As you can see, she's missing the front leg we had to have amputated before she could travel to us.  Ella is a beautiful, sweet girl but is very scared —…

Alayne got this photo of Widget last weekend snoozing soundly.  To show you just how resourceful some of these blind dogs are, Widget had grabbed the green fleece throw from the other chair with her mouth and dragged it over to the second chair.  Then she twirled it all around and bunched it up until…