If it seems like there have been a lot of veterinary blog posts recently … well, it feels like that’s all I’ve been doing these past two weeks, taking animals to one of our vet clinics.  Today I took another full trailer-load to see Dr. Erin Taylor at Blue Mountain Veterinary Hospital in Missoula.  First…

I drove over to our vet clinic in Helena, Montana Veterinary Specialists, this afternoon to pick up three animals we’d never seen before but had agreed to take last week.  In this photo I took at the clinic, vet tech Heather A. on the left is holding a blind cat that the Lewis & Clark…

It’s not just Baron or Blanca who likes to sleep curled up with old uncle Dillon — just about everybody, sooner or later, snoozes alongside him.  Here’s blind Callie, finding a new way to enjoy him … not as a pillow, but more like a bed frame, while his stomach must feel like a built-in…

We just learned that the TV program Animal Rescue this weekend ran a special edition featuring the winners of the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Animal Action Awards.  The program is now online at this link.  The photo above is a screenshot I took this evening of the Web page with the clip featuring the…

Finally, here are photos of the two three-legged cats we picked up at Spokane County’s animal shelter last week.  Alayne took these photos of me with them this afternoon outside our isolation cottage.  For a rash, fleeting moment, I pondered the idea of trying to hold both of them together for the same photo, one…

This morning I drove a full trailer-load — three blind horses and one mule — to our equine vet clinic in Missoula, Blue Mountain Veterinary Hospital.  Two of the horses, Rocky and Shasta, needed surgery to remove painful eyes.  The third blind horse, recent arrival Bo, needed dental work.  And the mule, our lovable old…

Ironically, long before we had agreed to take Trooper from the Shreveport shelter, we had earlier agreed to take a three-legged Rottie named Boudreaux.  He had been turned into the same shelter.  Because Boudreaux was also too big to fly out of Shreveport, we were going to fly him out of Dallas as well, on…

This is Trooper, a very sweet Lab/Hound mix who just arrived last night from a shelter in Shreveport, Louisiana.  One look at his front legs and you can see this is a boy who needs medical attention.  Rebecca Y., who’s with a rescue group called Animal Rescue, Inc., in Shreveport, emailed us on Thanksgiving Day…

Now here’s a trio you don’t hear much about, but they are real fixtures at Widget’s House, our main dog building.  That’s blind Patti on the left and her two boyfriends, blind Levi in the center and blind Cedar on the right.  Both Patti and Levi were blinded by abuse, while Cedar went blind from…

The Love of Dog Bakery in Laurel, Maryland, has graciously named the sanctuary as their ‘Charity of the Month’ for December, and will donate 5% of their sales this month to the ranch.  Check out their delicious dog treats here.  Many thanks to owners Julie and Rob Newman for this generous gift!  They first learned…