Alayne and I are just blown away by the outpouring of support for Callie.  Oh my goodness!  As of this afternoon, between donations that have come in online and from checks we've received in the mail already this week, and from commitments we know about for gifts coming next week — we now have enough…

We just received a wonderful email update with these photos from Tia and Karl M., who adopted Bunny our three-legged cat last summer.  They have taken to calling Bunny their "4th dog," for reasons that are clear from the photos. Tia wrote, "Shadow, our 10-year old, was playing in the yard and tore his doggy ACL. …

It was finally warm enough the other day to open the cat house window to let the adventuresome ones wander out into their enclosure.  It was the first time in months they'd had a chance to go outside.  Blind Herbie, as usual, heard the window open and zoomed right out. But then, almost immediately, he…

Our snowpack is finally starting to melt — we call this time of year "The Big Melt."  I took this photo of our drive on Sunday afternoon, and then we woke up Monday morning to three inches of new snow on the ground and a drive that had disappeared.  But the three inches has melted…

I got this shot out the dining room window at breakfast a couple of days ago — that's "our" fox in the process of making her morning rounds. (To be honest, we don't know her gender but for some reason we've decided she's a she.)  Just about dawn, she emerges from somewhere and heads down…

Our internal medicine specialist, Dr. Dave Bostwick, heard back from the oncologist at Washington State University's veterinary teaching hospital on Friday afternoon.  The cost of the radiation treatment for her brain tumor is steep — the oncologist estimated it would be in the $3,800 to $4,200 range — and it would take a total of…

We found out yesterday evening that blind Callie does indeed have a brain tumor.  A large one.  In this vertical view of her head from the CAT scan image, it's the bright glowing thing at the base of her brain at the front end.  (The dark area in the center of her brain is the…

Blind Callie was obviously quite comfortable at the vet clinic this morning after her neurological exam and ultrasound.  Our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, had just put away the ultrasound probe when Callie — who prefers sleeping upside down much of the time as it is — decided she would stay this…

I was sitting in the living room about 8 p.m. last night, working on my laptop, when I suddenly heard a furious scratching noise coming from the couch.  I looked over and saw blind Callie paddling her feet like crazy, her body trembling and quivering.  She had been sleeping soundly just seconds before.  I jumped…

One of the things we love seeing are two animals with totally different disabilities playing and roughhousing with each other as equals.  It just shows us how their innate desire to be happy and enjoy life triumphs over their handicaps.  Because of the mix of disabilities and sizes, we never quite know who's going to…