And in the spirit of coffee and canines....with Howloween just around the corner, check out the great Pup-Spice Latte pet costume over at Coolest Homemade Costumes HERE and see a great list of DIY costumes and links over at Irresistable Pets HERE. And if you love java and you love dogs, check out this great blog - Coffee With a Canine HERE. And be sure to see the feature interview they did with us a few years back with us  FiveSibes on Coffee With a Canine HERE! We are joining in Sugar, the Golden Retriever and Kol's Notes for their "Tasty Tuesday" Blog Hop for all things food and yummy!

Shhhh....Gibson of the FiveSibes here...Harley, Wolf, Chloe, and Bandit are with me as went onto Hu-mom's laptop to bring you this post because it's a special day today - her birthday! Wooo! We had a fun day with Hu-dad BBQing some steaks (we all got to share one in our dinner, nomm-nommmms!) And then Hu-mom was given a very special Husky Birthday cake...this year it was a picture of me on the cake! Woooo! Our Hu-sister picked out the photo and  helped Hu-dad choose the cake! We love our Hu-mom because she's our very best friend and loves us so much!  Here's a little wrap-up of the day:     Woo! It's me with Hu-mom's special Birthday cake!     The bakery did a nice job! It looks just like me!   It looks too pretty to eat...but I hope we will!   Woo! Hu-mom gave me a little tiny taste! Yum! Wooooo...time to sing "Happy Birthday" to our Hu-mom... all together now... Wooo! Thanks for joining us! ...

"You scream! I scream!  We all woo-scream  for Ice Cream!"  This Flashback Friday moments dates back to 2006, when my daughter was sharing her ice cream with our "originals" Harley and Gibson, who was just a puppy! You can see at nearly six months of age, he was already the same size as Harley, who was one! My wooly boy didn't stay small for long! What has stayed the same though is there love for ice cream!  Do you woo-scream for ice cream? Flashback Fridays are brought to you by us - the FiveSibes - and our co-host, Love is being owned by a Husky , each Friday. We hope you'll find a photo or video from Memory Lane, post it, and link up to our blog hop each week! If you don't catch it on Friday, you can link up any time during the week! To catch our past Flashbacks, just enter "Flashback Friday" in the search box. We hope you'll come join us!

Awooo, Mateys! Pirate Gib here t' put a wee bit of fun in yer Sunday!  'Tis me dressed 'ere in me pirate's hat from a past Howl-o-ween! Shiver me wooly fur, this pirate stuff be fun!  (Wooo...Mom's coming back, I better get off the laptop! Before I go, I'll leave you with this fun video clip I'm sure a lot you will remember! Check out the pirate at :39, he has a hat like mine! Woo! Have A Happy  "Talk Like A Pirate" Weekend! For more Pirate trivia & fun visit "Talk Like A Pirate Day" site!  

Did Gibson always looks so fluffy?  In a word, no! In this photo of Gibson pictured above with my daughter at her graduation - which flashes back to 2006, when Gib was just a pup of six months with his short summer puppy coat, there was no hint of the big, almost 100-pound super fluffy wooly boy he would grow into! Aren't Husky coats just amazing? Here's some more fun fast facts about a Siberian Husky's coat (traditional and wooly): 1) Blowin' in the Wind. They blow their undercoats out twice a year. And if you've ever seen the snow furries from a shedding Husky, you know just how major of an event this is - there's so much fur that you can make a life-size fur model from the shedding hair! The good news is that when they are not shedding, they really don't shed! I have a blue cordouroy couch to prove it! (However, with five Huskies, one is always at a point of shedding, meaning some Husky is shedding at some point year round here!) And the warmer th...

Today started out as one of those wonderfully lazy rainy Sundays where we all wanted to spend it like Wolf! Happy Sunday!  

September 11, 2001. 9/11. Fourteen years ago the face of our U.S. landscape changed forever when we were attacked on our own soil. Today, 9/11, is dedicated to all those  - canine and human - who fearlessly responded to the call of duty that day, and the days following, at the World Trade Center in New York City, in the Staten Island landfill, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC; and in the Pennsylvanian field. Since this is a canine blog, I'd like to talk about the amazing four-legged heroes...more than 300 of them who answered the call that day and the many days following. Today, all but one of the SAR dogs have crossed the Rainbow Bridge. We will never forget. Rescue Dogs of 911 by gojohns “The most important thing for America to know about that working dogs, is that on a very personal level they serve human beings every single day. They are highly skilled and trained professionals…. We have been repeatedly told that technology can not at this point ...

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer." ~ Helen Hunt Jackson With the arrival of Labor Day, also comes the unofficial end to summer. September is such a beautiful month. Perfect really. The temperatures are still warm. The waters still sparkle. And the crickets still chirp all lulling us into the false sense that summer is still here...after all, it's not the 23rd yet! But even with still humid days, although we do not wish to admit it, the sunlight is growing shorter and there is something in the air; while not yet the cool snap of Autumn, it is some thing. Something that tells us summer is ready to leave as Autumn beckons in the not-to-distant future, waiting in all of its golden glory of colorful foliage, crisp air, and pumpkins decorating the landscapes and our food!   I love September. But I admit I will miss the long, hazy, lazy days of summer when everything seems to be mov...

"I see the moon and the moon sees me. God bless the moon and God bless me!" ~Lullaby