Our horse trainer, Nichole Zupan, came by for her regular Monday evening workout with blind Nikki.  I took this photo while Nichole was saddling up Nikki for a session in the round pen.  Nichole’s schedule with Nikki is Monday and Wednesday evenings and Friday mornings.  We try to keep to this three times-a-week routine, weather…

I was headed out to start barn chores this evening when I looked back over my shoulder and saw this rather peculiar sight by the front of the house.  Deaf-and-blind Spinner, wearing a cone on her head, was pressed up against the wall as if she were listening for termites or trying to pick up…

We noticed yesterday evening that our blind horse Chance hadn’t eaten all day.  Usually he plows through all the hay and grain we can give him.  He is beginning to deteriorate from his two-year long battle with lymphoma.  Just in the past two months he’s begun losing weight and his hair coat has become dull,…

So … THIS morning when I went into the cat house to clean, look what I found — wobbly Mink and deaf Snowball squeezed into that little round bed.  It turns out there IS room for two after all, assuming you like a tight fit.  Lulu was right, and apparently Mink just wasn’t very accommodating…

I walked into the cat house this morning to clean and found this sight waiting for me:  Wobbly Mink and one-eyed Lulu rather awkwardly sharing a bed.  Clearly there was only room for one cat in the bed, and that was Mink.  That didn’t stop Lulu from wanting to share the bed, though.  And since…

I drove to Spokane today to meet a volunteer from the Columbia Basin Equine Rescue group, Megan V., who was bringing a blind mare to us from the Tri-cities area of Washington.  Megan’s group works to save feedlot horses that are headed to slaughter, and they buy the ones they think they can adopt out…

I took three-legged Cody in to see our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, today for a recheck on his cancer.  Cody completed his chemotherapy course about three weeks ago, but there were still a few very small remaining lesions at the base of his, um, penis.  Yes, it was a transmissible venereal…

I was over at Widget’s House, our main dog building, taking photos for our winter newsletter when deaf Tyler suddenly sprang to life, hopped on a dog cot, and pressed his nose against the wall.  And then he just stood there, motionless.  He must have remained like this for a full minute, which is a…

Our farrier, Rich Boyle, came out today to trim the horses’ hooves.  Rich comes every 6 to 8 weeks, and it takes about five and a half hours to do the Rolling Dog Ranch herd of 24 blind horses and 6 sighted ones.  In this photo Rich is working on our Belgian draft horse Rooster. …

There’s something about heights that Travis, our dog with a fused jaw, just loves.  I took this photo yesterday in the paddock on the east side of Widget’s House.  Travis would much rather be ON something than IN it.  Like dog houses, for instance.  We’ll look over from the main house and see Travis sitting…