I caught our little blind puppy Ashley last night snoozing in her favorite spot, a soft round bumper bed that fits her perfectly (but not for long, she’s growing like a weed!). Each time I took a photo, her expression would change. She wasn’t sure what was going on, but she knew I was there,…

Here’s a photo I took tonight, just a few minutes ago.  We were starting to herd the dogs out the door to start the bedtime process, and I looked over and noticed blind and deaf Spinner sleeping without a care in the world.  There is one (and only one) advantage to being blind and deaf,…

The Deputy County Attorney for Cascade County in Montana — Great Falls is the county seat — called today to see if we could take a blind horse caught up in a large-scale animal cruelty case.  A couple has nearly 140 dogs, 17 cats, 17 horses, and other animals.  Many of the dogs apparently are…

I just got back to the hotel room with Spinner, and I’m sorry to report that our blind and deaf dog is … still blind and deaf.  At least for now.  The eye surgeon was not optimistic when he called immediately after the surgery today.  He had found that her right eye was shrunken in…

Spinner had her consultation this morning with Dr. Tony Basher, the veterinary ophthalmologist and surgeon here in San Diego, and she is now scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning.  Because he had not examined Spinner personally, we needed to get through this ‘checkpoint’ to make sure she was a viable candidate for the surgery. Dr. Basher…

Spinner and I made it to San Diego this evening.  I took the photo of Spinner in the hotel room, soon after we arrived.  As I write this, she is sleeping on the patio outside the room.  This being San Diego, I had dinner on the patio about half an hour ago, looking up at…

This is Buzz, a young Golden Retriever that the Bitterroot Humane Association in Hamilton, Montana, asked if we could take.  They told us he has the ‘wobbles’ … a little unsteady on his feet, falls down sometimes, but is otherwise healthy and happy.  We had not seen Buzz yet, but based on what the shelter…

It takes a lot of food to feed the gang here, and this is how it arrives … 2,500 pounds at a time.  We  place a bulk order with Natural Life Pet Products in Kansas and get a great price for this high quality pet food.  They ship it out to us on two pallets,…

Alayne hauled a full truckload of animals to our vets in Helena today.  In the back of the truck are, on the left, Fluff and Puff Hooligan, our ‘barn-cats-in-training’.  They needed another eye exam, and Puff needs another round of minor eye surgery (some tissue grew back where it shouldn’t).  Next to Fluff and Puff…

A month ago we posted a story about Spinner, a blind and deaf dog who recently arrived from a shelter in Spokane, Washington.  At that point we didn’t know why her eyes were completely white.  Now we know. Our vet in Helena, Dr. Brenda Culver, did an exploratory exam with Spinner under anesthesia two weeks…