Living Grace Canine Ranch

Living Grace Canine Ranch LGCR is a 501(c)(3) charity saving, serving, and valuing adoption-disadvantaged TX senior dogs. https://linktr.ee/LivingGraceCanineRanch
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🎒 School Is Back in Session 🎒No pop quizzes. No homework.Just a handful of flying Cheerios and a very willing student na...
01/02/2026

🎒 School Is Back in Session 🎒

No pop quizzes. No homework.
Just a handful of flying Cheerios and a very willing student named Nanner.

While it looks like snack time (and let’s be honest—snacks help 😄), moments like this give us something meaningful to watch in our senior residents:
👀 Visual tracking
🧠 Attention span & focus
🐾 Coordination and balance

Cognition in senior dogs isn’t about testing or pressure—it’s about gentle engagement, curiosity, and joy. A tossed Cheerio becomes an opportunity to check in, celebrate what is, and most importantly… have fun together.

Nanner is still very much enrolled.
And yes—he’s taking this class seriously. 🐾✨



Here, learning never stops. And neither does belonging.

01/02/2026

🐾 Friday Resident Commentary 🐾

Remy and Luna, snuggle circuit legends aged 11–13, have officially declared that aging is a myth—probably invented by puppies. These senior hounds are blazing across the yard with Auggie, their junior sidekick, who can barely keep up.

You’d expect Luna to be in a knee brace and Remy sipping chamomile, not sprinting like they’re headed to the Canine Olympics. Meanwhile, Auggie’s behind them, wondering why the retirees are winning.

Inspiring? Absolutely.

Not every senior companion has this spark—but many rediscover it when given the right veterinary care to manage age-related changes. Turns out, joy has no age limit. 🐶✨

The calendar changed. The commitment did not.A new year does not ask us to become something different.It simply invites ...
01/01/2026

The calendar changed. The commitment did not.

A new year does not ask us to become something different.
It simply invites us to continue—faithfully.

To keep walking beside those who need time, patience, and gentleness.
To offer care that doesn’t rush.
To honor lives that are already home, and journeys that unfold at their own pace.

This is how we begin another chapter at Living Grace Canine Ranch.
Not with resolutions—but with presence.
Not with promises—but with practice.

Step by step.
Life by life.
Love that stays.




You’ve walked this journey with us —through healing, through waiting, through love that learned how to stay.This week wa...
01/01/2026

You’ve walked this journey with us —
through healing, through waiting, through love that learned how to stay.

This week wasn’t about moments.
It was about meaning.

Hope that heals — not loudly, but faithfully.
Health that restores — one life at a time.
Belonging that transforms — because home is a promise kept.

Tonight, as the year turns, we don’t rush ahead.
We carry forward what has already been proven true:

Love changes lives.
Love remains.
Love stays.

Here, love stays. Always.

As this year comes to a close, we pause — not to rush forward,but to look gently at where love has already carried us.Th...
12/31/2025

As this year comes to a close, we pause — not to rush forward,
but to look gently at where love has already carried us.

This past week, you’ve walked beside stories of healing, loyalty, patience, and quiet belonging.
Not the loud kind of rescue.
The faithful kind.

The kind that stays when no one is watching.
The kind that learns each life by heart.
The kind that understands home is not a place — it’s a promise.

Today is not an ending.
It’s a moment of gratitude.

Tonight, we’ll return one final time — to gather these stories together and step forward into the new year with hope, steadiness, and love that remains.

Here, love stays. Always.




When Love Learns to Stand WatchIn December 2022, St. Nick and Noel were found on a rural road.Noel had been struck by a ...
12/31/2025

When Love Learns to Stand Watch

In December 2022, St. Nick and Noel were found on a rural road.

Noel had been struck by a car. Her pelvis was crushed.
She could not move.

St. Nick did not leave her.

He stood beside her in the road — positioning his body to slow passing vehicles, refusing to abandon the one he loved.

When veterinary care was denied for a lack of guaranteed payment, Living Grace stepped in. Together, they came HOME — not as a case to solve, but as a bonded pair whose devotion had already spoken.

Healing followed.
Time followed.
Trust followed.

Today, St. Nick and Noel sit quietly beside children during story hour at the Liberty Hill Public Library — offering presence, patience, and peace. Not because they were trained to do so…
…but because love taught them how to stand watch.

This is what healing becomes when it matures.
Not loud. Not performative.
Just faithful.

Held. Healed. Home.

💝Tomorrow, we’ll gather the stories that taught us how love stays.

When your pillow has a heartbeat.Sometimes comfort isn’t a place.It’s a presence.Pippin Chi and Life Journey Partner, So...
12/30/2025

When your pillow has a heartbeat.

Sometimes comfort isn’t a place.
It’s a presence.

Pippin Chi and Life Journey Partner, Solace 🤍

Healing GrowsSix months ago, Goldie arrived carrying more than what the eye could see.Her body told one story.Her spirit...
12/30/2025

Healing Grows

Six months ago, Goldie arrived carrying more than what the eye could see.

Her body told one story.
Her spirit carried another.
In breeder terms, Goldie was emotionally and physically 'spent.'

Healing didn’t rush her.
It stayed.

Day by day, she learned that gentleness could be trusted.
That rest could last.
That love wasn’t temporary.

She didn’t need to be fixed — only held long enough to remember who she was.
— Rhonda Minardi

Held.
Healed.
Home.

This is how healing grows at Living Grace.
Not loudly. Not quickly.
But faithfully — until fear loosens its grip and peace takes root.

12/29/2025

Trust Begins (Tai Chi)

Tai Chi’s trust journey with Living Grace began four years ago, when he was twelve years old.

Until that moment, his world had been very small — and very full.
One elderly dad. One home. One life.

When his dad passed away, the house was emptied.
Tai Chi was taken to a Dallas shelter, and we brought him home.

He arrived without trust in humans,
without understanding other dogs,
without any sense of what came next.

At four pounds, this little Chihuahua was — in every way that mattered — alone.
For the next three years, Tai Chi chose distance.

He tolerated volunteers nearby,
made his presence known with a bark,
and then retreated to the safety of his cloth house tucked inside our kitchen pantry.

It wasn’t fear that defined him —
it was caution.

And this year, something shifted.

Patient, quiet volunteers noticed his desire to stay.
To linger.
To be near.
And eventually — to choose a lap.

No forcing.
No fixing.
Just time, consistency, and presence.

This is what trust looks like when it finally finds room to breathe.

We’re walking the Life Journey Arc — one moment at a time.
Tonight, we honor the courage it takes to believe that closeness can be safe.

Trust begins.

Hope opens the door.But trust is what allows healing to stay.Trust doesn’t arrive all at once.It forms in small, brave m...
12/28/2025

Hope opens the door.
But trust is what allows healing to stay.

Trust doesn’t arrive all at once.
It forms in small, brave moments —
a meal accepted,
a hand not pulled away,
a choice made freely.

At Living Grace, trust is never rushed.
It’s earned through consistency, patience, and presence —
by showing up again and again,
exactly as promised.

Today, we honor the quiet courage it takes to believe
that safety might last.

This is the next step in the Life Journey Arc.
Trust begins.

This evening, we’ll share a resident moment where trust takes its next breath.

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Living Grace Canine Ranch is a permanent home that provides a dignified, loving sanctuary honoring a canine's final years. We open our arms and shout "come". Come to all breeds that are elderly, unwanted, physically, and mentally fragile. Here, at your ranch, you will find security, comfort, nourishment, unconditional love, companionship, and nearly five acres of instinctual-gratifying discovery. We are building this ranch for you.