The day began innocently with a beautiful dawn... When suddenly...the Sibes realized it was SPA DAY! "Big Brother Gibson is outside...what are they doing to him???" He didn't seem to mind the loud contraption...   Can you hear Harley panting? She knew whose turn was next... Wolf and Bandit tried to hide... Oh, no...he got Chloe! Time for some (badly needed) nail clipping... She's not happy...but look at those pretty manicured paws! All this came from Gibson...and it's not really even coat blowing season!!!  "Woo...Spa Day is hard work." Gibson getting ready for a nap while it was Harley's turn in the tub! After she was blow-dried, she show us her floofy white tail (or did she tell us to kiss her beautiful clean Husky @$$???) "(Sigh). It's hard work being beautiful. They better be done." "Do you think it's safe to go back out??? Can we make a break for it??" "Woo! We escaped! Hey...Gib...(sn...

With the month of February winding down, I thought I'd take look at some of the things that stand out this month. Earlier on, I spoke about it being National Pet Dental Health Month , and February is also Responsible Pet Owner's Month, and today closes out the Animal Legal Defense Fund's third annual National Justice for Animals Week .  First, in honor of this being the month of love and caring...I'd like to thank Peggy of Peggy's Pet Place for the pawsome bumper sticker she sent to us as part of her furbaby Kelly's birthday/Valentine's Day drawing. As the sticker says, "Hug a pet today!" Or two, or five, or six! Gibson is pleased to show off how he hugs his "pet" stuffed buddy. Please be sure to stop by Peggy's wonderful blog and say "hi!" and let her know the FiveSibes sent you! We see it or read about it every day - severe injustices bestowed upon animals. There are dogs who are used for "sport" fighti...

T his blog is a momentous one...it's the FiveSibes first blogiversary! One year ago today I began sharing my writings and photographs of our five Siberian Huskies with the posting of my very first blog article titled, February is Canine Dental Health Month , featuring our alpha queen, Harley, flashing the camera with her pearly canine whites! Little did I know then just how wonderful this blog ride would be or the many wonderful pet-loving folks I have met along the way. Thank you all for sharing in "a day in the life of FiveSibes" many times over since that very first blog entry. I enjoy and appreciate  your readership, comments, thoughts, support, and friendship; and am certainly looking forward to the next year of canine and pet chit-chat! F or this special date, I thought it would be a perfect time to talk about an essential element of training, and not for just Siberian Huskies, but all pets - socialization. Many have asked me over the years how did we get our Sibe...

  For this week's Shadow Shot Sunday, I photographed sweet Chloe patiently waiting for some treats by the soft glow of the back porch light! For some other cool Shadow Shots from fellow photographers and bloggers across the globe, check out Hey Harriet's site every Sunday! NEW BLOG FEATURE ANNOUNCEMENT :  If you know of a school that has the  Siberian Husky for their mascot, then I want to know! Send me an Email at FiveSibes(at)gmail(dot)com with the name of the school and where it is, and some quality JPEG photos of the Husky mascot, artwork, bumper stickers, logos, anything that shows the Siberian Husky school spirit, and I'll make a nice slideshow highlighting that school for one of my blog entries!   Due to permission issues, please DO NOT send any photos that include students or their names - just photos of artwork or mascot images. Please be sure to obtain permission from the school  or district.  Thank you! GO TEAM HUSKY!

Ah, the sounds of a new day dawning  at our house... Happy Woos-day!!! Did you catch the still-sleepy Sibe howling on her back? Silly Sibes!

♥ Have a LOVEly Valentine's day!♥ O n a side note, as some of you were so nice as to comment about them, I had some cute falling hearts and a splashy Valentine's Day widget on my blog to add some festiveness to it. Then suddenly, my blog was "highjacked!" It sent readers to a variety of other websites. Some of you I know were kind enough to alert me to that issue. Then, I couldn't access my own blog at times from this. Very frustrating!!! Thanks to three wonderful folks - one who alerted me to the terrible "art" of highjacking so I actually had an idea of what was happening, and to another (my friend and tech guru!) for helping me fix it! Unfortunately, you can not speak to anyone at Blogger (either by phone or Email), so I posted a notice in the Blogger Help Forum - and I did indeed get a speedy response that, too, was helpful. So lesson learned here  - be careful of the widgets!!!