I was planning to write a really upbeat post about our final day at the Seattle vet convention until Alayne called from the ranch this morning with awful news.  Champagne Bob, our little handicapped cat who had beaten the odds his entire life, died late last night.  He had a rare disease called Mucopolysaccharidosis Type…

We had another great day at the equine vet convention in Seattle.  Here’s a photo of our volunteer Liz  S. at our exhibit that I took this evening just as we were getting ready to leave.  In the photo I posted yesterday, you couldn’t see either Liz or the exhibit display very well, so I…

Our wonderful volunteer Liz S. and I are in Seattle today for the 51st annual convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners — all the horse vets in the country.  There are about 2,500 at the convention.  We’re here to communicate our message about blind horses … that they can have a wonderful quality…

We heard little blind Ashley the puppy barking like mad quite a distance from the house this afternoon.  Usually she doesn’t venture far from the front or back door, but today she wandered off until she was 20 yards from the house and deep in snow.  She had been trying to figure out how to…

One of the things Alayne and I spend a lot of time doing is responding to calls and e-mails from people across the country who have blind horses.  Often they are asking if we can take the animal, but other times they’re asking us for advice or just re-assurance because they want to keep the…

Alayne came home this afternoon with Callie, the blind Dachshund the Bitterroot Humane Association called us about.  Callie is sweet, affectionate, and just a little doll (if a bit plump!).  She gets along well with all the other dogs, from large to small, although she is tough enough to stand up for herself.  This evening…

We just agreed to take a blind, 9-year old female Dachshund named Callie.  The Bitterroot Humane Association in Hamilton, Montana, called us about her yesterday.  We had the shelter drop her off at a vet clinic in Missoula today for a medical and eye exam, and Alayne will go into town tomorrow to pick her…

Okay, so this may not look like a waiter with a dinner tray and fancy linen to you, but to our horses, this is room service indeed.  After a day of snow and temperatures that barely got above 20 degrees, for the horses there is no finer sight than a tractor carrying 500 pounds of…

Our fabulous graphic designer, Terrel Armstrong, just set up our new slide show this evening.  The photos were taken by a Missoula photographer, Logan Castor Parson, earlier this summer for a wedding that occurred in October.  The bride and groom are wonderful friends and supporters of the sanctuary, and they wanted their wedding guests to…

We updated the Web site over the holiday weekend and posted our new arrivals as well as the digital version of our new winter newsletter.  We also had some great news to announce with Pappy’s Fund!  You can see it all from our Web site home page here. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We…