More photos and a Corgi limerick on our blog, The Chronicles of…

So proud of my fluffy boy, Jon Farleigh! After nine months of training and hard work, he tested yesterday for AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) and was certified.  Now we have the foundation to move on to therapy certification.  YAY!

BTW -  His merle brother, Dewi, is still working on his manners and if all goes as planned, will take the CGC test in May.

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After a few minutes of searching for him the other day, we discovered Dewi stuck on the stairs.

Not a big deal really, except that he had been stuck for about 10 minutes like this:

Only ONE step from the bottom!

Oh, the humiliation.…

1/8 - UPDATE: The licking has begun. :(  Cone of shame is not going to cut it; headed to Petsmart to find a donut (because Petco doesn't have any).

Jon Farleigh underwent the "procedure" yesterday. This is how he looked last night:

Can you say "grouchy"?

(He was determined to show Dewi that he was still higher in the pack and…

Today, on the first day of January, the first day of a new year and a new decade, my beautiful fluffy first Corgi -  Jon Farleigh - celebrates his first BIRTHDAY!…

One goes to great pains (despite desperately pitiful facial expressions and pleas from one's corgis and close family members) to prevent one's long-backed corgi babies from becoming overindulged during the holidays. (Because one knows that overindulgent corgis turn into chunky corgi monkeys.) 

HOWEVER, no matter how hard one tries, one cannot - for the life of oneself - apply the same tough corgi-love logic to one's own overindulgent self.  [Chunky monkey junky…

Merry Christmas

and

Happy Winter…

....panted Dewi with childlike wonder. To which Jonny innocently replied, "Yeah, Dew, I think it is."

Oh, to be a well-fed Corgi with his best bud in a blanket of fluffy new snow.…

Spent a good two hours this morning trying to get a nice, respectable holiday photo of Jon and Dewi in front of the fireplace. [silence] With my point and shoot camera. [silence] Took about 70 photos. Not one decent photo in the bunch. Nope. In fact, it was like a two-hour obedience lesson gone horribly awry. (sit, stay, down, stay, sit, down, STAY!) I quit after this picture. …

Just wanted to share these photos from last Saturday's parade in Middleburg, VA. Dewi's breeder took Dewi's mother (blue merle) and sister (black) (pictured below). (I'm hoping to make it in 2011!) There were 60+ corgis (Corgi Corps) all together!

Click below to see the photo gallery (go to pages 3-4, starts with photo #25).…

What my husband is getting for Christmas from Jon and Dewi...

The following scenes were reinacted:

Jon to Dewi: "I double-dog dare you."

Dewi to Me:…

Over the river,

And through the woods -

(Historic Rt. 5 in Charles City, VA)

To our doggy vacation place in the country we go.

(Just some of our friends on the fun farm. No,…