America's Favorite Animal Shelter Contest

If Cherri Shinaberger says it's great? Then it's GREAT!!!!

Alayne and Steve are wonderful, caring people who have devoted their lives to helping disabled animals.

RDR takes care of disabled animals and provides them an extended, quality life that they otherwise wouldn't have had. Through their detailed, skillfully written blog, they educated all animal lovers in how a disabled pet can live a quality life.

I love RDR because they are helping animals that would probably not be adopted because of their special needs. It's a lot of hard work for Steve and Alayne but the love and appreciation they receive from each animal makes their efforts well worth while.

I have been volunteering at the Rolling Dog Ranch for the last four years. I love every minute of it. I get to see first hand how happy and adjusted all the animals are!! They are just a fun loving bunch...Steve and Alayne too!!

Read for yourself (time well spent): http://www.rollingdogranch.org/about/index.html

Rolling Dog Ranch provides a wonderful, safe, and loving environment for disabled unadoptable animals. Steve and Alayne work incredibly hard yet they have the time to let all of us share in the heart warming and heart breaking lives of all. This is one place where we can see our donations in action every day. Wish we could give more.

I love that they take such good care of all the special needs animals.

I love them because they have committed their lives to take in animals who may otherwise be put to sleep. They realize that even with their disabilities they can have quality of life. Steven and Alayne have inspired my family and I to take in several special needs animals who's future looked very uncertain. I am happy to say they have thrived and I truly believe they thank us everyday. Thank you Alayne and Steve.

Steve and Alayne are so caring. They give animals a second chance at life that would be otherwise destroyed! They have dedicated their lives to these animals.

love what they do and how they do it.

Their committment to providing the best possible life to animals that so many others would have written off as hopeless or useless has been such an inspiration to me. I actually see the world in a different way because of the wonderful work they do. Thank you Rolling Dog Ranch!

They care for the animals no one else wants to care for, and give those animals comfortable, joyful lives. They are dedicated and caring and really admirable for the wonderful work they do.

They take in and care for the animals that are usually disregarded - disabled ones!

Rolling Dog Ranch takes in "hopeless" cases and turns the lives around of "throwaway" animals, ones that are blind, deaf, missing limbs, etc. Even with 70-80 animals, Steve and Alayne know each individual personality, medical needs, and special scratching spots, and tailor their care accordingly. Five minutes after walking into the shelter, you realize these dozens of animals are happy, well cared for, and deeply loved. Dogs romp with each other, tails wagging, or snooze peacefully; horses graze side by side sharing occasional nuzzles with their pasture buddy. Disabilities don't keep them from living full lives at RDR.

They are always so willing to help the animals most in need that no one else would help. They take them in and make them feel loved like never before.

Rolling Dog is a beautiful, unique place for disabled horses, cats and dogs that provides love, care, warmth and companionship to those who are sadly considered disposable to much of society. I'm proud to support this facility whenever possible in any way possible.

They do what few will. They are truly selfless.

An amazing couple doing amazing work with some amazing animals!!

Rolling Dog Ranch Animal Sanctuary gives disabled animals a second chance to live a life filled with love and care.

Steve and Alayne's love and care of disabled animals are absolutely wonderful to read about on their blog and I really admire the work that they are doing!

Such a unique mission; such a wonderful story!

The Rolling Dog Ranch takes animals that most shelters can't keep due to their "horrible disabilities", or blindness when it comes to a horse. Steve & Alayne give all the dogs, cats & horses in their care unconditional love & the very best in vet care. Recently one dog got his sight restored! Another got his tumor removed from his muzzel, so now he can smell, although he is still blind and deaf. All the animals there are so happy because they are getting the best care on earth!

Steve and Alayne at Rolling Dog Ranch love and care for the "disposable" animals: those who are disabled in some way. These two people recognize that inside, every animal is perfect love.

Amazing people caring for amazing animals!

