Ok you guys, it has been a CRAZY few days.  A video I posted of Fiona on YouTube went viral, and it has been a total roller coaster ride since then.  You can see the YouTube video here.  And below is a photo of her smiling about all the nice people saying warm and fuzzy things about her.

So here's the low-down: I happened to catch that moment on film a few days after I brought her home.  It never occurred to me that she hadn't seen a mirror before, and I wanted to get her used to my front room since she hadn't gone in there yet.  I took her in to play ball - an activity she loves - so she would associate the room with something positive.  I had my iPhone so I grabbed it to video the cuteness of her playing ball...and I caught her first experience with a mirror instead.  Pure kismet.

I uploaded it to YouTube so I could share it with my friends on Facebook.  I planned to upload it here this week.  I looked at the video last Thursday and it had around 300 views.  Friday morning my inbox was flooded with emails from YouTube viewers, and Fiona had received 30,000 views overnight.  By Sunday we hit 1 million, and last night we hit 2 million views in 4 days.  Crazy!!

Needless to say, things have been a bit surreal the past few days.  I was thrown in to a crash course in social media, something I thought I knew a lot about...and found out I had a whole lot more to learn.  YouTube videos aren't really something you get rich off of - even viral ones - but we will get a little something at least to put in to a rainy day vet bill fund.  (Every little bit helps!)  In the meantime, I've been fielding calls and media inquiries from around the world.  More than once I had to pinch myself and go, "Is this really happening?"  So far Fiona has appeared on The Today Show, ABC News, London Daily Mail, BBC Online, The Huffington Post, Fox News Insider, MSN, BuzzFeed, and Cute Overload, as well as many others. 

The MyCorgi community has been there for us from day one - from answering questions I had when I was picking out a puppy, to celebrating her first month with me, to getting so many great ideas to help a food-averse corgi to eat (yes - they exist!).  I am particularly grateful for those who gave me such great advice when I was stressing about this-and-that, and had the new corgi mom jitters.  They told me to trust my heart.  I'm glad I listened and I did.

I'm playing social media catch-up now (did I mention crash-course?!), and am trying to get a few things in place.  Fiona now has her own new Facebook page, and we'd be ever-so-grateful if our MyCorgi family would consider "Liking" it. 

A week or so ago I posted a blog post about Fiona's first month home, and at the end I mentioned that she had turned my life topsy-turvey.  ...I'm now thinking that may have been an understatement.  ;)