Corgi Puppy Friday!
Ginger!
(Who is still the master of the sadpuppyeyes, awwww.)
Soooooo barooooootiful.
Cardigan Corgi pile nap time!
Silly dogs, sofas are for… okay, you guys. I’ll just go here and sit on the floor. ;)
First of all - I admit, I can’t figure out how to do stuff on Tumblr to save my life. So a huge shout out to Corgiaddict, who is awesome, and you should totally be watching for your daily Corgi fix. I do! I love looking at pictures of other people’s dogs! (And Pudge is da Fluffy Bomb, he is. XD)
Aw, I’ve had now a couple of messages asking me if my dogs are Corgi mixes - nope, they are all purebred corgis - 3 are Cardigan Welsh Corgis, and one Pembroke (Riley.) Cardigans come in two extra colors in the show standard than Pembroke Corgis — they come in blue merle and brindle. The brindle (which is what Caleb here is) varies in shade from almost a black to a seal brown to - well, this color, which they call red-brindle. Some folks call it “copper” brindle. To be honest, it’s not often you see a dog like Caleb, with the red base being super bright, and the black being very black against the coat. Cardigan Corgi trivia for the day part two! :D (I love talking about this breed, they’re fantastic and relatively unknown dogs, but very very different than Pembrokes!)
He is all Corgi though, I promise! :D And sorta derpy. His nickname here at the house and among my show dog friends is “The Zoolander,” he’s all pretty boy and he sure knows it!
As much as I love showing off Simon, I adore Caleb just as much. He is a very hamsome Cardigan with a FANTASTIC coloring. When I was first researching Cardigans, I thought all of them had brindle points / coloring like Caleb. But nope! Caleb is pretty rare and he knows it!
Monte, approaching full derp.
The weather is finally nice, so he got the three tennis ball treatment.
“What’s that?” You say, wondering what I could possibly make Monte do with three tennis balls that he won’t do with one.
Well for one, he doesn’t drop a tennis ball, for hardly anything. And that includes stinky (salmon) treats. It makes it hard to keep him running around the yard because if I chase him to get the ball he likes it, then when he wants a break he hides in the bushes.
If I have three tennis balls, well, then we activate Monte’s weakness.
No matter what, he will chase the ball.
If he has one, and wants to do a “flyby” (when I tell him to bring the ball to me and he cruises past, just out of reach) all I do is throw another ball to the opposite part of the yard and he sprints after it.
He can carry more than one toy in his mouth, and does, but more than one tennis ball is hard. So I just do this and collect the other two, keeping him running around the yard.
And there you go. The result: full derp.
An awesome and cunning trick to keeping a corgi who loves chasing balls forever busy!
Cardigan Corgi races! Go, Simon, go!
(Chased by his friends Caleb and Bella!)
Simon. Your face. It’s so precious.
Corgi Puppy Friday!
This is Temperance’s full brother, Bleu. He’s SO fluffy! ;) (And yes, he is a Cardigan Corgi. He’s a fluffy, which is a coat fault, but so, so, so darn adorable. And he still had baby ears in this picture — the ears on many Cardis don’t stand up until they’re 12-16 weeks old. Cardigan Corgi trivia for the day! :D)
…. this is my dream Cardigan. Fluffy. Blue merle. Heterochromic. BEAUTIFUL! LOOK AT HIM!
I get my thing in action
To be, to see, to feel, to live
And I put my heart in action
To run, to go, to get, to give!(Apologies to Schoolhouse Rock!
I totally admit it. Every time Simon takes off running like this that song gets stuck in my head… it’s those little legs churning up the miles! Older photo- his foot’s fine, honest. He broke a toe somehow, and it had to be sports taped up for a month. Didn’t stop him in the slightest, the hardest part was slowing him down!)
Of course, then there’s the other side of Valentine’s Day. You know, the sort of Valentine’s day we all had as little kids.
Temperance: I wuvvvv youuuuuuu sooo much!
Caleb: What? EWWWWW, girl cooties!!!
this is marco’s sister (really - same litter). She is a deaf cardigan corgi. her ears are back in the photo. She often has them relaxed, since she’s not really using them like a regular corgi: this is her aerodynamic look. Marco is a blue merle - maybe we should call her a white merle since she has one spot of tan and grey by her eye and one spot of grey on her rump. Oh and her polka dotted nose!
Even with the deafness, she’s still perfect.
