Last August we were delighted to host a photographer from Best Friends, the nation's largest animal sanctuary, who was here for three days to photograph our wonderful animals.  The photographer, Sarah Ause, was doing a story about the ranch for an upcoming edition of Best Friends' magazine.  Sarah emailed me yesterday evening to say the…

If you think I can't see where I'm going in this shot, you're absolutely right.  With that wall of hay in front of me, I only have a general idea of where I'm steering the tractor, but it's much more efficient to move a lot of hay in each trip that smaller loads in more…

We just posted Jack Hanna's Into The Wild TV show about the ranch on our Web site's home page.  It's a wonderful piece, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it.  Like a lot of people, we weren't able to watch it live on TV when it first aired in November because of the somewhat erratic programming…

Good news!  Ella had her surgery today at the Shreveport vet hospital and came through the operation in good shape.  The vet who performed the amputation, Dr. Keith Ratcliff, called me just before he took Ella into surgery for a pre-op update, and then one of his vet techs called me after the operation to…

I'm heading into Missoula today to pick up a disabled dog we're flying in this evening from a shelter in Shreveport, Louisiana, so I won't have a new post until sometime Wednesday.  The dog is a small Shepherd mix, his name is Timmy and he has a crippled front leg.  We have actually just committed…

It turns out that blind Dusty isn't the only dog who likes to eat snow first thing in the morning.  Alayne noticed that wobbly blind Briggs likes to do the same thing when there's fresh snow on the ground.  She'll let him out of the cottage in the morning and he'll wobble off to go…

Our first-thing-in-the-morning chore every day is scooping the poop in the dog yards after we let the bossy little dears out to do their business.  We used to put the, um, "material" in trash cans and then haul it once a week to the compost yard in the Kubota utility vehicle.  With the snow and…

It was 0° (-18° C) this morning when I let the dogs out of Widget's House, and I took this photo shortly thereafter.  The sun was finally coming up over the ridge to the east of us and beginning to light up Ovando Mountain behind us.  At this point, we're all just waiting for the…

While we're still kinda sorta in the Christmas spirit of things, I thought I'd share a photo that one of our awesome volunteers, Laura B. of Helena, emailed me over the holidays.  This is Rudy, a little wobbler who came to us way back in 2006 from a Utah rescue group.  Rudy was here for…

I'm going to take a "blog break" over the holidays and will resume posting the first week of January. Before I go, here's a link to a story in the Missoulian today about the ranch winning the Shelter Challenge.  It was written by a reporter at the Helena Independent Record, but for some reason isn't…