The Idaho Humane Society in Boise brought out to us today a blind mare named Radar.  She had been impounded several months ago in a cruelty case invoving dozens of horses.  When animal control officers found her, she was mired in manure up to her belly.  They basically had to dig her out of the…

This didn’t take long.  The little Papillon mix who came from Spokane Animal Control last Tuesday … the dog whose owners dumped her and wrote on her card, "brain damage" … was adopted today!  Mary S. from Phillipsburg, Montana, had seen our original post on this dog and e-mailed to say she’d be interested in…

One of our veterinary specialists in Spokane today examined the tiny dog with ‘brain damage.’  (See the original post below.)  A volunteer, Lee T., had picked up the little thing yesterday from the Spokane  Animal Control shelter, fostered it overnight, and then took it to the vet appointment this morning.  The specialist could find no…

We’re suddenly having banner "issues" with the blog tonight.  Our sanctuary logo is blowing out the margins of the banner one minute, the next it’s too small and off-centered.  We tried re-posting it, then re-sizing and re-posting it, but nothing seems to work.  Oddly, it is still fine on the About page.  We finally submitted…

This is one of our weekends when we’re closed for visits, which gives us time to do the basic ranch chores that just have to get done. In between other chores today, we picked up the first of 100 tons of grass hay we’re buying from our next-door neighbors.  For the past couple of years…