Hello Puppies. Before I begin today’s post, I would like to say another big big THANK WOO to everyone for supporting us while we help all our special Siberians. We are thrilled to be able to help these Sibes return to good health and find new families who will take better care of them.

On to the news of the week. Do you remember last fall, in the early days of our blog, reading what my papa wrote about the happy tail of Rickee? Well, Rickee is one lucky pup to have a family that adores him and takes such good care of him, but this week they went on vacation, which means we get to hang out with Rickee!

Rickee’s family has been giving him all the best senior care as well as daily trots around the neighborhood to help him continue to lose weight. He was 110 pounds when we first met him in August and now he is down to 85 pounds. Rickee loves being an only dog and getting all the attention from his people.

You have been following the story of Jasper and his heartworm treatment. Recently he spent a night at the vet on oxygen just to make sure he was getting enough despite all his coughing. He is back at home and still resting.

Just this week we took in another dog named Dawkin who has the early stages of glaucoma and we are rushing to save his beautiful blue eyes so that he will not have to lose them.

There is good news among all these challenges.

Standing Stone Media and a “secret” sibe-loving friend have issued a challenge – They will match any donation for our special needs sibes dollar for dollar up to $3500.00!!!!!! Woo Woo!!!!

So now we need all the help we can get. Tell your humans to click the “Make a Donation” button in the sidebar or visit our website to read more and make a donation from there. We try not to beg too often, but right now we really need it and whatever donation you can manage will count double! MaPaw sends out a big THANK WOO to Standing Stone Media, our anonymous friend, and all of you, who I know will give what you can.

What does this return address say? It is from the Army of Four! How exciting!Mama helped me open it because I am not allowed to use knives. The first thing I found was cardboard, my favorite! I began chewing on it immediately. Mama wrestled it out of my mouth and told me it is a card. What good is a card(board) if I cannot eat it?Mama distracted me by pulling out this bag that said “Sniffies for Magnum” and had four tufts of fur each labeled with names from the Ao4. Cool! Mmmm! This one smelled like such a sweet, lovable, red-headed girl I could just eat it! So I did. Mama wrestled that out of my mouth as well.This is fun. What else is in here? Whoa, a big bag of collars and leashes! I can use these on my foster dogs.Maximus likes the purple ones.
This red one looks just like mine (with the tags) but a lot of them are limited slip collars, which are great for the troublesome Siberians who try to back out of the lead.

Thank Woo so much Ao4!

Hi Puppies, Magnum here showing my support for Jasper’s recovery. Someone recently donated this giant bed and, since I am a giant Husky, we got to use it at our house.
After my demonstration Jasper gaved it a try. He is a natural at sleeping on the giant bed.

Jasper visited the vet this week for his second round of heart worm treatment. The vet said his coughing will probably get even worse now, which is hard to imagine. For the next month he is supposed to do nothing but rest. That means no walks for a month. Poor Jasper. Actually, it is nice for the rest of us because we can walk at our pace instead of slowing down to Jasper pace.

Jasper got right to work sleeping. He likes to get up, cough, get a drink, cough, and find a new spot to sleep just for variety.

Keep your paws crossed for him. This is the toughest part of recovery.

Hi Puppies! Last weekend MaPaw made a big appearance at the Greater Philadelphia Pet Expo. I did not make a personal appearance, but plenty of MaPaw dogs hung out there howling, shedding, and generally drawing a crowd. Plenty of people came to pet Huskies, talk about Huskies, buy Husky merchandise, and donate to rescue Huskies. Below is Meeka modeling our new donation vests. Meeka, like me, was rescued through MaPaw and now helps the dogs still looking for forever homes. He was quite pleased that people were paying him simply for being his wonderous self.

While there, the MaPaw folks got to visit with a bunch of other rescue folks, and Rocky and Buck even met a couple Alpacas! It was a great way to kick off our meet and greet season. We can only hope they will all be so successful.

Hi puppies, Magnum here. Those of you who have been following for a little while know that when one puppy gets adopted, another quickly fills the void. There are always a couple puppies on the waiting list to come into MaPaw. So of course when Chena joined her new family (I have heard she and Kenai are doing great!) less than 24 hours passed before I got meet Maximus.

Maximus is an extra large Husky, just like I am. He got along with everyone here right from the beginning. He does have something in common with Jasper though, he has only one eye. Maximus lived with a family for six years before glaucoma caused his right eye to become swollen and sightless, at which point they dropped him at the local shelter. The shelter called MaPaw about this beautiful Siberian in need of medical attention, and we jumped to take care of him. As you can see, his “special need” does not slow him down at all.