Tomorrow morning at 2 AM we welcome Daylight Saving Time (DST) here and in many areas of the world...and after the deep arctic freeze and copious amounts of snow that has occurred in our area this year, we humans are certainly looking forward to being able to "spring" our clocks ahead an hour, which means...Spring is on its way with daylight giving us longer days to have more fun running, playing, swimming, and eating! (Can you say BBQ?! Nom-nommmms!) Daylight Saving Time is also the time of year we like to remind everyone about some very important seasonal health and safety tips: PET MEDICATIONS TIME : If your pet is on specifically timed medications (like our Epi-Husky Gibson who is on meds he must take 12 hours apart), you can help reset your pet's internal clock for these medications by staggering them by a half-hour starting on Sunday. Example: If your pet had been receiving their dosages at 7:30 AM before DST, then under the f...

It seems only fitting that today's Flashback Friday be dedicated to our beautiful alpha queen, Nanuk "Harley" Mari, our first Siberian Husky who kicked off the potato chip syndrome in our family, and who will be celebrating her 10th Birthday on the 10th! Pictured here she was just a mere seven-week-old pup who was a startling beauty right from the start. Her gorgeous blue eyes, intense mask, and vast charm immediately stole our hearts. As soon as my daughter and puppy Harley's eyes met, it was as if she was destined to be in our family. We love you so much, Harley. It's hard to believe it's almost a decade already that you have been ruling our family! Here's to another ten at least! Love you, Momma! "Love at first sight started when we met each other eye to eye, but never ended because we found each other at heart to heart." ~Unknown Flashback Fridays are brought to you by us - the FiveSibes - and our new co-hosts, Love i...

  Check out our FiveSibes patch on Jr. Musher Nicole Forto's arm!  ...Well, sort of! While we won't actually be at the Junior Iditarod in person, we will be enjoying this year's race as what I like to call "armchair mushers!" My FiveSibes family is so very excited to announce that we are one of Nicole and Team Ineka's sponsors for this year's Junior Iditarod! Wooo! For us it's the next best thing to actually being there in person! While we wish we could actually be there with Nicole, her family and their Team Ineka, we are thrilled that Nicole is wearing our FiveSibes patch, with a ribbon for K9 Epilepsy Awareness, on her parka and "taking us along" on a thrilling sled ride of a lifetime! For up-to-date news, visit jriditarod.com! The writer and the mom in me is so very proud of this young, impressive lady! I'm always just so thrilled to chat with Nicole, and we had the chance to catch up pre-race on my rec...

" S oft white crystals glistening in the sky   N oses are freezing so we all go inside to get warm.   O n the snowy hill where we live w e gather around the window to watch shining stars above. W et balls of water are coming down to the ground." ~MalletMartin Students, mallettmartin.wikispaces.com Today's Flashback Friday post is of this one of my all-time favorite images of my FiveSibes - (and furangel kitty Smokie) from a few years back in their favorite element of all - snow!  I even had it created into a Christmas card that year, and it's enlarged and framed on my living room wall. Every time I look at it, I just smile. I truly captures that "snowdog" essence of my beautiful furbabies! This is also the photo I submitted to the #20BeautifulDogs on Instagram, and want to give an appreciative shout-out to my Flashback Friday co-host and fellow Husky parent, Jenna, of Love is being owned by a Husky blog for nominating my FiveSibes! If yo...

*Updated September 2024   Twenty-two seconds. Have you ever timed just how fast 22 seconds goes by? It's pretty fast. And according to K9s for Warriors ' STOP22 , "Today and every day moving forward 22 Veterans commit suicide, this is over 8,000, military heroes that will be lost in one year. This sobering fact can’t be ignored." We repeat: Every 22 seconds we lose one of our military veterans to suicide. K9s For Warriors aims to help these veterans by providing "service canines to our warriors suffering from post-traumatic stress and/or traumatic brain injury as a result of military service post 9/11. Our goal is to give a new leash on life to rescue dogs and military heroes, empowering warriors to return to civilian life with dignity and independence."   "STOP22 is an awareness campaign to show our  Nation's Military, active and retired, that they are not forgotten. With 22 Veterans expected to commit suicide today, your he...