Our equine vet, Dr. Bill Brown, came out today to examine our blind mare Madison.  The Idaho Humane Society brought Madison to us a couple of months ago.  Shortly before leaving their Boise rescue ranch for the trip to Montana, Madison had been kicked in the jaw by another horse.  The Idaho Humane Society folks…

This morning Alayne hauled a truckload of animals to our vets in Helena at Montana Veterinary Specialists.  In the photo are blind and deaf  Spinner on the left and Allie with cerebellar hypoplasia on the right (look for pink tongue, that’s all you can see!).  Behind them in a crate is deaf Scooter, and in…

One of our fabulous volunteers, Laura W. from Helena, came out today to give us a hand.  The weather was cold and drizzly.  I had the perfect project for a day like this:  setting up the stalls in Beauty’s Barn.  Murdoch’s, a farm and ranch supply outfit in Helena, last week had delivered $5,900 worth…

Popeye was a tiny kitten with deformed front legs who came to us from Spokane Animal Control this spring at the age of 3 weeks.  As time went by, his legs started to straighten out, and his fearless, playful personality blossomed.  In our summer newsletter — seeing what lay ahead — we titled his story,…

Widget, our blind Beagle/Dachshund mix, spends her days developing and then implementing new and innovative sleeping positions in our living room.  She spends her nights in one of our dog cottages, Kelly’s Cottage, but it’s not quite clear to us what she’s actually doing in there.  In the morning, when we let her and the…

We just posted several updates to the sanctuary Web site this evening, including our new arrivals on the Meet the Animals page.  We also posted the online PDF version of our fall newsletter, which will go out in the mail next week.  Look for the newsletter link at the top of the home page.  In…

Charlie, our big lovable Dane/Pointer mix, was adopted today by a nice young couple from Missoula.  Neely V. saw Charlie on our Web site a few days ago and called to see if he was available for adoption.  I hesitated.  At first I didn’t know what to say.  We had NOT adopted Charlie out in…

Well, look at this!  Our first snow of the season, on September 24th.  That’s not unusual for this part of Montana, where our first frosts are often in August.  There was a winter storm warning this weekend for the higher elevations (5000′ and up — we’re at 4,100′), and we woke up to rain at…

We had to put old, blind Frasier to sleep today.  This elderly fellow had come to us just about a year ago from a shelter in Illinois.  We knew he had heartworms when we had agreed to take him.  Only after he arrived did we learn he was also in right-sided heart failure.  And there…

This blind and deaf girl came to us on the same day that Kodiak did, and although we mentioned her briefly in a post that day, you haven’t seen her since.  Well, she’s doing just great.  We named her Spinner because she spins around rapidly in tight circles, head straight up in the air, her…