I got this shot of blind-and-deaf Spinner staring at the wood stove in our living room, looking expectantly at the non-existent fire.  Now, what she’s thinking I can only guess, but she does know where she is and she does know the wood stove is in front of her … because she sleeps every night…

I headed to the Missoula airport last night to meet our newest arrival, a deaf Beagle named Stuart.  He came to us from Fort Myers, Florida, where his family had decided they could no longer care for him.  Stuart also has some neurological issues, and has a pronounced head tilt when walking. He’s a very…

The wonderful folks from Doggon’ Wheels in Bozeman kindly came out to the ranch today to measure three of our dogs for wheelchairs.  All three — brothers Smokey and Charlie, and Noodle the Collie mix — have cerebellar hypoplasia, which affects their balance and fine motor skills.  We have several animals with this condition, and…

It’s tough to keep a girl on a diet when she seeks out every opportunity to steal, harass and intimidate other dogs into giving up their meals to her.  Widget is incorrigible when it comes to food.  I caught her doing one of her sneaky little maneuvers the other evening — "I just happened to…

I went out to feed the horses on New Year’s Eve morning and found our Belgian draft horse, Rooster, lying flat out on his side in the snowy corral.  It was snowing, the wind was howling, and judging from the ice balls in his mane and the snow all over him, he’d been like this…

I posted back in late October about how blind-and-deaf Ellie May, the elderly Cocker Spaniel who had recently arrived, had taken it upon herself to become my minion.  Well, months later, Ellie May has still not left my side … or my desk, where she spends most of her days.  She is a devoted little…

Yes, that’s blind Widget again, looking completely decadent on the morning after.  As usual, we don’t know what went on in her cottage overnight, but she definitely looked a little … shall we say … hung-over.  This clearly isn’t presenting Widget at her finest moment.  I said to her as I was taking the photo,…

As a Christmas gift for the dogs, a wonderful friend and supporter of the sanctuary sent a box of 40 Lambiedoodles — a soft chew toy sheep with a squeaker inside.  That’s one Lambiedoodle for every dog!  We handed them out on Christmas Day, and here are some of the photos we took Christmas night. …

A couple of hours after Dr. Joseph Harari left this afternoon (see previous post), I had just finished putting the horses up in their stalls at Beauty’s Barn when I walked over to see if I could help our new employee, Jodie B., wrap up at Lena’s Barn.  (Jodie and Gloria have both joined us…

Dr. Joseph Harari, our board-certified veterinary surgeon at Veterinary Surgical Specialists in Spokane, came out to the ranch today for a visit with a friend of his.  I took the photo this afternoon of Joe and Alayne with our recent arrival, Trooper.  Joe had examined Trooper last week, the morning after he arrived from a…