This afternoon Alayne took Widget to see Dr. Brenda Culver at Montana Veterinary Specialists in Helena for Widget’s final check-up on her prosthetic eye.  Brenda was delighted with how the eye looked and said it has healed exactly the way it should.  Widget no longer will need her medications or eye ointments.  The biggest and…

Our blind and deaf girl Angel died tonight.  She had just been diagnosed with kidney failure only a few weeks ago, but fluid therapy and medications were not enough.  Yesterday evening she didn’t want to eat any food, and the same again with breakfast today.  Angel suddenly seemed kind of lost and vacant.  This afternoon…

One of our least favorite activities in winter is filling the water tanks for the horses.  With 16 tanks ranging in size from 70 gallons to 300 gallons spread across three barns and more than a dozen corrals, filling those tanks is quite a chore. Especially when it’s, say, 8 above zero.  Our biggest problem…

Alayne and I had just sat down to dinner tonight when I looked over and saw this scene:  blind Widget laying on the dog cot, staring right at the fire in the wood stove, with her cone serving as a solar collector of sorts.  (Regular blog readers may remember a recent photo of Widget using…

Beth captured this shot of blind Nikki trying to come in the side door to Lena’s Barn.  Nikki had come to us in 2004 as a blind 4-month foal from New Jersey.  Today she is a gorgeous, stunning filly who is as smart as she is beautiful.  Nikki is inquisitive, affectionate and — let’s be…

Yesterday you saw Travis, our dog with a fused jaw, in jail.  Today he got a complete makeover, courtesy of Kathryn and Beth.  Travis has a stomach tube, and even though we rarely have to use it anymore — he’s learned to slurp his liquid diet out of the corner of his mouth, and he…

We have an open, home-style environment here, where the dogs have big fenced paddocks to run around in during the day.  (The various paddocks range in size from 1/2 acre up to 2 acres.)  In recent weeks the increasing snowpack has been pulling the fences down, providing an opportunity for enterprising escape artists to sneak…

http://www.dropshots.com/dropshotsplayer.swfVideo Sharing at DropShots.com I finally figured out how to capture video with our digital camera, and when I saw Bailey this afternoon doing his ‘towel thing’ in the living room, I grabbed the camera and shot this video.  The living room usually starts out rather neat in the morning, but by the time Bailey…

Bailey’s new favorite toy is this shaggy bear.  It had been in the toy chest in the living room in recent weeks until someone … probably Birdie … pulled it out again.  That’s when Bailey discovered it.  He just loves this thing.  I took the photo this morning while Bailey was snoozing in the sun…

Last night I headed out as usual to close up the barns about 9:30 p.m. and check on all the large animals.  I am usually conned into feeding more hay to the horses, who manage to convince me they really didn’t get all the dinner they’re entitled to.  I was in Lena’s Barn filling Nikki’s…