It's January. We're in what passes for the Northern hemisphere. Unless the Human is sadly mistaken, it's the middle of the freakin' winter!

But Cassie the Corgi, Queen of the Universe and Empress of All Time, Space, and Eternity,i is already blowing her coat.

I've always thought that birds decided when to migrate, honeybees decided when to swarm, and fierce little dogs decided when to shed according to the length of daylight hours in any given…

Now, I think this pose looks like a plate of tamales:

How adorable can you get, eh? One of these  little tamales is soon to be the Queen of the Universe's new roommate. Won't she be surprised?!

The Queen has still got a lot of ginger in her for a seven-year-old dowager. We actually jogged almost a full mile last night -- no mean feat for a dog…

Check ' em out: SEVEN brand-new corgi pups, arrived on this earth last night:

How amazing is that, eh? :-D

Breeder Lindsay Waldrep reports that all seven appear to be healthy and well -- at least at this early moment -- and they all appear to be red and white, like the Queen herself. There are…

Lately, I've been thinking the Queen of the Universe is looking a little on the sylph-like side...as in...maybe too thin?

She weighed 25 pounds when I got her from the pound. At that time, the vet opined that because she (the vet) thought she (the queen) was a little small for a corgi, she might be a little heavy for her size.

Her Royal Highness eats real food (not processed dog food, for reasons that I will refrain from elaborating because I don't feel like writing…

The human spent the holidays sick as a dog, trying to keep up with work on a laptop perched on the bed, day after endless day. The Queen of the Universe, as ever attentive to the underlings, reclined in her chamber, keeping an eye on the creature.

Her Exalted Highness in the Royal Bedchamber

More recently, the Queen's relative…