I drove out to Great Falls on Friday to pick up a blind Beagle puppy we flew in from Atlanta.  This little guy, who we named Austin, came to us from the same lady, Morgan S., who sent us blind Widget, blind Willie and blind Briggs.  Morgan was living in New York when she rescued…

Yes, that’s Dr. Dave Bostwick, our small animal internal medicine specialist in Missoula, working on something that is decidedly not a small animal — our blind mare Lena.  Our equine vet, Dr. Erin Taylor, had asked Dave if he would do echocardiograms on two horses today, Lena and a 2-year old colt with a heart…

Stuart the deaf Beagle is really into grooming … not himself, but other dogs.  His specialty is ears, and he offers a free ear wash to any dog willing to sit still for him.  If given a chance, he loves to do a complete head bath, too.  I was working in my office the other…

Our blind cat Bobby has been undergoing treatment for a recurring urinary tract infection, and the week before last he had a relapse — straining and peeing bright red blood again.  He had only been home from the hospital a short while.  After talking with Dr. Jennifer Rockwell, our vet who had been treating Bobby,…

One of our wonderful supporters asked me the other day on the phone how blind Brynn was doing, and that made me realize it’s been a long time since I’ve posted an update on her.  Well, she’s just about to turn two years old in early June, and that will be quite a milestone.  Brynn…

Little Creighton, the blind chocolate Lab puppy who came to us three weeks ago with bulging, painful eyes, is completely healed up from his eye surgery.  Our vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, was unable to save his eyeballs by using the intrasclera implants (like we did with Briggs the blind Beagle).  This is because there was…

I knew last week when I had the studded snow tires taken off the truck and horse trailer that I was only asking for trouble … in the form of a spring blizzard.  Well, it arrived a couple of hours ahead of schedule this afternoon.  I took the photo above looking towards Widget’s House from…

I received an email with the subject line, "Dog with crippled leg."  It came from Deb N., who does rescue work on her own in Browning, Montana, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.  The dog had been picked up as a stray by the local animal control officer. Deb wrote, "She has a crippled front leg,…

I headed to Helena bright and early this morning to take blind Briggs in for a recheck on his eye surgery, drop off blind Evelyn for a skin problem, and pick up three ladies — Duchess, Lady and a new arrival named Sweetie.  (More on them tomorrow!) As you may recall, our vet Brenda Culver…

The AARP just published this week a wonderful "package" of stories about the ranch on their AARP Bulletin Web site.  There is a story by freelance writer Sharon Peters, and then a companion multimedia slideshow by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Mark Osler, who spent 3 days with us back in February.  AARP has also made available…