A fond New Year's Memory: Gibson sure loved to party!  A loving home, and understanding of the breed, is all they truly need . (Attribution: FiveSibes.blogspot.com)   A s we prepare to shut the door on 2024, and step into a fresh new year--a clean slate of 365 days to do better. Much better. I'm talking about helping to reduce (or a bigger wish for 2025, to eliminate) the number of Siberian Huskies that wind up abandoned, roaming the streets hurt, injured, sick; or in an already too-full shelter. Today, sadly, yet another shelter reports that they over-capacity—m eaning they CANNOT take in more dogs! 2024 has seen longtime Siberian Husky rescues shutter their businesses. Shelters are at over-capacity levels and stopped intakes. Rescuers are exhausted. They can only work with the limited funding and space they have for a certain number of dogs. Many rescues do not have a brick-and-mortar facility, they rely solely on foster families. The shelters that do have facilities rely o...

  Woo! How did you all spend your National Dog Day yesterday? It was pretty hot and humid here still, so today (when my glasses fogged up from the humidity as soon as I stepped outside), we decided to forego sweating outside while the grandkiddos and Wolfie splashed in the kiddie dog pool and opted for all of us hiding in the a/c most of day! Wolfie *thought* he wanted to go outside for our usual play and hang time, but immediately did an about face, staring at the sliding door willing it to open back up to the cool house! I was right behind him! While here at FiveSibes I believe every day is a dog day when you have one as part of your family, August 26th is an actual designated dog holiday! Now, if you're not familiar with this special day, we'll give you a little background!   National Dog Day was founded in 2004 by pet lifestyle expert and author Colleen Paige. According to Colleen, " National Dog Day celeb...

    Read more about beautiful Athena further down in this post and how you can adopt her and other gorgeous Huskies from today's highlighted rescue~Northern Exposure Siberian Husky Rescue!       Organization Contact Information     Northern Exposure Siberian Husky Rescue (NESHR) P.O. Box 4224 Brick, NJ 08723 Tel:   (800) 589-1930 Website:  http://neshr.org/   Adoption Application:   http://neshr.org/wp-content/uploads/NESHR-Adoption-Application.pdf   Foster Application: http://neshr.org/why-foster/   Facebook Page:   https://www.facebook.com/NorthernExposureSiberianHuskyRescue   "Our goal is to find appropriate, permanent homes for Siberian Huskies who have lost their way in the world, promote their health and well being, and educate the public about these wonderful dogs to increase understanding of the breed and reduce the likelihood of homelessness. NESHR is always looking for loving foster families in ...