I walked into the kitchen the other evening and looked over to see blind Widget doing "the Loom," as we call it.  This is where she stands and stares at another dog who is occupying a chair or bed she wants.  In this case, she’s focused on deaf Stuart.  She will stand there for what…

Blind Mitch, who came to us recently from a rescue group in Indiana, is back at the ranch from the vet hospital, still not neutered and with doctor’s orders for very restricted activity.  That’s because the routine testing we do on new arrivals found that he has a bad case of heartworms.  Our internal medicine…

Here are Molly and Priscilla, two blind Poodle sisters who arrived today from Fort Worth, Texas.  These two girls are so incredibly sweet.  They came to us in a round-about way from the same folks who sent us Creighton the blind Lab puppy. While we were working out Creighton’s trip to Montana, Debbie L., who…

Beagles can be very intense about two major things in life:  sleeping and eating.  (Fortunately our Beagles are spayed and neutered, so we don’t have to worry about the third major thing in life.)  I got this photo above of deaf Stuart sacked out in a chair in our living room.  There’s something truly debauched…

We have another happy adoption to report!  Our wonderful, long-time volunteer Laura W. from Helena has adopted blind Levi.  This sweet boy is a cross between a black Lab and something large with a big fluffy, curly tail (Akita?  Husky?).  You can read his original story here. Because he was beaten blind — his eyes…

We have tried to figure this out, but we’re just not sure why Bailey the Dachshund with the bad back loves to bury his head — and only his head — under something.  Whether it’s Mr. Orangutan the stuffed toy as above, or a comfy fleece blanket as below, Bailey likes to keep his head…

When Jayme J., a vet tech at our clinic in Helena who also comes out to groom our dogs, mentioned a week ago that her Mom was interested in adopting Tyler, my first reaction was, "Awesome!"  Her Mom, Karen M., had been coming out to volunteer her time helping Jayme groom, so we had gotten…

She was my girl, my first dog, my special one.  Dolly died in the early hours on Saturday morning.  She was 13 years old.  You can read her story that I posted on the blog last summer here. Over the past couple of weeks Dolly started getting finicky about eating … some meals she would…

The Old Ladies Club at the Rolling Dog Ranch just added a new member, and her name is … Lady!  Ed Franceschina, director of Missoula Animal Control, emailed us on Tuesday and asked if we could take an old, blind Cocker Spaniel mix they had picked up as a stray.  They estimated she was about…

Since I had to take Snowball into the vet clinic yesterday, I decided to take little Creighton with me so our vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, could look at his eyes.  I had planned to take him to see Brenda on Thursday, but she was kind enough to fit us in between her other appointments.  Having…