***Happy Update! Niko and Hansel have been ADOPTED!*** Read more about handsome boys "Niko" and "Hansel," two gorgeous Siberian Huskies further down in this post and how you can adopt them, or any other available pet from today's highlighted rescue~ Martin County Humane Society a/k/a The Carl Nettifee Memorial Animal Shelter.   Welcome back to our FiveSibes #WaitingWednesday where I highlight rescues and feature some of their adoptable Siberian Huskies and northern breed dogs that are waiting for a permanent or foster home!  It is FiveSibes hope that you will SHARE these posts to give attention to the rescue and help find  forever loving homes for these precious dogs.     ~ Dorothy "FiveSibesMom"   ***SPECIAL FEATURE***  This week, and especially with June being the month of Father's Day, I'm excited to bring you a special feature highlighting today's rescue— the Martin County Humane Society~The Carl Nettifee Memorial Animal Shel...

A fond New Year's Memory: Gibson sure loved to party!  A loving home, and understanding of the breed, is all they truly need . (Attribution: FiveSibes.blogspot.com)   A s we prepare to shut the door on 2024, and step into a fresh new year--a clean slate of 365 days to do better. Much better. I'm talking about helping to reduce (or a bigger wish for 2025, to eliminate) the number of Siberian Huskies that wind up abandoned, roaming the streets hurt, injured, sick; or in an already too-full shelter. Today, sadly, yet another shelter reports that they over-capacity—m eaning they CANNOT take in more dogs! 2024 has seen longtime Siberian Husky rescues shutter their businesses. Shelters are at over-capacity levels and stopped intakes. Rescuers are exhausted. They can only work with the limited funding and space they have for a certain number of dogs. Many rescues do not have a brick-and-mortar facility, they rely solely on foster families. The shelters that do have facilities rely o...