Darla is recovering from cancer surgery she had yesterday at Peak Veterinary Referral Center in Burlington. In the photo is Peak's board-certified surgeon, Dr. Kurt Schulz, operating on Darla, assisted by his surgery tech Theresa.   Just over a week ago I discovered a round, flat growth smaller than a dime on her left side…

This young fellow arrived last Wednesday night, brought out to us by our pet transport company, TLC Pet Transport. He had been picked up as an emaciated stray and held in an Arkansas animal control shelter for over a month. He was facing euthanasia because his time was up, the kennels were overflowing, and the…

Vicky L., who adopted blind Lucy from us back in 2011, just sent us some more photos … including the one above of daughter Kendall on the left and Lucy on the right. Please notice how together they take up the entire couch and leave no room for Mom or anyone else. I told Vicky…

This is Darla's usual starting mealtime position — at my end of the table on the right hand side. I say "starting" position because she has begun migrating around the table, to each corner, after getting a treat. This is apparently her attempt to convince us she isn't the same dog we just fed a…

That's our internal medicine specialist, Dr. Marielle Goossens of Peak Veterinary Referral Center in Burlington, inserting tongue depressors in Travis' mouth. (Click on photo for larger image.) When I took the photo last Thursday, Dr. Goossens was inserting the 17th tongue depressor. She was on her way to getting 20 in that day, which turned…

Alayne recently got this shot of blind Sophie parading around the house with a wooden door stop she discovered in the laundry room. Now, we've had these door stops in various rooms for years, so why this one became a newly found treasure we don't really know. But since Sophie just had an extensive dental…

Not content with being the World's-Most-Expensive-Chihuahua, Wilbur continued to run up the score just in case any other Chihuahuas out there were coveting his title. (If necessary, we can always amend it to the World's-Most-Expensive-One-Eyed-Chihuahua.) Early Friday morning, as I was preparing to leave for Burlington to take another dog for a specialist appointment, Alayne…

Back in September I mentioned in a post how Darla had managed to break all the rules, and in the process also staked a claim to the spare room on the second floor as her personal bedroom. Yes, that's her "dog bed" these days. And when her gentle tail-thumping isn't enough to bring us into…

On Saturday morning we woke up to our first snow, and Alayne got this shot of Widget skittering across the yard. One of her meds now requires that we give her the first dose at 6:30 a.m., so every morning Widget does a bright and early pre-pill romp around the yard. On Saturday, relishing the…

Way back in 2006, we adopted out a handsome young fellow named Buddy to Susan S. in Missoula. Susan was not only kind enough to give this big, blind boy a loving home, but she's periodically sent us updates on him. She just sent us that photo above, along with a note saying Buddy is…