Hi! Welcome. Shippo is crazy photogenic! Fluffy's are adorable.

Great photographs and very beautiful corgi.

Welcome Cheetah and Shippo!

Welcome Cheetah and Shippo!

Welcome ! Shippo is just beautiful, and I love his name! :]

Shippo is a very handsome man! Your pictures are wonderful! Welcome to MyCorgi!

Shippo is gorgeous. I love the fluffies!

Shippo's fluff is beautiful! He looks so very soft :)

hello!! You have a very pretty doggy! Here are some of the events that we've participated in around Denver...

You can register for Barker Days online. They're closing the waterpark for the year and opening it to dogs.
http://www.parkeronline.org/recreation/barker_days.aspx

There's also the WagNTrail in Sept down in Castle Rock that is a fundraiser for the DDFL shelter down there.
http://ddfl.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1040&pg=entry

The DDFL also puts on a great event in the Spring called Furry Scurry down in Washington Park. It is a blast!

Cheetah is a wonderful looking fluffy!! My Lilly is considered a fluffy, but she is not as 'fluffy' as Cheetah.
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What a cutie you have there! His hair is so long! I actually once saw a picture on the web from a woman who french braided the hair on her fluffy's tush - Shippo could do that, too! Haha! BTW, where did you get his name? He's adorable.

what is the difference between our pembroke welsh corgis how come yours has the amazing cuddly fuzzy hair haha it is so adorable! is it also breaded with something else ?

Shippo is a "Fluffy" Pembroke Welsh Corgi. He's absolutely purebred. Check this link out for more info:
http://pwcca.org/Fluffy.html

Hello from one Fluffy owner to another... from Carson & Logan

I am enjoying your cheetah blog!

Shippo is beautiful! Congrats on getting him in the 2009 calendar.

Shippo is absolutely gorgeous!

Happy Birthday Shippo!!! Have a great Day!

Shippo is beautiful, looks like a mini-Shelty. He must feel positively decadent when he's combed-out. Not sure I'd want to do the extra grooming -- Al & Gwynnie come home from a wet day on the trail with their belly-fur full of sand -- Shippo must look like the happiest dog in the world when he's been digging in the dirt, huh? :)
The links you posted re. the fluffy gene don't work. I'd be interested -- idle professional curiosity, I work in a medical genetics lab -- I know people don't usually breed fluffies, so I've wondered why it hasn't been bred-out, even though it's recessive presumably. I asked our breeder about this, and I think she said they now have a DNA test for the fluffy variant(!) Such tests can be simple -- when you know exactly what you're looking for -- but discovering what to look for is a huge job, and I'd be surprised if somebody did all that work.
I believe they were sequencing the entire canine genome here at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center here in Seattle because dogs have the same genes we do, and there's this huge wealth of pedigree information (our lab worked on a hereditary blood disease that also shows up in grey collies).

Combing Al & Gwynn is enough of a job for me, but fluffies sure are beautiful... and if Al & Gwynn were fluffs, my wife could spin their fur into yarn -- I could have a corgi-fur sweater and smell like a wet dog! :)

thanks for the link. Most interesting. I am AMAZED that they can do that for $50. It is a LOT of work to map a gene, although it's more and more automated these days. The wealth of pedigree info helps a lot. I'm still curious: a real cheap test like that is good for one KNOWN mutation -- like, for cystic fibrosis, maybe 2/3 of all cases are cause by one single mutation descended from one single founder, very simple to detect -- but recessive genes are usually ANY code damage that inactivates the gene -- often a stop codon that truncates the protein prematurely -- so to find all of them you have to sequence the whole gene, a lot of work, and even that doesn't find them all.

I think they're working on other things in dogs like the spinal neurodegeneration thing, too.

Sounds like Fluffy is a standard Mendelian recessive. Since fluffies are so common, I'd wondered if it wasn't something that cannot be bred out. Like in whippets, there are "bully" whippets, homozygous for the gene, too muscular to be good races, and "wimpy" whippets, homozygous for the other allele, too weak. Only the heterozygotes are the best racers, so you can't breed out the bullies and wimpies. Breed a bully to a wimpy, and all the pups should be good racers.

There was a cover photo on the journal SCIENCE not long ago -- a great Dane next to a Chihuahua -- the size variation is 50x, greater than in any other known species. Somebody found out why: it's a growth inhibitor receptor highly active in dwarf breeds and downgraded or deleted in big breeds.

We sometime visit our breeder, just to squeeze some puppies. There usually are a few fluffies, and I have to make sure I'm heavily sedated so I don't take one home.... hooray for fluffies and dwarf dogs.

Nice action shots of Shippo.

Thank you Cheetah! You and Shippo have an awesome day too :)