The Rolling Dog Ranch Animal Sanctuary in Montana rescues and shelters disabled animals. Every animal who arrives at the sanctuary gets another chance to have a safe and loving home. Our residents include blind dogs, blind horses, deaf dogs, blind cats, and others with medical issues like muscular dystrophy.

Although these animals may have disabilities, they do not consider themselves handicapped. They just want to get on with life and enjoy themselves. Thanks to the support of the sanctuary’s friends, that’s what they get to do here.

Below are excerpts from a story and video from their blog about rescuing a blind puppy.

We had a little blind puppy arrive at the end of last week from the animal control shelter in Elko, Nevada. She was born with no eyes in her head. A young man found her by the side of the road and, thinking someone had injured her, took her to a vet clinic. After the vet found the puppy was blind from birth, not from abuse of some sort, the young man then took her to the shelter.

The shelter staff fell in love with this adorable little girl, but couldn’t find anyone willing to adopt her. A wonderful lady in California, Dara O., volunteers long-distance for this animal control shelter, trying to find options for animals who are at risk of euthanasia. Dara contacted us last Monday about the puppy. In her email she wrote:

I have contacted several other rescue organizations and unfortunately none of them were able to help her and her time is running out.

I called Dara to say we could take the little girl. Now, normally when we agree to take an animal from an out-of-state shelter, we have to arrange the travel. Not this time. Dara handled the entire enterprise, made the reservations, paid for the airfare, and got everything squared away. All I had to do was say “yes,” and that was it. (I could get used to this!) On Thursday, the shelter staff took the puppy to the tiny airport in Elko to catch a puddle-jumper flight to Salt Lake City, and from there she caught the connecting flight to Missoula. Alayne picked her up at the airport at 4:30 that afternoon.

Back at the ranch late Thursday, we let this blind puppy out of her crate … and immediately all she wanted to do was romp and play with me. She kept jumping up on me, running little circles around my feet, then whirl around and roll over, get up, and do it all over again.