I've posted before about Bailey's odd sleeping habits, whether it's snoozing with his mouth resting on a toy, or only having part of his body covered … and sometimes only his face.  The other afternoon I saw him in the kitchen looking like this, and wondered once more:  why?  Has he heard the line about…

I had forgotten that Alayne had taken this photo of blind Austin and not-blind Charlie acting like Japanese sumo wrestlers the day before Charlie was adopted.  It shows you that tough little Austin was not about to let the bigger, and now seeing, Charlie, push him out of the ring without a real fight!  That's…

I know, this is another impossibly cute Dachshund photo.  But the point of this post is not to showcase another impossibly cute Dachshund, but rather to highlight his expensive and fancy bed.  Yes, a $5.99 plastic laundry basket. We discovered a while ago that the new favorite sleeping spot in the house was a laundry…

This is blind Gabe, who is very happy finally to be completely finished with the side-effects from his radiation treatment — and best of all, he is cone-free now!  You can see the hair loss on his face from the radiation field.  I had emailed a photo of Gabe's face several days ago to his…

I've posted about this once before, quite a while ago: blind Goldie's habit of patiently waiting outside for one of us to come home.  It doesn't matter whether it's Alayne or me who's away from the ranch — she knows her "pack" isn't complete if one of us is missing, and she wants to stay…

I drove back to our vet clinic in Helena today to pick up some animals we'd left there last week, as well as to take blind Helen for her latest chemotherapy treatment.  One of the dogs who came home was blind Samantha, who'd been to the clinic for a dental and to have a growth…

It's understandable if you don't recognize this as blind Gabe, and no, he's not undergoing sensory deprivation either!  He has had a rough go of it since coming home from three weeks of radiation therapy for his nasal tumor at WSU.  The side-effects of the radiation caused the skin around his eyes and the top…

Well, I had tried really hard not to get my hopes up over this, but after we saw blind Madison's pupils respond to light during her eye exam last week, it was impossible not to keep thinking about what it would mean to give Madison the gift of sight, too.  So I was kind of…

Barely a month after his eye surgery to restore his vision, Charlie the once-blind Beagle from Georgia has now been adopted!  Julie and Richard S. from Olympia, Washington, were looking for a friend for their Beagle Hugo.  They had lost their other Beagle, Sampson, about a year ago to cancer, and wanted to find another…

When our primary care vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, was here last Monday to do the annual exams and vaccinations on everyone, she detected a heart murmur in Widget and recommended we get an echocardiogram done.  So when I went to Missoula last Friday to pick up blind Rosie from her colic surgery hospitalization, I took…