I took these photos of Bailey at mid-day today in his favorite shady spot.  The thermometer on the back porch in the shade said it was 102; our LaCrosse Technology wireless weather station was reading 106 in the sun.  No matter how you slice it, it was blazing hot out there.  Yet Bailey can’t get…

Alayne left for Kansas today to visit her parents for a week.  This might be the end of the world as far as old, deaf Oscar is concerned.  He is Alayne’s ultimate minion — a minion’s minion, I might even say — who worships the ground she walks on and literally follows her everywhere.  He…

The Great Falls Tribune had a terrific story on the ranch in the paper yesterday.  They carried a "teaser" photo and lead on the front page that said "The Rolling Dog Ranch:  Ovando ranch provides rehab and love for disabled animals."  The story ran on the cover of the life section, and this is what…

Alayne took this photo of Brynn and me right after we arrived back at the ranch this evening.  I didn’t have my camera with me this morning when Brynn was discharged from the veterinary teaching hospital at WSU, but we had both surgeons, the senior vet tech, and the 4th-year vet student on hand to…

I got this shot yesterday of old, blind Scout having a great roll in the pasture behind Beauty’s Barn.  Scout has Cushing’s disease (for which he gets his apple-flavored pergolide medication every day), has more gums than teeth, and needs lots of equine senior grain to maintain his weight.  Going out to pasture is more…

Alayne went out the back door the other day and heard blind Nevada and wobbly Noodle barking at each other, but she couldn’t see Noodle anywhere.  Then she realized the sound was coming from underneath the dog cot.  Sure enough, there was Noodle underneath it, just as happy as she could be in her little…

We had a fantastic number of suggestions for a name for our little  blind-and-deaf boy who arrived a week ago — thank you to everybody who participated!  There were many great ideas, and some were very clever, too.  Of all the possible names folks submitted … and this was harder than I thought it would…

I took this photo of blind Luna this afternoon, right after we brought her in from pasture with her friend blind Hannah.  It was blistering hot here today — it’s still 95 degrees in the shade on the back porch as I post this at 7 p.m. — and although there’s a water tank in…

I realized it had been a long time since I had posted an update on Claude, our blind Great Dane who developed Wobbler’s Syndrome at 10 months of age … and hip dysplasia as well.  I won’t rehash all the details of his complicated medical issues, because you can read his original story here.  But…

On Sunday morning we were loading the trash in the truck to take to the dump (no garbage service out here) when Alayne saw little Daisy staring over the board at us.  We had opened the 12′ gate to make it easier to carry the trash bags and other things out to the truck, and…