Chloe's always ready to eat! Can you smell that???!!! It's the aroma of turkey, and stuffing, and pumpkin pie! Thanksgiving is almost here and today is "Tasty Tuesday" by Kol's Notes and Sugar, the Golden Retriever , AND it's also the second installment of the Two Little Cavalier's Regressive Dinner Pet Event blog hop, which this time covers the scrumptious "Main Course" category! Woooo...today is a double-dose of yumminess; I'm getting hungry just thinking about it all! For our dish, we'd like to share yet another recipe from our Canine Cooking Corner recipe video series, called "Turkey Mish-Mash" and the FiveSibes™ were on hand to do a little quality control and some taste testing along the way! With Thanksgiving being this Thursday, this recipe is perfect as it uses roasted turkey (or chicken) and pumpkin puree, and it's already been 100% Sibe tested and approved! So save some of those leftover from Turkey Day and...

Gibson - diagnosed with Canine Epilepsy in 2009 N ovember is national Epilepsy Awareness Month and a good time as any to talk about a cause very close to my heart - Canine Epilepsy. As many of you know, my five-year-old wooly Siberian Husky boy, Gibson, is an "Epi-dog" who was diagnosed in 2009 after being hospitalized for a cluster of Grand Mal seizures. I shudder when thinking back to those earlier days. It was a very scary time for me. Last November, I chose to share my personal journal notes with readers in a blog entry titled One Husky's Journey with Epilepsy to Highlight November's Epilepsy Awareness Month as I traveled with my boy through some new and very rough waters called Canine Epilepsy. If you are interested in reading those entries, which are raw and in-the-moment writings, please feel free.  I t still brings tears to my eye recalling that very first seizure episode he had in January of 2009. As you will read, I had discovered him motionless post-se...

Here it is Friday - and almost time to kick-start the weekend! Our Bandit girl has been very busy working hard keeping an eye on things in the office, making sure everything is in order... ...like keeping a watchful eye on the postman, the cats, and the squirrels in the yard...  ...and checking on her brown stuffie dog...  Bandit's been a busy working class dog!  Yawn. Time for a Sibe snooze!  Happy Friday! Here's to a great weekend! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For some holiday season fun, stop over to Finn's blog or HoundDogsMom's blog to sign up for the fun 2011 Blogville Christmas Card Exchange! Wooo, the holidays are coming fast! Now, we just need that snow...Santa, are you listening???!!!

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Kelly the dog inspires Hu-Mom to diet, get healthy, and write a book about it all! Hot off the presses, our Chloe girl snatched the copy of Peggy Frezon's (of Peggy's Pet Place blog ) Dieting with my Dog : One Busy Life; Two Full Figures and Unconditional Love when it arrived from Amazon.com . Now, sometimes I tease sweet Chloe and call her "chunky monkey" because she is always hungry...so when she snagged the book right between her teeth and headed for the sofa, I wondered if I had hurt her feelings.  Now, honestly, Chloe is not chunky, she is rather fit. But I do worry about her with her very voracious appetite, that she could get heavy. I am always watching and worrying about her older brother Gibson, who has an ongoing weight issue due to medications he is on, and have added lots of healthy add-ins and snacks to help keep him full. This, of course, has rolled over into all of the FiveSibes™ diet, which is a good thing. Speak...

  "Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Thank you to our Shadow Shot Sunday host, Hey Harriet !

Harley pays homage to K-9 veterans. The Soldier Dog   by Joe Ferra  I was trained to use my eyes to watch  and protect you from harm. My ears to alert you  of impending danger like an alarm. My keen sense of smell  to detect an enemy close at bay. Yes I was a soldier who gave my life  so you could fight another day. So remember me as time goes by This soldier dog so true. For I had only one life to give  and I gave that life to you. Today is Veterans Day. On this date, 11-11-11, at the 11th hour...let's all pause for a moment to reflect upon the services and sacrifices our veterans - both human and canine - give, and have given in the past, so we all can have the everyday freedoms we all so enjoy. We thank you. Canine soldiers hold an important role in our history. According to the U.S. War Dogs Association ,  “Military Working Dogs have been used by the U.S. Military since World War I. American families donate...