Although I agree that corgi's are smart dogs (maybe it's the herding thing) and well able to problem solve, it turns out that it's not the corgi in the family that's the smart one, but Dax, the Newfoundland. She's so smart it can be a problem, because if she wants something and has decided that she should have it, with her great size and strength she's almost impossible to stop. When we first got her, we put her in our kennel outside one afternoon to keep her out of harms way while mowing the lawn. It took her about 2 minutes to get out, which she did by somehow untwisting the wires that held the chain link to the metal poles in the ground. I still have no idea how she actually accomplished this. She will also open the greenhouse door to get to our homegrown tomatoes, and has raided our cucumber patch, eating every single cucumber. Why, oh why doesn't she just satisfy herself with the zucchini? Sigh.

As I wrote earlier, she would feed corgi puppy Pixel apples to keep him from bothering her constantly. She had a few other tricks as well. Since she can open our sliding glass door, she would sometimes open the door and let him out to play on the deck. And for a while, Pixel was able to go down our stairs but was too little to get up them. During this window of time, she would sometimes deliberately have Pixel follow her downstairs and then leave him there, while she simply turned around and went back upstairs to sleep in peace.

When they would play fight, she had a wonderful trick that we called "the puppy roll" where she would put her nose under Pixel's belly (it just barely fit) and would flip him over onto his back. This was so cute, and was nice because there wasn't really all that much she could do when playing with him. She would play bite him (difficult, because he would almost fit his entire body in her mouth), but she couldn't really hit him with her paws or wrestle with him because she outweighed him by more than 100 lbs. She was always very gentle - and I sure can't say the same for him. He would chew on her unmercifully! He was the boss and did whatever he wanted, and even now I can't say for sure which of them is actually in charge.