Woo! Today is our beautiful alpha queen Harley's 13th Birthday! Wow! It seems like just yesterday she was a wee pup of 7 weeks old when we drove an hour away in a pouring rain storm to pick up what was our family's first Siberian Husky. My daughter had wanted a Husky pup for a long time, since she was a kid! But I always said when she grew up and knew how to care for a dog, I would get her one. We already had our senior dog, Chelsey, a beautiful German Shepherd and Akita mix we had adopted from our local SPCA when my daughter was very young. They grew up together and were best buds. Once I was confident she could care for her own, we brought Harley into our family. Little did we know then, that flash forward - we would add four more Huskies to our family and they would become the incredible FiveSibes!  Harley has always been the alpha. The leader of the pack family. When we brought Gibson home at four months of age, she was a year and a half, he fell head over fluffy t...

"Happiness is a warm puppy." ~Charles M. Schulz Oh, my sweet little baby boy, Wolfie! Flashing back nine years to the spring of 2008, puppy "Wolfgang White Wolf of Mystic Mountain" was welcomed into our home along with his three littermates, sisters Chloe and Bandit, and joining our "originals" Harley and Gibson, the FiveSibes were formed! Pictured here, my little white fuzzy boy went out on our first pet store shopping trip and he loved riding in the cart! He wooed and howled all the way back to the car! To this day, he's my sweet "baby boy!"  You're Invited!   Come Stroll Memory Lane With Us!   Do you have a photo from your pet's past that you'd like to share? Come stroll down Memory Lane with us here at FiveSibes and join in our Flashback Friday blog hop (we are open all week)! Just post your pic on your blog, grab our badge from below (yes, that's Gibson & little bro, pupster Wolfie!) &...

Today's Flashback Friday memory dates 12 years to 2005 when our alpha queen Harley joined our family at seven weeks old! She was a gorgeous blue-eyed beauty with a fierce mask that just stole our hearts! Harley was my daughter's dream dog - a Siberian Husky. Little did we know when we drove home from the city with our new family member, who slept the whole way home in a torrential rain storm, that she would grow up to rule the future family of FiveSibes! Harley would become the instant love of our second Husky, my beautiful fluffy wooly boy, Gibson; and the amazing surrogate momma to our Pupsters Wolf, Chloe, and Bandit. Today, at 12.5 years young - she still is the boss and every bit active as she can be. While she has a slight stiffness in her hind leg from arthritis that occassionaly betrays her youth, plus she is now deaf, she is as bright, and smart, and playful as ever! She is our amazing alpha queen, our Sibe family's first Husky, and the one responsible for my...

Today, my trip down Memory Lane is of my wooly boy, Gibson. Flashing back to April of 2006, when my sweet baby boy was just an adorable, already sweet, four month old puppy, and the second Siberian Husky to join our family! As soon as I saw him and picked him up, I couldn't put him down, and he didn't want me to! He had such captivating, soulful eyes, and I only had eyes for him! We snuggled and slept together on my recliner, with him on my lap (at four months he was already a good size and took up the length of me!) for the whole night. I was SO in love with this boy, a special love that has captured my heart for eternity. It was love at fluffy, wooly first sight! When I saw him come bounding out, doing a puppy version of what was to become his famous Gibbie Hip-Hop dance, I knew my Husky had just chosen me! He was so happy, something he would be always be throughout his too-short life...a very happy Husky! I honestly believe he was born that way! That day when we first me...

It seems only fitting that today's Flashback Friday be dedicated to our beautiful alpha queen, Nanuk "Harley" Mari, our first Siberian Husky who kicked off the potato chip syndrome in our family, and who will be celebrating her 10th Birthday on the 10th! Pictured here she was just a mere seven-week-old pup who was a startling beauty right from the start. Her gorgeous blue eyes, intense mask, and vast charm immediately stole our hearts. As soon as my daughter and puppy Harley's eyes met, it was as if she was destined to be in our family. We love you so much, Harley. It's hard to believe it's almost a decade already that you have been ruling our family! Here's to another ten at least! Love you, Momma! "Love at first sight started when we met each other eye to eye, but never ended because we found each other at heart to heart." ~Unknown Flashback Fridays are brought to you by us - the FiveSibes - and our new co-hosts, Love i...

"A dog wags its tail with its heart."  ~Martin Buxbaum *Join us with a Friday stroll down  Memory Lane!*   Grab our badge and join in!  Share your blog, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram #FlashbackFriday photo and mention the FiveSibes ™  with a link back to here and leave us comment so we can come visit your Flashback, too!  To catch up on past Flashback Fridays, visit us here:   Flashback Friday #33: Circle of Love: Celebrating Life Flashback Friday #32: Those Were the Days, My Friend ~ When Gibson Was Smaller Than Harley! Flashback Friday #31: Puppy Gibson Steals Our Hearts! Flashback Friday #30: Summer Lovin' Flashback Friday #29: Puppy Originals Flashback Friday #28: Hidden Treasures of Our Lives Reside on Memory Lane   Flashback Friday #27: Puppy Power x 3! Flashback Friday #26: A Siberian Snow Pup Flashback Friday #25: Siberian Sibling Pillow   ...

I can remember this Flas hback p hoto as if it was yesterday. We had just turned t he three six-month old Pupsters out to run free in the yard along with Har ley and Bandit, and Wolf took off with the wind at h is feet. The sheer joy in his face as his Siberian Husky ancestral trait of running kicked in was just amazing to see. ..and it still is!  I r ead this p oem over on PoemHunter.com and th ought it fit pe r fectly! Hope you enjoy it as well.   Lone Wolf Runs on Wilderness Tundra ~by Terence George Craddock I just am alive delighting in running in wilderness I am the lone wolf running wild on the tundra the song of the wind is freedom in my fur the song of the wing across the steeps the sky runs as my companion running water my talisman mountains my rest pillow freedom running my home freedom running life pulse * * *   To catch up on past Flashback Fridays, visit us here:   Flashback Friday #9: A Bandit Steals Our Heart...