I got these photos the other evening as the last of the day's light was fading.  That's wobbly Mink catching the final rays in the cats' outdoor enclosure.  Like all the animals here, the cats are relishing the long days and warm temperatures.  As soon as we open the window to the enclosure in the…

I know it looks like maybe I put one of those nasal strips on blind Lena because the other horses were complaining she snores at night, but that actually isn't what happened.  No, Lena had to mark the first official day of grazing season by going face-first into a fence wire out on pasture and…

In some years we have turned the horses out for grazing on Memorial Day weekend if the grass was doing well, but our "official" start to the grazing season has been June 1 … and this year, we waited until today to start turning them all out.  I took the photo of blind Bridger grazing…

I got this shot of blind Evelyn yesterday on a warm Saturday afternoon, enjoying a shady spot.  In the past year Evelyn has lost most of her hearing, though she can still hear certain sounds — like the click-click-click of the shutter.  She didn't know what it was but she could hear "something" out there,…

While we're on the subject of dogs enjoying the new warmth of spring, here are some photos Alayne got the other day of blind Briggs rolling … and rolling … and rolling … in the yard outside our house.  This is the latest installment in our series on, um, rolling dogs.  And they just love…

We know summer is coming when we see Bailey starting to spend much of the day underneath his favorite shade tree, the aspen next to our house.  The other morning when I took the photo above, it was probably only about 9 a.m. and he was already outside.  His only complaint is that the leaves…

This past Saturday, we were delighted to have Dan and Cheryl W. from Whitefish, Montana, adopt our deaf boy, Stuart the Beagle.  Dan and Cheryl had recently lost their elderly blind and deaf Beagle, Penny, and were looking for another special dog.  It turns out that just about the same time they contacted us initially…

Last Thursday I took blind Callie in to see our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, for her two-week check-up after her radiation therapy.  She continues to circle with a head tilt from the ear infection she developed at the WSU veterinary teaching hospital, though she is definitely improving.  Dave found no signs…

While I was in Missoula running errands today, Alayne was busy with our farrier, Rich Boyle, who had come out to trim the horses' hooves.  One of our blind horses, Rosie, has always had very thin soles on her feet, which can make her ouchy.  The first time we saw her like this, a few…

I apologize for the quality of these photos, but I shot them through the storm door at Widget's House the other evening — and there are a lot of noses that get pressed up against the glass every day!  Our blind Poodle sisters, Priscilla on the left and Molly on the right, were wrestling like…