A wonderful couple from Missoula, Andrea C. and Seth N., came out this weekend to the ranch and adopted blind Penny!  Andrea first emailed us a week ago to ask about Penny, and after a flurry of follow-up emails, Andrea and Seth decided to come and visit with Penny on Saturday.  They brought along their…

We noticed that Bobby the blind cat didn’t look good this morning.  He had a lot of icky drool hanging off his mouth, and he kept stretching his head way up, then bringing it down and stretching it out again.  The drool didn’t smell bad (yes, we check these things out closely!), which was kind…

Blind Goldie thinks the ultimate gift just arrived:  three big boxes filled with 104 stuffed toys with squeakers!  Joni B. from Austin, Texas, ordered this wonderful gift from PetEdge, a wholesale pet supplier, and had them shipped directly to the ranch.  We knew better than to let Goldie get anywhere near these boxes, so we…

Today was one of those "drop some off and pick some up" trips to the vet clinic.  I took the new arrivals, wobbly sisters Noodle and Wobbles, and blind Joey to our vets in Helena late this morning.  I took the photo of Alayne holding Joey with the two girls in the truck just before…

Our spring 2007 print newsletter is now in the mail.  We took the print copies to the Ovando post office late Wednesday and they went out in the mail on Thursday, so they should begin arriving in mailboxes any day now.  With the nonprofit bulk rate we use, the actual time the newsletter takes to…

These two adorable girls arrived on Friday from the Humane Society of North Central Iowa.  That’s Noodle on the left and her sister Wobbles on the right.  They’re Collie mix pups about 8 months of age.  Alayne took this photo of us late this afternoon.  They have cerebellar hypoplasia, a neurological condition that affects fine…

Now that the snow has finally melted, we’ve started taking some of the horses out to pasture this week.  It’s not so they can graze, since the grass hasn’t come up yet, but for exercise and to get them out of their corrals so we can get in with the tractors to clean out a…

The test results on our blind cat Turtle — bloodwork, ultrasound, and X-rays — so far had shown only one sign of something amiss.  The X-rays revealed some gas-filled loops of bowel, suggesting possible obstruction.  Thus our primary care vet, Dr. Brenda Culver in Helena, did exploratory surgery today.  Sure enough, she found two sections…

This afternoon we posted on our main Web site the sanctuary’s 2006 annual report.  Regular blog readers will probably recognize many of the photos in the 4-page report, since it’s a snapshot of what happened last year.  The financial information is on the final page.  Because the sanctuary runs 100% on donations, our annual report…

Barbara Edwards, the quiltmaker from Seeley Lake, Montana, who is raffling off a beautiful quilt she made to benefit the ranch, asked me to post a reminder that the deadline for raffle ticket sales is this Saturday, March 31.  For more info on how to purchase tickets from Barbara, please see the original post here.