As you can probably imagine, we are always doing laundry around here.  On any given day we do about five to seven loads, most of it the dog and cat bedding. That means there's always a stack or two (or three) of freshly laundered bedding, neatly folded and waiting to go back to one of…

This is a wonderful update on blind Creighton, who came to us in the spring of 2008 from Mississippi and was adopted a few months later by Peggy and Matt M. of Olympia, Washington.  Peggy and Matt renamed him Emmitt Creighton III, and have sent us periodic updates on him and their other blind Labs. …

After our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, removed some growths from blind Goldie's leg a couple of weeks ago, she pretty much left the surgery sites alone.  But then she decided it was time to rip off the bandages and begin removing the sutures herself, so we had to come up with…

Our vet Dr. Brenda Culver came out today for our annual health exam and vaccination day for the dogs and cats.  Brenda hadn't seen blind Madison before, so she did an eye exam as part of Madison's complete physical.  The very first thing we noticed gave us that "ohmigosh" feeling — Madison's pupils dilated as…

I drove to Pullman on Thursday afternoon and picked up blind Gabe at Washington State University's veterinary teaching hospital on Friday morning.  When I was going through the discharge paperwork with the oncologist, Dr. Janean Fidel, and Gabe's case manager, Ida P., it occurred to me that since arriving at the ranch, Gabe has actually…

Well, she kept tugging at my heart strings and I couldn't take it any longer.  I brought Miss Madison over to the house so she could live with us.  Yes, she even has "overnight" privileges, joining the very few who stay in the house during the night:  Goldie, Bailey, Spinner, Helen, and Holly.  And now…

Blind Gabe's long stay for radiation treatment at Washington State University's veterinary teaching hospital is coming to a close — if all goes well this week, I will be picking him up on Friday and bringing him back to the ranch.  In the meantime, the 4th-year vet student who is Gabe's current case manager, Ida…

We were recently planting some tree saplings in the front yard when little Dexter arrived on the scene to show Alayne how to dig a hole properly.  Not satisfied with either her technique or her speed, he decided to make her first hole deeper and wider, and then moved on to improve her second hole,…

I got this photo the other day of blind Madison enjoying her morning routine — grazing.  Yes, grazing.  I don't know what it is exactly, but she and blind Penny love to eat a little green grass first thing in the morning after I let them out.  To show you how particular they are, these…

When we got up this morning, we found Bailey had thrown up overnight in the dining room where he sleeps in his little alcove.  He looked and acted like he clearly didn't feel well.  His temperature was slightly elevated, at 102.8° (39.3° C).  We called our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, who…