Alayne took these photos of Widget cruising through the snow in the front yard yesterday. Despite her ground-hugging clearance, Widget loves being a little snowplow, as we've highlighted before. The other dogs stay close to the house in the area we've shoveled out, but Widget will dive into the snow and be the only one…

I took this photo of Wilbur on Christmas Eve. We looked at him that night, dozing on his pile of fleece blankets on the living room floor, and marveled at how his life had changed since this time last year. It was a few days after Christmas 2011 — in the middle of the week…

Before we take a blog break for the holidays, we're bringing Widget in to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Widget's on her special Christmas blanket that Alayne brings out for the holiday season. It's just one of the many perks Widget is accustomed to enjoying. It's hard to believe…

We mailed our holiday print newsletter to our donors the week after Thanksgiving, and just posted the PDF version online on our website. As you can see, little Wilbur made the cover of this issue. Blind Bugsy will get his star turn in the spring issue next year. If you haven't already made a gift…

Having heard there was quite the kerfuffle about this basket in recent weeks, and a lot of attention on the blog about it, Widget decided she needed to check it out. Alayne caught the inspection on camera a couple of days ago. She sniffed, treaded, pawed at it, and located the corners: And: In the…

Okay, apparently there is something the bigger dogs find very appealing about that wire basket! This is blind and deaf Spinner snoozing in it yesterday evening.  Maybe blind Madison tipped her off to its unique comforts. Who knows? While we were taking these photos, I told Alayne that I bet Spinner would react when the…

We love getting updates on the wonderful animals we've adopted out over the years, and here's a recent photo taken this week of blind Stoney. Wendy M. adopted Stoney and blind-and-deaf Baron from us back in 2008 in one of our amazing double-adoptions. They've since moved to the Washington, D.C. area. Wendy wrote, "Just thought…

It was just a couple of weeks ago that I posted a photo of blind Madison contorting herself to fit inside this wire basket in the dog room. Well, the other day I walked in and found her in an even more awkward position on the same basket — half on, half off, with head…

Oh, the twists and turns in a poor dog's life. I didn't even realize until today, when looking for emails about Willy for background material for this post, that we had declined to take this very same dog back in July!   The original request came in a letter from Marilyn O., who works with…

In light of the Thanksgiving holiday next week, we'll be taking a blog break and will resume posting for Monday, November 26th.