This is blind Dusty, looking quite the part for a Montana snow dog.  I took the photo this weekend, when Dusty was in the front paddock of Widget’s House.  Dusty had been a sled dog before he came to us a few years ago, and he was used to sleeping outside on the ground or…

The wonderful folks at Bark Magazine kindly emailed us a PDF of the terrific article on the ranch from their November/December 2006 issue and gave us permission to post it online.  So we did — this evening!  You can find it by going to our sanctuary Web site home page and clicking on the image…

Seattle’s KING TV aired a story about the sanctuary Monday night on their Evening Magazine program, and they’ve now posted it on their Web site.  They first ran the piece a few years ago, so we’ve definitely grown since then, but the story is superb and many of the animals you see in the piece…

Nichole and I had a special day at the equine vet convention in San Antonio today.  In the morning we met Dr. Dennis Brooks, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, for the first time.  We’ve "met" Dr. Brooks many times via email but never in person; he provided a…

We’re in San Antonio for the annual convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners, i.e., all horse vets in the country.  Our horse trainer, Nichole Zupan, joined me for the trip.  As someone who has trained a born-blind horse for riding — our two-year old Nikki — Nichole is uniquely positoned to help tell…

Blind Callie, Dachshund No. 4, offered up a hard-to-ignore photo op today.  Callie was apparently a bit miffed that she only had a passing mention in Monday’s blog about the "other" Dachshunds.  (All "minis," she points out a bit huffily.  "Not much to them.")  As this photo makes clear, there’s definitely a LOT to this…

I was moving 10 tons of big round hay bales this afternoon with the tractor and kept looking at the stunning view off in the distance.  So just before moving the final bale, I stopped at the house and picked up the camera to take this shot.  The bale in front weighs about 1,200 pounds,…

The Dachshunds at the ranch just love the woodstove in our living room.  Whenever we have a fire going — which is every night this time of year — there’s always a Dachshund nearby, sometimes all of them.  I took this photo tonight, shortly after Alayne and I had come in from feeding the horses…

We wish we knew why the story about the sanctuary didn’t air on Good Morning America on Thanksgiving or Friday.  To everyone who watched GMA both days waiting to see it, sorry!  We knew there were no guarantees that the story would run, but still, we were disappointed.  I think it’s just in the nature…

I’ve been trying for a year to get this photo.  That’s Wobbles on the left sharing the basket bed with Claire.  It’s the first time since Claire arrived last December that I’ve seen them together like this … so when I walked into the cat house this weekend and saw them side-by-side, I quickly left…