Tap Dancing Corgi

This is a really adorable dancing Corgi, dancing for his noms.  Turn the sound up and enjoy.

http://youtu.be/yD3yVwC0fjg

Fair Weather Friends

Normally my dogs are brave pups.  However, they really hate stormy weather. 

Especially THUNDER.

There are times that the dogs impress me.  A workman (STRANGER) may be in the house and if the STRANGER gets a little too close to me, the dogs will jump into action.  They will get between me and the STRANGER and growl.  However, don't let it  THUNDER.  

Then you are on your own.

Last night, I could not find Serenity anywhere.  It had been THUNDERING and she usually hauls it to the basement and hides out in one of the bedrooms downstairs.  Not last night.  I found her in my backroom office where she moved several boxes around and got herself under the desk.  She finally stuck her head out and looked at me as if to say “is it safe yet?”  Amazing how a medium sized dog can move boxes around and get herself into a small space under the desk.  Emma, on the other hand, sits close at hand and growls every time it THUNDERS.   STRANGERS beware. 

Fatty Fatty

Poor puppy.  If there were five bowls of food on the floor, Emma would try and get to all of them.  The picture of the Corgi to the far left looks like Emma. 

The Many Breeds of Corgis??

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In honour of the Royal Wedding

The wedding finally arrived.  In honour of the Royal Wedding, what is more British than Pembroke Welsh Corgis.  Here are several photos I found on the web of Corgis dressed for the occasion.  Check out the special Corgi Cake that was made in honour of the Wedding (Freeview HD).

Royal Guards 

Princess Corgi 

Prince Corgi

 The Freeview HD corgis celebrate with a Guinness world record cake (world's largest dog cake).  Note the large dog's necklace (Prince and Princess photos). 

Queen for a day

Opps, the real Queen and her princess pups

Ah, another royal Corgi

Time to blow your coat

Spring.  Time for the dogs to blow their coats.  Especially my Siberian Husky, Serenity.  It is a shame because in the Fall and Winter, Serenity has the most beautiful thick and soft hair.  All those layers of thick undercoat.  This explains why she can lay in the snow and sleep on the couch on the back porch during the winter.  However, as the weather warms up, the shedding begins.  It almost looks like winter wonderland in my house.  Dog hair everywhere.  Falling out.  I have sheets on furniture right now to keep the hair-tastrophy from spreading everywhere.  She is not allowed in the bedroom because of all the loose hair.  We have been brushing her several times a day.  Does she like it?  Of course not.  Serenity does not like being brushed.  She will sit for a while and unless we keep praising her, she runs out the dog door.  The picture to the left is an example of one day's worth of hair.  Only a few more days to go. 

Knick Knack Paddy Whack

I swear, this is going to be Emma's new theme song.  I have never seen a dog so obsessed with food as she is...she is going to explode one of these days. 

Emma and her siblings

I came across this photo of Emma and her siblings from a few years ago. Unfortunately, Jake (Schipperke) and Sean (Fluffy Corgi) have passed away.  We had a full house there for a while. 

Cheese Please

We have a routine at the house that every morning Emma gets a piece of cheese before I leave for work. After a night of guarding the home front, and making sure no rhinos have gotten into the house, she gets her reward. However, if you knew Emma, food is the first and foremost thing on her mind. Love that Emma.

Watching the World Go Bai...

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"A Christmas Corgi Bodacious Bone Bonanza" by Cathy Santarsiero (the Christmascorgi.blogspot.com)

At first, the Corgis felt a strange sort of kinship, if you will, with the fossil of the giant carnivore. Perhaps it was because they could relate to her short little arms. No one could say. It didn't take long, however, for them to become mesmerized at the fact that there were many VERY big bones in front of them, merely a few feet away. The temptation proved too great. The agility Corgis were the first over the railing, swiftly followed by the rest. "All hell broke loose," said the museum guard who was found tied up in the broom closet behind the Egyptian artifacts. The Corgis were released to their owners. The judge ordered them back to obedience school until they learn how to behave in public. The museum guard is still in therapy but is expected to make a complete recovery.

Prayers for Japan

The Caretaker of the Celtic-Corgi continues her prayers on behalf of the people and all of God's creatures in Japan. 

For Teachers » Photos of the Day! All About the Dogs!

For Teachers » Photos of the Day! All About the Dogs!

