Today was a big day for Pappy.  Our beloved old Shepherd has spent the past few weeks recovering from pneumonia and then a brush with death from meningitis.  He has been gradually gaining strength and mobility.  This morning as I was grabbing my gloves and hat to head out the door to start barn chores,…

Volunteers from the Spokane Animal Control shelter contacted us over the weekend about a tiny Papillon mix whose family dumped her there last week.  They dropped her off on a day the shelter was closed, so no one was around.  On a card all they wrote was ‘brain damage.’  They left no other information ……

Pappy, our old German Shepherd who survived both pneumonia and meningitis earlier this month, continues on the road to recovery.  He’s had no relapses since coming home July 15.  His temperature had remained normal and his appetite is great.  He is clearly glad to be home.  (See the post about his  homecoming here.) Although still…

Scooter and Sugar, the two disabled dogs we agreed to take from the Hayward (CA) animal control shelter, arrived at the ranch last night.  Their trip to Montana was made possible only because of incredible volunteers.  Garrett and Delores, volunteers from the Hayward shelter, drove the dogs all the way from the Bay Area to…

We agreed today to take two disabled dogs from the Hayward, California animal control shelter.  One is a deaf female hound mix named Delight.  She’s young, about 8 months.  The other is a blind Springer Spaniel … she was dumped in their holding pen overnight, so she doesn’t even have a name.  The shelter believes…

Our old German Shepherd, Pappy, is well on his way to recovering after 10 days in the vet hospital in Helena.  I had taken him in one morning after finding him listless, with no appetite, and a high fever (105.7).  Turns out he had pneumonia.  Last Sunday, July 10th, our vets had called and said…

Allie is a four-month old Lab/Retriever puppy with a neurological condition called cerebellar hypoplasia. The part of her brain that controls motor skills and balance — the cerebellum — didn’t fully develop because her momma probably had distemper when she was pregnant with Allie. So Allie can’t walk in a straight line and is quite…