Gibson and the Lawn Huskies have the sleigh all ready! You are invited to join our  "Christmas Canines & Friends  Sleigh Ride!" Our holiday invitation to our furpals! Jing-jing-jingling...   "It's lovely weather...for a sleigh ride together...with you!"   The FiveSibes would like to invite their blog pals to send us your pet's seasonal photos with them either decked out in their holiday finest, playing in the snow, trimming  the Christmas tree, helping bake (or eat) Christmas cookies, etc. Photos will be included in a video slideshow posted here, on our Facebook page , and YouTube on Christmas Day!  Deadline for photo submissions is  midnight on December 18th!  You can Email photos to FiveSibes(at)gmail(dot)com or post them to our FiveSibes: Siberian Husky K9 News & Reviews Facebook page . Please indicate "Sleigh Ride" in the subject line, and include your pets' names and your town and country! We sure hope to see all species...

Bandit is ready! We've been having a bit of a heatwave here in the Northeast, with a week of low- to mid-60s! Pretty unseasonably warm for almost December. While many folks are enjoying the extra long warm spell,  my Huskies are back to wondering what the heck happened to the cooler weather and that wonderful October snow we had! So naturally in the warmer temps, they kick back and laze around on the deck and try to keep cool, especially since their winter coats were starting to come in! Taste testing. So what's a Siberian Husky to do to keep cool? Run fans. Check . Dig a deep hole in the dirt. Check . Snack on cool Freezy Pups®. Check. Now if you haven't had the chance to try these out, I have to tell you, please do! The FiveSibes™ love them! They can't get one fast enough! What are Freezy Pups ® you ask? Well, they are frozen treats for dogs that you whip up yourself simply by adding water to the packaged all-organic powder mix and pouring them into a tray...

Book Front Cover  Woooo! It's a very exciting time for the FiveSibes™ and I as we are releasing our very first illustrated children's book titled, What's Wrong With Gibson? This is the first book in a series of FiveSibes™ Tales written by me, the FiveSibesMom, and illustrated by the very talented artist Michelle Littler! Working with Michelle has been such a great experience! I look forward to working with her on the future editions of A FiveSibes™ Tale books! Her work is beautiful and she "gets" my Sibes and what message I'm trying to relay via her artwork. I am so pleased to have met her and thank Road Dog Tales for originally introducing us! Check out Michelle's Etsy store, too, at littletoad .  As many of you know, I am an author, journalist, editor, and photographer by trade; with the last 14 years spent in the educational field. For five years, I was an editor of an elementary school newspaper I started in my daughter's school whe...

Sweet contentment after a day of visitors, turkey, sweet potatoes, hugs, pets, and kisses.

The FiveSibes™are ready for dinner! Happy Thanksgiving to all our furpals and their families! There is so much to be thankful for...first and above all else, good health for all our family members both two- and four-legged. And as we all gather around today, may we take a moment to send wishes to those less fortunate - and remember there are homeless pets who would love to come spend even one day with a family to share in a touch, a treat, or a hug. So please, consider fostering a pet for the holidays, or stopping by your nearest animal shelter or rescue and spread a little holiday cheer with a furpal who hasn't yet found his or her forever home.  Our day began with the pupsters catching some of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Wolf was busy wooing about how last year he watched it and did not see any Husky floats, and was hoping he'd see one this year. Bandit was happy watching all the singing and dancing. Wolf was laughing because he thought the people ...

Chloe's always ready to eat! Can you smell that???!!! It's the aroma of turkey, and stuffing, and pumpkin pie! Thanksgiving is almost here and today is "Tasty Tuesday" by Kol's Notes and Sugar, the Golden Retriever , AND it's also the second installment of the Two Little Cavalier's Regressive Dinner Pet Event blog hop, which this time covers the scrumptious "Main Course" category! Woooo...today is a double-dose of yumminess; I'm getting hungry just thinking about it all! For our dish, we'd like to share yet another recipe from our Canine Cooking Corner recipe video series, called "Turkey Mish-Mash" and the FiveSibes™ were on hand to do a little quality control and some taste testing along the way! With Thanksgiving being this Thursday, this recipe is perfect as it uses roasted turkey (or chicken) and pumpkin puree, and it's already been 100% Sibe tested and approved! So save some of those leftover from Turkey Day and...

Gibson - diagnosed with Canine Epilepsy in 2009 N ovember is national Epilepsy Awareness Month and a good time as any to talk about a cause very close to my heart - Canine Epilepsy. As many of you know, my five-year-old wooly Siberian Husky boy, Gibson, is an "Epi-dog" who was diagnosed in 2009 after being hospitalized for a cluster of Grand Mal seizures. I shudder when thinking back to those earlier days. It was a very scary time for me. Last November, I chose to share my personal journal notes with readers in a blog entry titled One Husky's Journey with Epilepsy to Highlight November's Epilepsy Awareness Month as I traveled with my boy through some new and very rough waters called Canine Epilepsy. If you are interested in reading those entries, which are raw and in-the-moment writings, please feel free.  I t still brings tears to my eye recalling that very first seizure episode he had in January of 2009. As you will read, I had discovered him motionless post-se...

Here it is Friday - and almost time to kick-start the weekend! Our Bandit girl has been very busy working hard keeping an eye on things in the office, making sure everything is in order... ...like keeping a watchful eye on the postman, the cats, and the squirrels in the yard...  ...and checking on her brown stuffie dog...  Bandit's been a busy working class dog!  Yawn. Time for a Sibe snooze!  Happy Friday! Here's to a great weekend! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For some holiday season fun, stop over to Finn's blog or HoundDogsMom's blog to sign up for the fun 2011 Blogville Christmas Card Exchange! Wooo, the holidays are coming fast! Now, we just need that snow...Santa, are you listening???!!!

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Kelly the dog inspires Hu-Mom to diet, get healthy, and write a book about it all! Hot off the presses, our Chloe girl snatched the copy of Peggy Frezon's (of Peggy's Pet Place blog ) Dieting with my Dog : One Busy Life; Two Full Figures and Unconditional Love when it arrived from Amazon.com . Now, sometimes I tease sweet Chloe and call her "chunky monkey" because she is always hungry...so when she snagged the book right between her teeth and headed for the sofa, I wondered if I had hurt her feelings.  Now, honestly, Chloe is not chunky, she is rather fit. But I do worry about her with her very voracious appetite, that she could get heavy. I am always watching and worrying about her older brother Gibson, who has an ongoing weight issue due to medications he is on, and have added lots of healthy add-ins and snacks to help keep him full. This, of course, has rolled over into all of the FiveSibes™ diet, which is a good thing. Speak...