This is the screensaver on my computer. Summer 2005. Everywhere we went, people would say" "Oooooooh, is that a CORGI puppy?" It was so funny. Then we met a lot of people who said "Oh, I have a Corgi, but we left him/her at home." We had entered a new world of being Corgi owners.

Wafl was the sweetest puppy. No whining, took to kennel readily, chased our two cats only in the most gentle way, and very outgoing with people and animals. I read that dogs can have a vocabulary of 2000 words, and was determined to teach him a few hundred. He's learned a lot, but he's also grown up a lot since - and his dark side can show...