❤  It's a very special day - it's Hu-Nanny's Birthday ! ❤  

An Update on Chloe   Chloe is continuing well with her recuperation from her June 6th surgery. To recap, she had to have an emergency double Bilateral Cruciate Imbrication on her hind legs for torn CCLs (ACLs on humans) and torn meniscuses after her attempt to jump up on the bed (which she has done hundreds of times). Best guess is she either was born with weak knee issues and over time the daily wear and tear literally tore her knees up, or she injured one of her knees during one of her play runs and tumbles and then overcompensated for it, thereby damaging the other. Whichever came first, the end result was the same - she apparently did not have healthy knees and she had badly damaged both to the point where she collapsed and could not walk. (For the full story on Chloe, visit our Pawcircle of Healing for Chloe , then Welcome Home, Chloe and For the Love of Chloe posts). Since then, she's been crated 24/7 with an E-collar and for the first week she was carried in and out o...

Woo! It is the Fourth of July! And Harley and the FiveSibes are looking forward to enjoying some BBQ treats!  In honor of this day, we would like to celebrate our country's birthday by sharing this video we created last year that features so many of our furpals from across America! So go get an ice cream cone or two (vanilla please, and don't forget to share with your furpals!), wave some American flags, and enjoy these beautiful "Patriotic Pets on Parade!" While you are enjoying all of the festivities, please be sure to keep our pets safe! While the fireworks displays are beautiful, many pets do not enjoy them. It is also a time of family parties and BBQs and also a time when many pets can get loose and run away. In this month's issue of American Pet Magazine , if you flip to page 5, I have an article Honoring & Calming Pets During Summer's Patriotic Holidays , with some tips on keep our furkids safe during these patriotic holidays. Here's a glim...

"Woo...and there was water and a blowdryer..." So today was "Spa Day" for four out of the FiveSibes (Chloe is still convalescing, so she escaped the dreaded bath!) Out of the four, two had baths and two had just the blow-outs and trim. (Gibson has been feeling under the weather due to a change in his epi-meds compound, so we excused him from the bath this time around). It seems while us hu-family members really love it when the Sibe kids get all deep-cleaned and groomed, for them not so much. With lots of crying and howling (Wolf, above), thrashing around (Bandit), and a little grumbling (Harley), our groomer managed to get them all looking fluffy, clean, and beautiful! The girls Harley and Bandit looking all pretty! Gibson was trimmed up nice and neatly. At the end of the day, what does Spa Day really mean? Here, where we have a groomer who does house calls, it means there's snow furries just blowin' in the wind...and across the deck, ...

"Woo! It's hard work blowing our coats, isn't Gibson?" Wolf says. "Mom did a good job brushing us." "That is just from you, little bro," replies Gibson. "Hey, boys, tomorrow is Spa Day and you all will be getting your coats blown out, bathed, and nails clipped. How great is that?! Wait...why are you all going into the house? Was it something I said??!" * * *

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