While February is ‪ Pet Dental Health Month‬ and comes to a close today, every day should be pet dental health care! Today's Monday Meme is of Harley flashing her great Sibe smile! Read my article "Flash Your Pet's Pearly Whites" starting on page 12 in Hudson Valley Paw Print Magazine for important info and vet tips so your pets can flash their healthy pearly whites!  Read the article here (page 12):   And today is a special "extra" day - Leap Day!  Another full day of treats, love, and hugs! Woo! Here's our (now furangel) Gibson leaping in the snow a few winter's back!

"Oh, hey, Mom! Just checking out some recipes!" This week the weather has been very damp, raining, and we even had a few rare northeast February thunder and lightning storms! With the inclement weather, it's a perfect time to warm  up by doing a little baking. As I reached for one of my favorite cookbooks and removed it from the shelf, I smiled through tears as I traced the chewed up cover, and the taped up spine and torn pages, remembering back to when the cover was destroyed. Gibson had another bout of hind end weakness and his rehabilitation included being in a stability harness brace and my walking him in a sling harness to keep weight off his hind end, combined with rest on his water bed along with supplements and laser therapy. He obviously became very bored one night when I walked out into the kitchen and caught him in the middle of chomping on my cookbooks! The expression on his face was priceless! He had removed several of them off the lowest shelf and ju...

Wow! It's a special newsy Tuesday as we here at FiveSibes are celebrating our SIXTH Blogiversary this month! As a photojournalist by trade, I was inspired to start blogging by my five Siberian Huskies: Harely, Gibson, Wolfgang, Chloe, and Bandit. Their personalities and antics and our love of the breed spurred me to begin writing about them.  My first blog post February 23, 2010 My very first FiveSibes blog post was on February 23, 2010 with an article on proper dental care for Pet Dental Health Month. Blogging is an something I enjoy very much. I love to write and I love being a photographer. This blog gives me the opportunity to share my work in the pet arena...and I have fabulous models in the FiveSibes! I enjoy sharing stories about their lives, and bringing information about the Siberian Husky breed as well as healthcare issues, diet and nutrition, and holistic and traditional therapies that benefits not only Huskies, but all dogs. And as equally enjoyable is gett...

Happy Valentine's Day from all of us here at FiveSibes! My boy Wolf loves to smell roses, and he loved the bouquet of red ones my hubby gave me today. As he went over to give them a sniff, I photographed him framed against the sunlight pouring in the window, casting him in a shadowy glow for today's Shadow Shot Sunday! Shadow Shot Sunday 2 In other Valentine's Day news... On today's Valentine's Day episode of my Dog Works Radio show, "The Sibe Vibe," my featured guest is Nanette Willis of Sassy's Goodies in Missouri. Named after one of Nanette's Huskies, Sassy's Goodies are all natural, home-baked canine cookies and "Pupcakes" that are gluten-free, and now even some grain-free selections!  Inspired to cook and bake healthy choices for her dogs after her previous Husky, Nala, passed away from complications of canine diabetes. A fun, informative hour of talking sweet treats for our dogs! You can check out Sassy...

"I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, 'I love you.'"  ~William Shakespeare This is an absolute favorite photo of my daughter and Chloe. Flashing back to July 2012, sweet Chloe blew out both of her CCL's at the same time while mid-air jumping on the bed, and went in for emergency double imbrication surgery. (Full story HERE ). I snapped this photo of my daughter comforting Chloe upon her return back home post-surgery, and all I can say is...pure love. I was nominated by All Things Collie to participate in this challenge. Please see the past two days' posts for my Day 1 and Day 2 quotes, photos, and nominees. There are three rules to this challenge, and they are: 1. Post for three consecutive days. 2. Choose and share one or three quotes each day. 3. Challenge three additional bloggers each day. Today, on my final day of posting for the challenge, I nominate: 1. Confessions of a Rescue Mom 2. ...

Another of my favorite quotes from Pulitzer Prize winner, Marsha Norman, and one of my favorite photographs I shot of Harley.  "Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."   What is your soul writing about you?  I was nominated by All Things Collie to participate in this challenge. Please see yesterday's post for my Day 1 quote, photo, and nominees. There are three rules to this challenge, and they are: 1. Post for three consecutive days. 2. Choose and share one or three quotes each day. 3. Challenge three additional bloggers each day.   Today, I nominate: 1. A Husky Life 2. 24 Paws of Love 3. Two French Bulldogs Be sure to stop back tomorrow for our final Day 3 of the 3-Day Quote Challenge and our three new nominees, plus it's our Flashback Friday Blog Hop! Hope you'll join us!

Today, we here at FiveSibes are doing a bit of fun double-duty as it is Wordless Wednesday and I was asked to particpate in the 3-Day Quote Challenge by our beautiful furfriends over at All Things Collie , and gladly accepted! So, today's Wordless Wednesday will be an almost wordless post!  As many of you know, I have always loved pairing quotes with photographs and posts, and today I'm starting off with reposting one of my favorites. Gibson was such a strong warrior with his Canine Epilepsy and all of his health issues, that one day when we were sitting out on the grass, I snapped this photo of him just enjoying the sunshine. We used to do that...just sit and enjoy some quiet time together. Especially outdoors when he was feeling good, it was a real treat for him. He just loved to go for walks with me and hang together outside. When I had created this, he had just finished yet another stint of rehab, and was just simply enjoying the afternoon. He taught me how to do th...

One of my favorite Mardi Gras collages What is the Krewe of Barkus ? It's the only canine Mardi Gras krewe (and parade) in  New Orleans! It is also a non-profit organizaton that raises funds every year to benefit local animal shelters and national humane socie ties. It's motto is "Human e Treatment for All of God's Creatures."   According to the Hall of Festivities Mardi Gras , the Barkus Krewe: "... was created in November of 1992 at a meeting of the Margaret Orr Fan Club (Margaret Orr being a WDSU-TV Weather Anchor). Its membership limited to canines, the Krewe of Barkus is headquartered in the vicinity of the "Flea Market" and includes such rules as: "Cats, while welcome, will not be provided security." The first official Krewe of Barkus meeting was held in Janaury 1993, when the first King and Queen Barkus were chosen. The event is always open to the public. Here's a look back at the beautiful adoptable and ...

Today is International Epilepsy Day. A joint initiative by the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) and the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), Epilepsy Day is a global event takes place on the second Monday of February each year to highlight Epilepsy and those who live with it and their families. Here at FiveSibes, where we highlight Canine Epilepsy, we are choosing to celebrate the #yesIcan the me and our continual message of our #LiveGibStrong campaign - that dogs can~and DO~live happy, full lives with Canine Epilepsy. As many of you know, my Epi-dog (epileptic dog) and K9 Epilepsy Ambassado r , Gibson, was diagnosed at age three and he so loved life! While we managed to keep him seizure-free for seven years, he did battle plenty of side effects of medications, but slayed each battle as the true warrior he was. Holistic treatments and supplements, combined with his Epilepsy medications, helped him every step of the way. He loved to talk. He loved to run. He lov...