Tyler, a deaf English Pointer, has been with us at the ranch for several years.  He lives at Widget’s House, our main building for disabled dogs, and has his choice of three different comfy dog beds to sleep on at night.  Earlier this week, I was startled to go over one morning and find him…

Some faithful blog readers may remember that back in July we had a crew here from ABC News to tape a story for Good Morning America.  Well, after more than four months of anxiously waiting to hear when the story would air — and beginning to doubt if  it ever would! — we finally heard…

This is little Daisy, a miniature Dachshund who arrived today from a rescue group in the Salt Lake City area.  They had pulled her from the City of Ogden shelter, where she had been surrendered, adopted twice and brought back each time.  At that point they considered her ‘unadoptable.’  Daisy has a spinal problem which…

Here at the Rolling Dog Ranch Hotel & Spa, it seems one of our primary roles is to serve as a doorman for the various guests. When we’re not busy letting dogs in and out all day long, we’re taking horses in and out.  (And when we’re not being doormen, we’re providing concierge, chauffeur, food…

Alayne took these photos this evening while I was giving blind Darby, a recent arrival from Washington state, her medications.  Darby is on an antibiotic for a lingering infection from wounds she received before she came here.  She was beat up and cut up, and you can see some of the scars and scabs on…

Alayne and I gave blind Brynn, now 5 months old, a bath this afternoon … well, more like a shower with a hose.  Brynn has an ectopic ureter, which means one kidney is sending urine not to her bladder but instead to her uterus.  (Ectopic ureters can actually end up taking urine to the strangest…

The wonderful folks at West Paw Design in Bozeman, Montana — who make our favorite dog beds among other great pet products — kindly sent us a huge box of donated goodies yesterday.  Blind Goldie with the incredible nose (see Monday’s post) went absolutely crazy because she KNEW there were soft toys with squeakers inside…

Somewhere along the way in the past few months, blind Callie the Dachshund decided she’d be a personal groomer for the other dogs.  She loves to give their backs a careful going-over, licking them clean.  Oddly, she ONLY does backs … nothing else, please.  And she focuses only on the big dogs, for some reason,…

Blind Goldie, who has one of the best noses in the nose business, convinced herself this weekend there was still food in the stack of empty dog dishes.  She kept jumping up on the green Rubbermaid tub (where we store the dry dog food) so she could push the dishes around, hoping (I think) to…

The November/ December issue of Bark Magazine has just come out with a wonderful feature story on the sanctuary. In the magazine’s preview of the article, they described it as "A visit to the amazing Rolling Dog Ranch — a sanctuary for disabled animals in Big Sky country — get inspired!" We actually haven’t seen…