Since you saw Smokey and Charlie in their new wheels a couple of days ago, I thought you’d like to see what their new quarters look like.  We call it "The Wobblers’ Den," and it’s set up on the front porch of Widget’s House. As cute as these two boys are, there is a problem…

Our ‘morning surprise’ today was finding blind Penny had suffered bouts of bloody diarrhea and vomiting in her crate overnight.  She was in respiratory distress, she was shivering, her body temperature was low, and she didn’t want to walk.  Penny had some diarrhea on Sunday night, and thinking that episode was from a routine intestinal…

When I was busy taking photos at the vet clinic this afternoon, I didn’t notice this moment when our vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, and vet tech Jayme J. had both crossed their arms over blind Helen.  It wasn’t until I uploaded the images onto the computer that I saw this odd pairing of crossed arms,…

Today three of our wobblers — Noodle and brothers Smokey and Charlie — got to try out their new wheelchairs for the first time.  Although we’ve had their wheels for several months, we had to wait for the snow to melt (that took until the end of April) and then the mud to dry up…

Okay, so she’s not as exotic as a blind Shepherd from Afghanistan, but at least she isn’t another blind Beagle from Georgia!  No, she’s a blind Beagle from Washington state. This is Carmel from Gig Harbor, and with her are Shirley L. and James C. from Portland, Oregon, wonderful supporters of the ranch who kindly…

Barbara Edwards, the quiltmaker who each year makes a beautiful quilt to raffle off for the sanctuary, called to say that our blog readers had already bought all the raffle tickets she had planned to sell for this year’s quilt!  She was just amazed at the response she’s received in the mail so far.  Because…

Yes, you read that right.  Afghanistan.  We were contacted back in March by the Afghan Stray Animal League, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that works to help homeless animals in Kabul, Afghanistan, by supporting a small shelter there.  The shelter had taken in a blind Shepherd puppy, an animal that stood no chance of adoption.  They…

You may recall that when our mare Lilah poked her right eye out last week, we had noticed some changes in her left eye but weren’t sure what they were.  Our equine vet Dr. Erin Taylor — who was attending an equine ophthalmology course last week in Florida when Lilah injured herself — came out…

I thought you’d like to know that our beloved old mule, Roy, is doing much better after losing his buddy, blind Scout.  We have continued to let him wander the ranch at will, which suits him just fine.  People who have come to the ranch in the past week are often startled to see this…

Barbara Edwards, a quiltmaker from Seeley Lake, Montana, has graciously offered to make another gorgeous quilt for us and raffle it off, with 100% of the proceeds going to the animals at the ranch.  This will be the third quilt raffle Barbara has done for the sanctuary, and this year’s quilt is just stunning.  Barbara…