Wolf takes a moment to reflect upon his K9 heroes. On today, Veterans Day, the 11th day of the 11th month...let us all pause at the 11th hour from our daily tasks to take a moment and offer our thanks to all of our veterans both past and present, as well as the soldiers currently serving - both human and K9 - for their faithful service. I'd like to dedicate this Veterans Day blog to my late father, a SSGT who served two tours during WWII. The first in the U.S. Army's First Division (the Big Red One) , and the second with the Rainbow Division. My dad was a great lover of dogs and animals in general. Here he is pictured at his Army base with a couple of his furpals. Just how many different types of canines served as war dogs? According to the United States War Dog Association , in "January, 1942, not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the American Kennel Association and a new group calling itself ' Dogs for Defense ' mobilized ...

Gibson's checking the clock. He knows it's meal time! With the arrival of Daylight Saving Time, it's important to keep in mind that while we Hu-family members think we can get an extra hour of sleep, our canine pals don't really care about that - their internal clocks are what drives them. So if they are used to going out at 5 AM, they will most likely be getting you up at 4 AM (like one of mine did) because to them, it's really 5 AM! Here are several helpful safety tips that we should all do/check when we turn back the clocks: If your pets are on specifically timed medications, i.e. seizure meds (like our boy Gibson), at least for the first day of the new time change, stagger the dosage times. If your pet typically takes his medications at 8 AM and 7 PM, for today, give the AM dosage at the new fall-back time of 7:30 (true time would be 8:30, a half hour later than usual), and give the 7 PM dosage at 6:30 (true time would be 7:30). That way, while their intern...

As you can tell, Halloween in the FiveSibe household really is some howling good fun! We are going to close out this frightfully good day with a video of the Sibes' (well, four out of the five) doing what they do best, followed by some pics of them enjoying their treats, and then finally, one of our jack-o-lanterns featuring a running Husky (stencil compliments of Tales of the Tundra Siberian Husky Rescue !) We hope all Huskies, canines, pets, and Hu-family members had a great Howl-oween!          Treats!!! Chloe digs right in... No, Gibson and Chloe, (the hungry mungries of the pack) it's not food... Bandit doing what she does best...stealing... Chloe, after giving up on eating it, gets all cozy with the stuffed jack-o-lantern... Wolf happily guarding his pumpkin so his sis, Bandit, doesn't steal it too... Gibson, still trying to eat his. No, Gib, not pumpkin like what's in your dinner! Harley doing what she does best.....