I love to visit the Rolling Dog Ranch blog every day for Steve and Alayne's heartwarming stories and pictures of the disabled animals on the ranch. They can make me laugh or cry or nod my head in agreement, but it always makes me happy to read about the second chances given to these wonderful animals.

Because of Steve and Alayne's total commitment caring for animals others don't want.

After reading about the RDR in a 'People' magazine, on my next vacation I traveled 2,500 miles to see this place for myself. I was and still am in awe of what Steve and Alayne do out there on their Montana ranch. I actually envy them for being strong enough to do what they do, and wish that I was. The RDR blog makes me laugh and cry, often in the same post; once you learn about each animal it becomes important to know what is going on in their lives, both the ups and the downs. Steve & Alayne are VERY dedicated animal lovers.

This place is the best!

They are simply THE BEST!! They not only give a home full of hope and love to all those lucky enough to live at the Ranch, but also to all of us who follow their blog every day. True Angels on Earth.

The work they do at Rolling Dog Ranch is inspirational! The love that they have for all these animals is simply amazing!!

I have visited Rolling Dog and have seen the wonderful work that they do!!

RDR takes in nothing but disabled animals that would die if they were not rescued from shelters because nobody wants a physically disabled, blind, deaf, etc. animal. They are given a forever home, the best medical care that money can buy, and all the love they can soak up. It is Paradise for the lucky animals that get to call RDR their home. They were once animals at the very bottom of the save list who now all get another chance to have the care they were denied, to be happy and without pain, and loved no matter what.

EVERYTHING!!!! This is the most wonderful animal shelter in the U.S.! Steve Smith and Alayne Marker are the most caring, loving and compassionate people to each of these disabled animals. Each and every animal is given such fantastic care -- their vet. bills are enormous, but each animal is very worth it! As another voter noted -- "these animals reach their full potential and show ALL OF US that the disabilities they may have, are in our eyes -- and not in theirs"! The Rolling Dog Ranch is such a caring place for these precious animals to live out the rest of their lives with love and comfort!

They take in the unwanted, disabled animals who are otherwise unadoptible.

Takes in disabled animals that would normally be put down and gives them a great life.

What Steve and Alayne do is truly a miracle. These animals have no hope left when they come to Rolling Dog Ranch, and they are given a safe home, proper medical care, and most importantly, LOVE! The animals reach their true potential, and show us all that their disabilities are in our eyes, not theirs.

The true compassion and love poured out on the animals....they are truly blessed!

Steve Smith and Alayne Marker provide so much love and care for disabled animals that might otherwise not get a chance

Because they give animals that have had unhappy lives a chance at happy lives.

The shelter is home to disabled dogs, cats and horses. Please visit their site and blog at rollingdogranch.org

They take the animals that no one else would help, the blind, deaf, crippled, old - the ones that would be put to death and give them a loving healthy home.

Because they care, they love and they are there.

Everything I have read about this sanctuary seems to show that it provides a beatiful setting for disabled animals to be truly cared for and allowed to live out their lives in as full and happy a manner as "normal" animals. Steve and Alayne must be extremely generous and caring people to devote their lives to undertaking this very challenging task.

They provide not only medical care for animals but love and attention that they deserve.

The hadnicapped animals that Steve and Alayne have taken in are cared for and loved in the most amazing environment. Their every need is met with unconditional joy and love for the rest of their lives. These were the aninals that no one wanted. Now they have a home forever.

Disabled animals get to live their little lives to the fullest in a peaceful country setting filled with love, companionship and happiness.

Steve and Alayne are wonderful caring people who take on blind animals that would probably otherwise not have a future.

These folks not only have their hearts in the right place, they work their tails off dawn to dusk. They do physical labour, but they also use their corporate (former lives) skills to raise funds to enable excellent vet care and keep the Ranch afloat. I am so proud of them!

I love what they do with the animals that are unadoptable - they give them a new lease on life.

Steve and Alayne do wonderful work providing love, medical care and a home for handicapped animals, all the ones that others would consider unadoptable. Their work should be an example to everyone.

Alayne and Steve give special care and love to those animals others would throw out.