We discovered our new arrival, blind Gabe, has his own peculiar drinking style.  While blind Samantha likes to put both feet in the water bucket, Gabe for some reason likes to drink with just one foot in the water dish.  And he's very particular about this, mind you, because he will only put his left…

I saw blind Callie sitting in front of the TV yesterday morning, as if she were waiting for someone to turn it on for her — or to show her how to use the remote, I guess.  Usually we have CNN or CNBC on during the day (muted), though we know she prefers the Food…

Now here's a boy you may not recognize unless you've been reading the blog for a long time.  This is Jasper, a German Short-haired Pointer who came to us in 2002 with a crippled front leg.  Fast forward to 2006, when Jasper was adopted by Laurie B. from Bozeman, Montana.  Laurie had two young Vizsla…

Last Thursday I took blind Helen over to our vet clinic in Helena to start her chemotherapy.  We had waited an additional week for one more lab report to come back — an immunohistochemistry.  Because Helen had lost a leg last year to fibrosarcoma, and the initial pathology on one of the growths our vets…

Well, it could have been worse. Our internal medicine specialist in Helena, Dr. Britt Culver, last Monday put a scope down Gabe's throat to see what was causing his breathing problem, and quickly found the answer:  A tumor in his nasopharynx region, where the nasal passages enter the throat.  Essentially his nose is blocked at…

Wendy M. from Missoula, who adopted blind Stoney and blind-and-deaf Baron back in June, just emailed us a wonderful update on them along with some new photos.  For that photo above, Wendy wrote:  "Baron's favorite thing to do is sleep in on these cold mornings, so I included a picture of him refusing to wake…