--> It's Flashback Friday ! And we are jumping back a year for this p hoto of our Bandit waiting for t he arrival of Daylight Saving Time (DST)! This year, DST falls on this Sunday, March 10th, when we will be "springing ahead" our clocks and marking the pending arrival of the start of spring! While we are losing an hour, we gain “longer” days with it staying light later. This allows us so much more time to walk and play with out furkids, although in this Sibe household, we will surely miss the snow! But, having longer days seems like a fair trade-off! There are some important reminders for those who follow DST that we would like to once again review as we prepare for the upcoming spring and summer months: If your pet is on specifically timed medications (like our Epi-Husky Gibson who is on meds he must take 12 hours apart), you can help reset your pet's internal clock for these medications by staggering them by a half-...

Wooo! We are so excited! Look who are the  "Cover Dogs"  for the Winter 2013 issue of the  Dog Writers Association of America 's  Ruff Drafts  newsletter...  our very own resident couple Gibson and Harley!   We are so honored! Thank you DWAA for  selecting our Sibes! So, I suppose... ...they will want a steak dinner tonight... ...and some sunglasses... ...and will start giving pawtographs... ...and have me take their calls... ...and read fan mail to them... ...and drive them around in a limo... ...have me fetch their toys... ...and expect me to wait on them... Oops...gotta run...Harley and Gibson are calling me!   ( wink-wink! ) Have a great day!

Today's Flashback Friday brings us to when Gibson was perfecting his counter surfing skills. Since he has been on Epi meds for three years, he had become quite lethargic and hadn't counter surfed in years. After a bout of Bromide toxicity, (which I previous wrote about) , his meds were reduced and it was as if my boy awoke to being three again! He became energetic, started running, and - of course - rediscovered the fine art of counter surfing! Typically, this sport is not condoned in the house, but seeing him being able to once again stand up on his hind legs just warmed my heart! Flash forward to today...and as many of you know, Gibson tore his cruciate ligament in his right leg and since he's an Epi-Husky, we've decided with our vet that we would go the Conservative Treatment route with him first before considering surgery. Part of that treatment, we learned about the Woundwear A-Trac Stability Brace/Harness from the hu-dad of our late furpal and fellow Epi-...

Today is a very special day f or our fellow Epi- furpal, handsome Quinn, of the beautiful White Dog Army (WDA) ...it's his Gotcha Day! And to celebrate, they are doing something pretty awesome over at the WDA blog...they are holding a Gotcha Day Commentathon to benefit our Live Gib Strong K-9 Epilepsy Awareness Campaign , which benefits the Canine Epilepsy Resources site , which is home to the Epil-K9 list and supports Emma's Fund, and it is provided by the Epil-K9 Foundation. The handsome Gotcha Day boy, Quinn. For the first 30 comments left on the Whi te Dog Army's 2/26 and 2/27 blog posts , the WDA will donate $30 to our campaign, and as an added bonus...they will donate another $ 10 for every ten comments after the first 30! Wow! Just how awesome is that?! We are so thrilled by this generous and so thoughtful event! So please, stop by and leave Quinn some Gotcha Day wishes and help promote K-9 Epi lepsy A wareness and help E pi-dogs worldwide at the same t ...

"Wooo! Happy Blogiversary to us!"  The FiveSibes and I have so much to be cheering about because today is our third Blogiversary ! It's an exciting time as we reflect back on the past three y ears of sharing our lives via blog posts, photographs, and vi deos with all our wonderful Blogger community! I feel very fortunate to be a member of this fabulous and caring pet community a nd so happy for the many friends we have made along the way. I look forward to blogging and sharing more tales of our FiveSibes with all of you, and I look forward to reading your stories, too.     The Sibe kids are just so excited about today , they've donned some disco duds and hit the floor for some rollerskating and dancing fun . We hope you'll enjoy this video and get up and do some dancing of your own! Now , that's the way we like it!   Thank you for following our blog and sharing in our lives . To celebrate your readership and friendship, we'r...

"Woo! What are you looking at? I di d not chew the new dog house , " says Gibson in this Flashback photo of four years ago when he was just three years old! How the story unfolded... I fell in love with this "log cabin" dog house and purchased it on line and then put it together proudly all on my own. It w as , in my opinion, a thing of beauty and would fit perfectly on our deck . At the time, we had just Harley, who was four at the time, and Gibson, three. I couldn't wait for them to see it! Our love birds s eem ed to really like their new deck furniture! After Gibson ch rist ened it by nibbling on the trim, he made the top of the dog house his very favo rite perch , while Harley lounged inside.   The best part was being ins ide the kitchen and seeing him pe ek inside the window! In the summer, he would talk t o me through the s creen!    A while later the Pupsters came along and bumped the prince off h...