#Flashback Photo ~ August 2016 ~ Buddy, the Christmas Husky   Photo of Buddy taken by Lisa Byrd; Courtesy of "Mama Shay" Baillargeon    T here are those special times and people in life you always remember. This #FlashbackFriday memory from nine years ago was one of those special times for me as a dog lover, husky hu-mom of five, and as an author. It's about an extra special dog...a Siberian Husky who we all came to know as "Buddy, the Christmas Husky,"   and the good friends we made because of him.    Buddy was named "The Christmas Husky" because it was on Christmas Day 2011 the life of this sick, starving, injured, and abandoned almost unrecognizable Husky. He wore his pain and illness on his frail, mange-filled body, but was still passed by many cars as he tried to make his way through the snow. It took a Good Samaritan named Geneva to walk out and save him from a deadly fate. She welcomed him into her warm home on Christmas Day, and the rest truly ...

FiveSibes #Flashback ~ 2020 ~ Wolfie & Bandit "Life is a bubble in the ocean of time."     ~Dr. Debasish Mridha   W hen we sold our home of over 30 years and relocated out of the area in 2020, we had just two of our five beloved Huskies left-- pupsters "Wolfie" and sister "Bandit" (a/k/a "Bee"). At first I was concerned how they were going to adjust to a new place after having our Husky-proofed, fenced-in fabulous yard that was designed by my husband just for our FiveSibes, which included two yards (one for free roaming and digging) and the other for running and having zoomies to their hearts content; a giant roof covered deck, complete with two pools, for them sit up and watch the world beneath them.  Our new place did not yet have a fence, nor a deck....but they adjusted so well! I did have to go back to having them on a leash as opposed to them being used to running free in our enclosed yard of the previous house. For exercise, I opted fo...