Since I’ve been on the subject of sheep recently, let me admit I’m a bit sheepish about taking this long to introduce our first employee, Beth S.  She joined us last fall, and just recently completely her first 90 days.  I think initially I hadn’t blogged Beth’s arrival because, well, we weren’t sure she’d want…

Molly the sheep is now able to stand up in the hay feeder.  She had company today:  Myrtle, another of our four sheep, decided to join Molly inside the feeder this afternoon.  <sigh>  She obviousy thought Molly was onto a good thing.  I have this sinking feeling by morning we’ll find the other two sheep,…

We never know what we might find when we get up in the morning, and we kind of hold our breath until we make the first rounds.  Today’s surprise was finding Molly the sheep stuck in the round bale feeder.  (Yes, we have a handful of rescued sheep … it’s not our focus, but we…

Last night I posted some of the financial numbers from our year-end accounting.  Tonight I thought I’d share some of the animal numbers for last year. For instance, new arrivals in 2005 were: 18 dogs — 10 were blind, 3 were deaf, 4 had neurological disorders and 1 had a limb deformity 8 cats —…

If you’ve wondered why we’ve been unusually quiet on the blog front, it’s because I’ve been buried working on year-end accounting for the sanctuary!  I’ve spent hours huddled with QuickBooks, bank statements, receipts, and check stubs, trying to get the final data entered into the computer so I could send the numbers off to our…

A week to the day he went into the hospital, little Cody finally came home to the ranch.  Alayne picked him up at Dr. Dave Bostwick’s clinic in Missoula this afternoon.  Despite having life-threatening parvo, this tyke actually looked like he had grown in the week he’d been gone! He is back to being the…

It looks like Cody is going to survive his bout with parvo and may be able to come home tomorrow!  Dr. Dave Bostwick, our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, called this morning to say Cody is "feeling great, barking and jumping."  He is off IV’s now and in general is acting like a frisky little…

The New Year started off on a great note for us.  Our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, called this morning to say that Cody the puppy is doing better and may have turned the corner in his battle with parvo.  Cody’s temperature is back to normal, his diarrhea has lessened in severity,…

Our farrier, Rich Boyle, came out today for his regular visit to trim the horses’ hooves.  With 27 horses to trim, this is basically an all-day affair now for Rich. In the first photo Rich is working on Beaver, one of our two sighted Belgian draft horses.  (You’ll read more about Beaver and his brother…

Our internist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, called today to say that Cody was having a worse day than yesterday.  He is now experiencing bloody diarrhea, which is typical of parvo, so he is progressing through the various phases.  He continues to be on IV’s and antibiotics.  We are just hoping that because we detected…