Just a quick post to report that our vet in Helena, Dr. Brenda Culver, called yesterday evening with good news on Pepper.  The growth on her side turned out to be a deep abscess, not a tumor of some sort.  And she is responding well to her IV antibiotic therapy, with her temperature almost normal. …

Jodie called me from Widget’s House shortly after 8 a.m. this morning to say something was wrong with blind Pepper.  Pepper hadn’t eaten breakfast, she wouldn’t get up, and she wouldn’t come out of her crate.  I grabbed a thermometer and headed over.  By the time I got there, Jodie had managed to coax Pepper…

In a post last week, I reported that Bo our blind Appaloosa was experiencing episodes of nystagmus, or rapid eye movement, and sometimes showed some mild incoordination when this happened.  I had taken him to see our equine vet, Dr. Erin Taylor at Blue Mountain Veterinary Hospital, last Monday for an exam.  After getting him…

Alayne took this series of photos this morning of little Daisy climbing into a chair in the living room.  Daisy is one of our Dachshunds with neurological problems … she walks with an odd gait, kind of rocking back and forth on her hindquarters, and she makes a clump-clump-clump sound with her tiny feet as…

On Friday evening, as I was driving back from Missoula after saying goodbye to dear old Dillon, Alayne called me in the truck to say I had just received an email about a blind Beagle named Briggs.  He was on death row in a rural Georgia animal control shelter.  The email, which came from someone…

We lost our oldest boy, Dillon, yesterday afternoon. He hadn’t been able to walk in months, yet his eyes still lit up and he could still catch a tossed dog cookie in the air, even lying down.  He spent his days on a bed in our living room, right outside my office.  That’s where I…

Today is blind Cash’s first birthday — Happy Birthday, Cash!  He’s officially a big, sort-of-grown-up yearling … not a foal any longer.  Cash arrived at the tender age of 4 weeks of age back in March last year from Alabama, a tiny little thing who was as cute as can be.  In the photo above,…

I was in the cat house this morning taking photos of blind Herbie for our monthly email newsletter, and as usual, Herbie was meowing … and meowing … for attention.  Taking his photo wasn’t enough attention.  And although he’s already had his 15 minutes of fame, I couldn’t resist posting these new shots.  What he…

I was coming back from giving Snowball his morning Lasix injection — he’s in the isolation cottage right now — when Gloria saw me and called out, "I’ve got a blog moment for you!"  She was in the cat house, cleaning and feeding the gang there.  Gloria had opened the Rubbermaid tub to dish out…

I drove three of our blind horses to the vet clinic in Missoula today to see Dr. Erin Taylor.  You may recall that a couple of weeks ago, our filly Nikki was suddenly wobbly on her feet.  After a further, more limited relapse last week, we had to to put her back on steroids.  Today…