Teddy is finally home again, after a week in the hospital where he managed to baffle all of us with a quick rebound and no apparent explanation for what sent him back to our vets in the first place last Sunday.  Long-time friends of the ranch, Janet and Hal H. from Helena, were kind enough…

Gabe had his MRI this morning at the WSU veterinary teaching hospital, and I took the photo of our oncologist, Dr. Janean Fidel, showing me the images.  His tumor is very large and fills the entire right side of his nasal passage.  Here's a close-up of the image, which is reversed, so you really are…

I'm going to take a blog break for the remainder of this week and will resume posting for Monday the 17th. Hope you have a wonderful week!

On Friday I drove to Helena to pick up blind Teddy at our vet clinic, Montana Veterinary Specialists.  After nearly three weeks in the hospital, he was finally ready to come home.  I took the photo above of Teddy on the cot in our living room Saturday morning.  He's been sleeping a lot, and that…

Yesterday we hosted wildlife expert Jack Hanna, his wife Suzi, and their film crew who were here to do a story on our animals for their TV show 'Into The Wild.'  The local paper, the Missoulian, sent a reporter and photographer out to the ranch to interview the Hannas about their visit with us and…

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, Alayne and I have been hounded (literally and figuratively) for years by dogs insisting on sharing our meals with us.  We have — yes, it is true — aided and abetted this culinary extortion. Each of the dogs has his or her own unique way of pressuring us to…

One of the things I find powerless to resist in life is this face, staring at me intently while I try and enjoy a meal.  It doesn't matter that he has already been fed.  No, sir.  He looks up at me from the floor with his adorable bug-eyes, beseeching me for a morsel from my…

I was in the Widget's House yard this morning scooping poop when the phone rang at 8:30 a.m.  I pulled the phone off my belt and saw it said "MT Vet Specialists."  I wasn't expecting an update on Teddy until late today, so I thought, uh oh, something happened.  I answered, and on the other…

An animal rescue group in Pacific Grove, California, contacted us a week ago today about a senior blind dog they had seen in the Monterey County animal control shelter.  Carie B. from the Animal Friends Rescue Project emailed me to say the dog had been picked up as a stray and that the shelter planned…

Little blind Teddy went into surgery this afternoon and came through the operation just fine.  I took this photo at the clinic a couple of hours afterwards.  I had posted earlier this week that our vets at Montana Veterinary Specialists in Helena had seen bladder stones and a dark shape — thickened material of some…