Foothills Animal Shelter - Adopt a Pet

Foothills Animal Shelter is one of the leading adoption facilities and educational resources for animal care in the state of Colorado. As an open-admissions shelter (never turning away an animal) and one of the largest animal shelters in the metro Denver area, we take in nearly 10,000 animals each year. The Shelter’s adoption rate is exceptional and in 2008, exceeded the average of the seven largest animal shelters in the Denver area. Foothills Animal Shelter is a true community resource that offers a broad variety of animal welfare programs and services. Low-cost spaying/neutering, vaccinations, microchipping and dog licensing are some of the services offered to the public.

Additionally, Foothills Animal Shelter works closely with your city’s animal welfare officers across Jefferson County to keep our neighborhoods safe, educate the community and protect innocent animals. Golden, Morrison, Mt. View, Edgewater, Westminster, Arvada, Lakewood, unincorporated Jefferson County and Wheat Ridge are all communities served by the Shelter. 

Contact Information:  http://www.foothillsanimalshelter.org/
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Everyone is Irish on March 17th

Happy Birthday To You

Dog Property Laws

1. If I like it, it's mine.  

2. If it's in my mouth, it's mine.

3. If I can take it from you, it's mine.  
4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.   
5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.   
6. If I'm chewing something up, all the pieces are mine.

7. If it just looks like mine, it's mine.   
8. If I saw it first, it's mine.   
9. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine. However,  

10. IF IT'S BROKEN, IT'S YOURS!!

Famous Pemmies and their owners

Famous Pemmies!!!  The Queen of England owns many Pembroke Welsh Corgis (and is said to have owned over 30 Corgis over the years) (see photo below).  Other Corgi owners include the Governor of California, Jerry Brown (photo below); and some fun photos of the cast of Corgis from the movie "The Queen..."  (Stephen King is a Corgi owner). 

 

Corgi Tetherball game3

The Legend of the Welsh Corgi

By Anne Biddlecombe

Would you know where corgis came from?
How they came to live with mortals?
On the mountains of the Welsh-land in its green and pleasant valleys,
Lived the peasant folk of old times,
Lived our fathers and grandfathers;
And they toiled and laboured greatly with their cattle and their Ploughing,
that their women might have plenty.
And their children journeyed daily with the kine upon the mountain,
Seeing that they did not wander,
Did not come to any mischief,
While their fathers ploughed the valley and their mothers made the cheeses.

'Til one day they found two puppies
Found them playing in a hollow, playing like a pair of fox-cubs.
Burnished gold their coat and colour,
Shining like a piece of satin -
Short and straight and thick their fore-legs, and their heads like a fox's
But their eyes were kind and gentle;
Long of body these dwarf-dogs and without a tail behind them.

Now the children stayed all day there,
And they learned to love the dwarf-dogs, shared their bread and water with them,
took them home with them even.
Made a cosy basket for them,
Made them welcome in the kitchen,
Made them welcome in the homestead.

When the men came home at sunset, saw them lying in the basket,
Heard the tale the children told them, how they found them on the mountain,
found them playing in the hollow -

They were filled with joy and wonder and said it was a fairy present,
Was a present from the wee folk, for their fathers told a legend
How the fairies kept some dwarf-dogs.
Called them Corgis - Fairy heelers:

Made them work the fairy cattle, Made them pull the fairy coaches,
Made them steends for fairy riders,
Made them fairy children's playmates;
Kept them hidden in the mountains,
Kept them hidden in the mountains shadow,
Lest the eye of mortal see one.

Now the Corgis grew and prospered,
And the fairies' life was in them, in the lightness of their movement,
In the quickness of their turning,
In their badness and their goodness.
And they learnt to work for mortals,
Learnt to love their mortal masters,
Learnt to work their masters' cattle,
Learnt to play with mortal children.
Now in every vale and hamlet, in the valleys and the mountains,
From the little town of Tenby, by the Port of Milford Haven,
To St. David's Head and Fishguard, in the valley of the Cleddau,
On the mountains of Preselly,
Lives the Pembrokeshire Welsh Corgi,
Lives the Corgi with his master.

Should you doubt this ancient story,
Laugh and scoff and call it nonsense, look and see the saddle markings where the fairy warriors rode them (As they ride them still at midnight, on Midsummer's Eve at midnight, When the mortals are all sleeping!