Natasha Baydakova In this photo released by Natasha Baydakova on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2011 showing a Welsh corgi dog named Ole that showed up at a Cooke City motel four days after the dog and its owner were swept up in an avalanche. The dog’s owner died. The dog returned to this motel where they had been staying before going backcountry skiing. (AP Photo/Natasha Baydakova)

Corgi finds way home after avalanche

By BRETT FRENCH Billings Gazette | Posted: Friday, January 6, 2012 6:00 am

BILLINGS - Assumed to have died in an avalanche that killed one of his owners on Saturday, an exhausted and hungry Welsh corgi lay down Wednesday by the door of the Cooke City motel room that the family had occupied four days earlier.

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MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian A year after being rescued in failing health from the Montana Large Animal Sanctuary near Niarada, these donkeys have been nursed back to health,

Update 2011: 3 neglected donkeys find refuge in Missoula

By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian | Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 10:30 pm

Editor's note: As 2011 draws to a close, the Missoulian is updating a few of the stories that graced our pages in the past 12 months.

In the Bible, Ruth exemplifies devotion and initiative. An equine version of the story here in Missoula does her justice.

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Sandy Bolinger has been taking care of Buddy since last year. The horse was one about 80 rescued from a defunct large animal sanctuary at Niarada last year.

Woman continues to aid horse rescued from Niarada animal sanctuary last January

By PERRY BACKUS Ravalli Republic | Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:30 pm

STEVENSVILLE - Last January, Sandy Bolinger planned to spend a few hours helping volunteers care for horses rescued from a defunct large animal sanctuary at Niarada.

Perry Backus - Ravalli Republic - Chris Ritchson holds one of the 23 Feral Cat Rescue kittens that will be offered for adoption this Saturday, Dec. 3 at Lakeland Feeds.

Here kitty kitty: Feral Cat Rescue to host kitten adoption event Saturday

By PERRY BACKUS - Ravalli Republic | Posted: Monday, November 28, 2011

Chris and Tami Ritchson would like to have their living room back.

Right now, smack dab in the middle, are cages filled with cute little kittens.

Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake - Sweetiepie, the dark brown and orange tortoise-shell calico cat at the Conrad Mansion, sits on the corner of Mike Kofford’s desk recently in Kalispell. Sweetiepie’s reign as first feline of the Conrad predates the start of Kofford’s employment two years ago.

‘Conrad cat:’ Mansion's resident feline inspires kids' book

KALISPELL - Sweetiepie, a dark brown and orange tortoise-shell calico cat, lives in a mansion in Kalispell with a large staff at her beck and call.

Sounds like a good children's book. That's what Mike Kofford thought.

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