Our two-year old blind filly, Nikki, is now cantering after just two months of training by our talented horse trainer, Nichole Zupan.  It’s hard to believe Nikki’s very first training session was at the end of April, and here she is, not only being ridden but cantering at a good clip! I shot this video…

Regular blog readers probably remember some classic Widget sleeping photos in months past.  Well, Alayne and I were eating lunch yesterday when I looked over and saw this sight in the living room:  Blind Widget sound asleep on the cot in her own unique "Widget style" position.  I quietly sneaked off to my office to…

I noticed this morning when we were preparing to take horses out to pasture that one of our blind horses, Domino, had a puffy left eye.  The surrounding tissue was all red and swollen, although the eyeball itself looked normal.  And no, he certainly didn’t want me poking around in there!  Beth took this photo…

I headed out this evening with the camera to see if I could find a "blog moment."  (With 75 animals, someone is bound to be doing something!)  But I was barely past our back door when I turned around and saw this scene:  Blind Goldie, patiently waiting by the front of the house for Alayne…

That funny looking little thing in Alayne’s arms is Ricky, an old deaf guy who came to us just recently from a woman in Lincoln, Montana.  (Lincoln is about 20 miles east of us.)  He’s actually quite a bit smaller than he looks in this photo I took this evening … he weighs in at…

I took our blind foal Brynn into Missoula today for an echocardiogram of her heart.  Our small animal internal medicine specialist, Dr. Dave Bostwick, had offered to use his state-of-the-art ultrasound equipment to do the echocardiogram.  (His machine even does cool stuff like color Doppler imaging to trace blood flow.)  So I trailered Brynn to…

This is blind Ashley, who came to us as an 8-week old puppy from a shelter in California in October of 2005. You can see what she originally looked like here.  When she was still a small puppy, we adopted her out to a friend and volunteer, Liz S. of Missoula. Liz is leaving on…

Our pet food distributor delivered our latest order of dog and cat food this afternoon.  In this photo we’ve just opened the back of their trailer, and our employee Beth is doing her best Vanna White imitation to show you the pallet marked "Rolling Dog Ranch." On that pallet were twenty 36 lb bags of…

This is blind Rosie, an American Quarter Horse mare who lost her eyesight to training abuse many years ago.  She arrived today.  Rosie went blind at the age of four, but her owners at the time kept her because of her sweet disposition.  But two years ago they gave her to another family in the…

We just discovered that little blind Brynn, who came to the sanctuary last weekend when she was one-week old, has major medical problems aside from her blindness. We noticed when she arrived that she peed a lot, but the folks who brought her assured us this was normal for her, and we knew that foals…