Supporting Awareness All Year Long! As part of our "Live Gib Strong K9 Epilepsy Awareness" campaign, Gibson and I continue to share information and resources on seizures and Canine Epilepsy to hopefully help others. This video contains excellent information on the causes of seizures from Dr. Karen Becker of Healthy Pets, presented by Mercola , including the connection between collars and seizures, among so much more, including numerous causes as well as treatments. This is a must add for any pet parent's library! Feel free to share the link to this FiveSibes blog post to help share this valuable information.

November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month and Gibson and I will be featuring lots of information, resources, and giveaways this month as as part of our "Live Gib Strong" K-9 Epilepsy Awareness Campaign , so be sure to check back here throughout the month, and bring your friends, too! To kick things off, we are conducting a survey to poll Epi-dog parents in order to collect information that we will share with everyone once all the analytics are in. If you, or someone you know, is or has been a parent to a dog (any breed) who has/had Canine Epilepsy or seizure disorders, we'd really appreciate your taking a few minutes to fill out my survey below, and sharing a link to our blog so that others may also share their info with us as well. Thank you! I will also be featuring a "Live Gib Srong" Epi-Tip each day for the month of November (and we'll repeat it again in March for Purple Day Awareness Month) in an ongoing effort to bring awareness to this ...

We are so thrilled that our boy "Gibson" is featured on the newest issue of American Pet Magazine ! Please check out this great informative pet magazine online HERE and be sure to read my "Gib Strong" article on Canine Epilepsy Awareness in honor of November being Epilepsy Awareness Month.   “Live Gib Strong” is a K-9 Epilepsy Awareness Campaign to help spread the word that dogs with seizures and/or Canine Epilepsy, can - and DO - live full, happy lives. Developed by Dorothy Wills-Raftery of the FiveSibes™ in honor of her own Epi-dog, Siberian Husky “Gibson,” the mission of this campaign is to educate others by helping to raise awareness on the disorder by sharing information and helpful resources, fundraising for supportive Canine Epilepsy non-profits, and offering informational support for Epi-dogs and their guardians worldwide. *** UPDATE*** Pawsome News Alert! We have some more good news to share today! The fabulous House Wo...

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...