We never know how the day is going to go when we get up every morning, because we never know what we’re going to find.  That’s what happens when you’re caring for more than 80 animals.  Today’s ‘morning surprise’ was finding that our mare Lilah had punctured her right eye overnight.  This wasn’t your typical…

I was taking photos for our summer print newsletter yesterday, and one of the animals who will be featured in this next issue is three-legged Honey Girl. She came to us last December from the Spokane County animal control shelter.  She is a complete ham and a show-off, and she will do anything to get…

Judging from the number of emails and blog comments we’ve had, it appears I have been rather delinquent in posting an update on the blind Poodle sisters!  They are doing great, and have joined the other disabled dogs over at Widget’s House, our main dog building.  I took the photo above of Alayne with Priscilla…

Thank you to everyone who has posted or emailed us such wonderful sentiments about Roy and Scout.  We really appreciate it!  I wanted to let you know that Roy is doing better.  Last night, about 8 p.m., Alayne and I looked out the living room window and were startled to see Roy had made his…

I wasn’t going to write about this.  Especially for a start-of-the-week blog post.  We’ve had too many losses this year, and I know quite a few of our regular readers were getting emotional fatigue in recent months from logging on to the blog and having to reach for the Kleenex box too many times. But…

From the moment he arrived at the ranch a few months ago from Georgia, blind Briggs fancied himself as a ladies’ man.  Nothing gets him more worked up than the nearby presence of a new female dog … and yes, he’s been neutered!  The only thing that comes close to generating that level of excitement…

When I took blind Austin the Beagle to our vet clinic in Helena yesterday, I also brought along blind Lady, the old girl who came to us about a month ago from Missoula Animal Control.  A week after she arrived, our vets did an echocardiogram and found that Lady had a serious heart problem —…

I took our recent arrival from Atlanta, the blind Beagle puppy Austin, to see our vet Dr. Brenda Culver in Helena this morning.  Austin needed the usual "oil, lube and filter" work — neutering, blood panel, and urinalysis — but the first order of business on any of our blind arrivals is a thorough eye…

It’s a rare evening when Alayne and I can spend an hour watching something on TV, but last night after dinner we had a moment to watch a History Channel program on the aftermath of the American Civil War.  Blind Widget loves it when this happens, because it gives her an equally rare opportunity to…

This is blind-and-deaf Spinner on our front step this afternoon.  She was waiting not only for me to open the door for her, but to give her "the touch," as I call it.  Somewhere along the way she decided that she would not go through an open door until I had given her permission, and…