Mark your calendars! If you are visiting the Long Island/New York/Tri-State Area on Saturday, July 18 , be sure to stop over at the Garden City Park Petco™ where I will be doing a book signing and handing out information on Canine Epilepsy Awareness at The Empire State Snow Dogs Club 's first Canine Epilepsy Expo & Fundraiser !  Vendor Space Still Available!  Contact snowusin(at)gmail(dot)com! At my booth, I look forward to meeting everyone and will have copies of informational handouts from various Canine Epilepsy organizations, as well as my own books available for purchase, which I'll be happy to sign! EPIc Dog Tales: Heartfelt Stories About Amazing Dogs Living & Loving Life With Canine Epilepsy , a 264 page beautiful color coffee-table style book filled with personal stories of 124 amazing dogs with Canine Epilepsy, plus a vast resource section.   ~AND~ The FiveSibes™ Tale What's Wrong With Gibson? Learning Abou...

Flashing back to 2006, this is one of my favorite pics of puppy Gibson with my teenager daughter. Already a big boy at just shy of six months old, he loved to make himself all comfy cozy in my daughter's lime green papasan chair, his favorite spot at the time! Seems like just yesterday... “Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut Flashback Fridays are brought to you by us - the FiveSibes - and our co-host, Love is being owned by a Husky , each Friday. We hope you'll find a photo or video from Memory Lane, post it, and link up to our blog hop each week! If you don't catch it on Friday, you can link up any time during the week! To catch our past Flashbacks, just enter "Flashback Friday" in the search box! We hope you'll come join us!

Marshall Gentleman Gib is in town! Yee-hah! What a fantastic day today is!!! First, it's the FiveSibes Hu-Nanny's 94th Birthday!!! Woooo! And what better way to celebrate than cowgirl-style in our Blogville's Rodeo! The horses are saddled up, we've packed up our gear, and ready to head out on the trails for a some good ol' fashioned cowboy and cowgirl fun! So let's move 'em on up, ride 'em out, and keep those doggies movin' as we head on out on the range for some rodeo fun! My father was a cowboy in Montana during his youth when he was serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCCs). In his spare time, he "broke in" - trained - wild mules and horses. When I was 11,  my family traded in the city life and moved to upstate New York and on a parcel of 10-acres of land. Right after our house was built, the first thing my dad did was bring home some horses! Our very first one - Tennessee - was a 23-year-old Standardbred Pacer who was sl...

Chloe the Elf is all ready to ship out so me Buddy books! Picture this...the snow is falling, glistening in the moonlight. A warm fire is crackling in the hearth. The sweet smells of baked goods and fresh pine tease the senses as holiday music fills the air.   Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening. So right about now...you're either smiling and daydreaming of pumpkin pie and fresh dog cookies...or you're groaning! I know it's July, but it marks the halfway point to....Christmas! My favorite holiday! So what better time to do some celebrating and bring you a sweet sugar plumb of a GIVEAWAY! Do you remember the story of Buddy, the Christmas Husky ? It's s pecial story, heartbreaking, while also being heart lifting. Buddy is a real life Siberian Husky I wrote about in Photo by Lisa Byrd. Courtesy of Mama Shay. my book Buddy, the Christmas Husky~A True Holiday Miracle .  He loves to "Roo-Roo" and loves ...