We have a lot to be howling about! Just one week from today is Thanksgiving, and while I was caught up in my nightly Husky Huddle of hugs, wet noses, and chatty woos, I started reflecting upon all the things to be thankful for. There are so many, but these top my list: Being alive. Being part of a wonderful family. Having a beautiful daughter who is my best friend. Having beautiful, loving Huskies. Having an adorable abandoned cat accept and adopt us . Having good friends. Having good health for family, friends, and furbabies. I've now added to this list some new friends we are thankful for--both furpals and human. Thanks to the wonderful thing called technology that includes Tweeting, blogging, chatting, texting, and communicating via other social networking systems, the FiveSibes and I have "met" some truly nice, inspirational, and supportive folks and their furbabies. It's great to have the capability of talking about our pets and their love, devotion, ...

Bandit is all ready to get cookin'! Since baking and whipping up treats in the kitchen (especially during the holiday season) is a favorite pastime for my daughter and I...and, of course, the Sibes...I thought I'd launch a new weekly blog hop called "Canine Cooking Corner" that will feature all kinds of snout-smackin' good recipes for our furpals. There will be recipes for healthy kibble add-ins, quick-n-easy nutritional dishes, homemade treats, and some healthy scratch recipes. I should add here that two years ago, when my boy Gibson was diagnosed with epilepsy and put on two kinds of medications, he gained 14 pounds as a side effect of the meds (voracious appetite). I became inventive with the add-ins (i.e. green beans, pumpkin, carrots, etc.) as a way of giving him healthy, fiber-rich foods that will fill him up, but not fatten him up. I'm able to keep him at a steady weight now - and decided to share the healthy add-ins with the rest of the furfamily. A...

My shadow shot this week is of our 2-year-old white Siberian Husky boy, Wolf, as he paused during his early morning play routine to watch his siblings run up the stairs with squeaky toys. ( No Sibe or Human steals a squeaky toy and gets away with it!!! )

Woos to all our Husky, canine, feline, and equine friends out there in Blogland! Wolf and Chloe of the FiveSibes pack here. We're very excited to be "guest bloggers" today (as we always have a lot to say!) Unfortunately, Hu-Mom sprained her knee. She'll be wearing a funny knee brace for about two months, which she's not too happy about! And our big brother Gibson is off to the vet's today as he has an icky eye infection. So while Hu-Mom is busy icing her knee and big bro is at the vet, we thought we'd help out by taking this opportunity to go online and join all our furpals for the Saturday Blog Hop. We hope everyone's weekend is a great one! Stay happy and keep on hopping and howling!

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...