A few weeks ago, blind Cedar began getting out of his crate in Widget's House during the night.  I'd walk in first thing in the morning and find him out in the middle of the floor, with a nice pile of poop left for me to clean up.  We put all the dogs at Widget's…

Whenever there's fresh snow on the ground, blind Dusty loves to stop on his way out the door first thing each morning to lap up several mouthfuls of the crisp, cold white stuff.  There's always a full water bucket on the porch of Widget's House, and he will go back and drink from that later,…

It wasn't only Goldie who got to enjoy the new soft squeaky toys that Gayle sent.  We handed some out to the usual suspects for their enjoyment, too.  In the photo above, Bailey is doing what he always does with a new toy — he rolls and rolls, back and forth, right up against it. …

Blind Goldie got a head start on Christmas when Gayle C. kindly sent the gang here two boxes of soft squeaky toys.  As we posted before, Goldie always knows when there are soft squeaky toys in a box, and she never hesitates to go ahead and open the box herself.  She does this either by…

Long-time blog readers may remember Bailey's fascination with and love for Mr. Caterpillar, a giant pink-and-red stuffed toy who has survived endless insults and injuries inflicted by the Dachshund contingent over the years.  As you can see, Mr. Caterpillar is still very much with us, though a bit worse for the wear and tear.  Bailey…

Although blind Widget is certainly a princess, I'm not sure she would actually feel a pea underneath her in this collection of beds.  There's something about a stack of bedding that always attracts the dogs — comfort hounds they are — even if it takes quite a bit of effort for short-legged royalty like Widget…

Alayne got this shot yesterday of me taking out the sutures from Samantha's surgery site.  As I mentioned on her homecoming day blog post, the growth our vets removed did turn out to be benign, so we dodged a bullet on that one.  We're not always that lucky, so we were very relieved.  Although Sam…

When I took the blind Poodle sisters, Molly and Priscilla, to the groomers at PetsMart a couple of weeks ago, the gals there not only gussied up our girls as they usually do, but this time they also tied little blue ribbons onto their ear muffs.  Now, we're not really into dogs-as-accessory-items, or dogs wearing…

Yes, indeed, blind Helen's chemotherapy has been going very well.  So much so, in fact, that the latest radiographs we took revealed that the tumor in her lungs has significantly reduced in size.  This is not a "cure," but it is buying her time — and for that we are very grateful.  So far Helen…

This is blind Mitch, a handsome Husky who came to us a year ago.  You haven't heard much about him since then because, to be quite honest, for a while there we weren't sure what we were going to do with him.  He arrived with an alpha personality and a dominant "don't mess with me"…