So what's a big 115 lb livestock guardian dog supposed to do on a rainy "indoor" day?  Why, chew on a huge kong, of course! It was pouring rain this morning, which meant leaving the goats and their "bodyguards" in their pens. (Did you know goats hate getting wet?) Aaron is now one year old…

The only two completely dog-free zones in the house are our bedroom and my chair in the corner of the living room. That's the same chair that has moved with us from Seattle to Montana and on to New Hampshire. It's the same chair that survived Priscilla the blind Poodle shredding the seat cushion a…

Our wonderful groomer, Lori Fillion from Littleton, was here most of yesterday grooming several of her usual clients, as well as new arrival blind Zach. Alayne got this shot of three of them seeing her off as she left in late afternoon. That's Scamp on the left, Bentley in the middle, and Zach. Scamp and…

Our new arrival, blind Darla, is one food-motivated older lady. Because we feed the dogs dinner in their crates, she now associates the crates with food. So even before I arrive to start serving up dinner, Miss Darla heads to the dog room and finds an open crate to sit in. She's convinced that this…

Speaking of barbarians at the gate, we've had Wilbur on a diet for the last few months because … well, because he was getting a bit chunky. He protested the new diet, of course, but recently discovered one unintended (and potentially exciting) benefit — his new, slimmer body now can almost fit through the bars…

Blind Sophie thought it might be a good idea to show the new kids on the block the best way to get handouts from the humans at the table on the other side of the gate. Sitting and staring, as blind Darla is doing, or standing and staring, as Bentley is doing, is rather ineffective…

This rather rotund fellow is blind Zach, who came from the same shelter as Darla. After we had agreed to take Darla and just before our transport arrived, the shelter director emailed me to say: So the luck of this is like getting hit by lightning – we just had another dog that is blind…

Well, after an anxious month waiting to find out, we had some great news yesterday from Widget's follow-up ultrasound. Our internal medicine specialist, Dr. Tanya Donovan, found that the two suspicious growths in Widget's spleen had not changed at all during the time, so there was nothing we needed to worry about at this point.…

This beautiful girl arrived last week from Michigan, and wow, what a doll she is. Her name is Darla and she is a real love — so affectionate and sweet. We don't know how long she's been blind from her cataracts, but judging from how tentative she is in her movements, we doubt she's been…

Bentley our once-blind Yorkie apparently heard that Wilbur got plenty of points for the "cuteness factor" with his tongue sticking out all the time, so he's showing us he can be just as darn cute with his tongue. We had to do about $700 worth of oral surgery on Bentley while he was still with the…