About a year ago we realized we had a very remarkable foal on our hands in the form of Nikki.  Incredibly smart, calm, easy-going and — dare I say it — gorgeous, too.  A dream foal, except for one small problem.  She was blind. Her first few months of life had been rough, but by…

Evelyn turned out to have far more problems with her eyes than we ever imagined.  During his examination yesterday morning, our veterinary ophthalmologist Dr. Yakely found Evelyn to have multiple eye conditions that precluded any surgery other than removal of both eyes.  We knew Evelyn had cataracts and detached lens.  Well, she also had detached…

Evelyn and I left the ranch late this afternoon and headed to Spokane, Washington.  Evelyn has an appointment with our veterinary ophthalmologist, Dr. Bill Yakely, on Monday morning.  For this sweet blind Lab, it’s also a trip home in a way — she originally came to us from Spokane Animal Control. I took the photo…

Have you ever noticed that big dogs like to curl up in very small dog beds?  Sometimes they seem to seek out the smallest bed in the house to sleep on.  As an example, here is blind Kenai, all 90 pounds of her, trying to fit herself into a Dachshund-size bed that’s no bigger than…

Our farrier, Rich Boyle, came out today on his regularly scheduled trip to trim all the horses’ hooves.  Here he is giving our new arrival blind Luna her first Rolling Dog Ranch pedicure.  She had been rolling and then lying down taking a nap just before we got there, which is why she’s a bit…

We have a couple in Missoula who are considering adopting our handsome boy Buddy.  They know he came to us as a blind dog from Spokane Animal Control.  Buddy had progressive retinal atrophy, in which the retinas degenerate over time.  However, in the two years that Buddy’s been here, we — that would be Alayne…

I took the blind mare we picked up on Sunday in Wyoming to see our equine vet, Dr. Bill Brown, this afternoon.  Our immediate concern was having Luna’s painful eye condition treated.  Her right eye appeared to be an empty socket, while her left eye was sunken and infected. In the first photo Bill and…

We had our regular delivery of dog food today from our distributor, R & R Pet Foods in Lewiston, Idaho.  They handle the Natura line of premium pet foods, including Innova and California Natural, which is the formula we’re feeding.  We had always wanted to use the Natura products but couldn’t afford the retail prices…

Kathryn and I drove to Sheridan, Wyoming today to pick up a blind horse name Luna.  She had just been saved from slaughter by a Denver group called Heavenly Horse Rescue in Aurora, Colorado.  They called us right after they saw Luna at the auction house and asked if we could take her.  Pete Davies,…

Here’s blind Chance getting his last chemotherapy treatment today.  Our equine vet, Dr. Bill Brown, is slowly injecting the drug, Cytoxan, directly into Chance’s vein.  Chance has held up to the onslaught of the chemo drugs much better than our old mule, Lonesome George, whose chemo treatment we stopped early because it was trashing his…