At a certain point in the winter, when the snow gets deep enough, the dogs typically don't go wandering off any longer (with a few exceptions, like blind Helen and Widget!) but end up sticking to the multiple narrow paths they create around the buildings.  This makes it easier for their humans, too — not…

I know this looks like a Beagle who's not doing anything, but actually blind Willie (who recently came back to us) is about to wind himself up for a morning whirl.  Most mornings now, as soon as Alayne lets him out of Kelly's Cottage, he goes off to pee and then comes back around the…

This is blind and three-legged Helen, who ventured off yesterday morning in the yard and got stuck in snow that was too deep for her.  This has never been a problem for her in the past, but she's really getting up there in age now and she's developed hip dysplasia in her remaining rear leg…

The other evening I heard all this rolling back and forth outside my office door, and turned around at my desk to see blind and wobbly Briggs just having the time of his life.  He had woken from a nap and felt so good he just wanted to roll around on his back … and…

I got this shot on Saturday, when I looked over from the dining table and saw Daisy staring at us with this earnest expression … possibly bordering on dismay.  She was in the living room and we were safely in the dining room, behind the "Barbarian's Gate" we put up last year to allow ourselves…

I noticed our two radiation therapy patients, blind Callie and blind Gabe, lying on a cot together yesterday evening in the living room.  As soon as I started taking photos, Callie sprang to life and gave me this funny nose-up-ears-out look.  (Gabe's ears, on the other hand, are always up-and-out.)  Both Callie and Gabe had…

I got this shot over the weekend of Bailey using his friend Dexter as a pillow.  They were on a bed in the kitchen and the sun had just started coming through the living room windows, and the yummy warmth was causing Bailey to become drowsy.  You can see how his eyes are beginning to…

I was putting the dogs back inside Widget's House today after their morning romp when I noticed blind Molly had a small iceball hanging off her chin.  Even though she kept walking and prancing around the floor, it stayed right there on her chin … and she seemed oblivious to it.  Now, she and her…

Back in November I wrote a post about how a very inexpensive laundry basket, stuffed with fleece bedding, had suddenly become the place to sleep in the house … so much so that we went out and bought some extra baskets, just so we could have our original laundry basket back for its intended purpose. …

Happy New Year, everyone! The day after Christmas, Richard and Julie S. from Olympia, Washington, emailed us these photos of Charlie, our once-blind Beagle they recently adopted.  It looks almost as if Charlie is dreaming that all those presents under the tree are for him.  Richard wrote in the email, "We now have opened a…