RR is a gorgeous corgi.  I suspect his misbehavin' results from nurture, not Nature.

Many of the finest-looking, best-behaved dogs I see in the neighborhood are from the pound.  What's been learned can sometimes be unlearned, deleted, overwritten.

Yes Wendy I think our husband's would get along great! The advantage I have is that Misty is 7 years old. Hmm maybe that is not an advantage since she probably is not going to improve. I am beginning to wonder what my bedspread would look like with appliques... remember those? My disadvantage is that she is very tall and 70 lbs!

Hi Lucy,

Just saw a few comments.   Sorry I haven't responded but I'm not quite sure how his "My Corgi.com" works . . . apparently.  I don't even remember making the "Thalidimide" comment but sounds like me.

 

Ziggy is doing great, I'm appreciating her more and more as she gets a bit older.  She had very big paws to fill from my last Corgi.  Glad to see the publicity they're getting from the Governor's house AND the new movie with Colin Firth and Jeffrey Rush.

 

Take care.  Rafa is a good looking Pembroke, that's for sure.

Lost my comment to a glitch. Rafa, a mystery. Al & Gwynn have been painless; maybe this shows what careful breeding and puppy-rearing is worth. Only objectionable corgis I've met were rescues; who knows their experiences? Carrie Hale's (Haley) litters were in her dining room. Rafa is gorgeous, I hope he makes the cut. Maybe there is just one thing he needs to learn.
You ABSOLUTELY MUST see Lilo & Stitch. Stitch (Experiment 626) is a dog, also an extraterrestrial madman's illegal genetic experiment bioengineered with superhuman powers and one overriding instinct: to destroy everything it touches!!! Stitch & Rafa were made for each other. I think Pixar Studios was somewhat independent from Disney; it's not free of Disney's usual faults but I've watched it several times.
If you succeed in civilizing The Creature, you should put some time and thought into a thorough post of the experience.
How old was he when you got him? How old is he now? Is this just adolescent madness (Al went through a teenager phase)?

Go to the Kodak website; they have a really good tutorial on photography.  I taught photography in Jr. High School; their "10 Top Tips" was the core of the curriculum.  #1 is simply, "Get Close!" (easy to do when you can crop pics so easily on computer).  Photoeditors all have an auto-correction button for exposure/contrast (still best to do it right the first time).  Rule of Thirds.  You can become a better-than-95% photographer with about an hour's study.  You already know one trick with the dogs:  get your subject engaged in something.

Helps to have supercute dogs, too.

Gee, If you were not so far away I would drop our dobe off to you! Misty ate a hole in my bedspread the other night so she and Raf might have a few things in common. She has gone 6 months not eating anything since we started letting her sleep in our room at night instead of her kennel. Agh, Never planned on a 70 lb dog with issues at this time in my life and my husband is still a little annoyed about her residency.

Is that Doug Klassen of Gromit 7 Doug who turned you on to the Rafanator? 

Where did this lovable little monster come from?  Same place as Experiment 626 (if you've not seen Lilo & Stitch, please do so, charming, only Disney movie I've ever liked)?

RR truly is a gorgeous dog.

Wendy...talking about growling...our last pup that we still have was growling and barking at the coyotes the other night...good thing he was in the fence as he might have tried running out of the yard after them...he has no idea and we never know exactly how close /far they are:(

 

Maybe little Ricky wants a Doberman to play with!

7th-9th graders are the worst (that's when I was getting into trouble).  They should just wipe them all out, except that makes the future of the species problematic.  Maybe humanity would be better off without teenagers.  Al went through a phase where he'd figured out that he did not, in fact, have to come when I called him inside, and that I could not catch him, and he DELIGHTED in this game;  I was utterly humiliated, helpless.  He ran circles around me, making personal remarks.  And then eventually it all just stopped... but not before I'd gotten out my imaginary shotgun.

I must add that some of my best, as well as my worst experiences were in classrooms.

Great, I sure hope RickiRafa can be deterred from a life of crime.  He reminds me from some kids I knew in my mercifully short career as a middle/Jr. high school teacher, one of whom -- perhaps the one kid I most never wanted to see ever again -- I encountered a year or so later while subbing at the high school, and he had somehow, miraculously, grown up!!

I wish you success, else you may have to send him off to Wolffie's Wilderness Boot Camp for Wayward Corgis.

20 years ago, if anybody suggested I'd one day be walking around the neighborhood with a fannypack full of dog poop and even thinking about a dog show, I'd have asked them if they had anymore of that good stuff they were smoking.  We've done a few corgi group things that were fun -- herding trials, and there's a summer party -- all those corgis together -- Lori doesn't think Al could handle the big dog-pack thing though (Gwynnie has a faintly piratical scar on her snout from the last one).  Sure fun though.

Al's got Nebriowa Double Exposure, Blossom Dearie and Vangard Centerline.  So Lucy's family, she gets to sleep on the bed when she comes visit.  

This is making me want to go to a corgi show sometime.  Someday I'm gonna do a parody dog-show pic of Al or Gwynn on a mountaintop, all stacked, with a ribbon made of survey tape and a knotted bootlace for a show-leash.

ps...I will write a longer message later... have to be to work early in the am:(

Wendy...I'm sorry sorry for you and Ricky...I hope a trainer does the trick! I'll send positive thoughts your way for a new and well behaved Ricky!!!!

Yeah, the Rafanator is like your friends' children; you get to enjoy them but seldom see the tantrums...

OK Wendy...what did I miss about Rafa????

I took that pic of me & Al in the tent, at arm's lentth, so it's kinda fake.  We were alone.  But I CAN use him as a pillow!  Someday, I'll have somebody document the Two-Dog-Night-with-Only-One technique:  two snouts sticking out of a mummy bag.

Yup, that's him.  Flash (Double Exposure) is Al's great-grandsire on BOTH maternal and paternal lines, so as close as his great-grandsire.  Al and Lucy are distant cousins.  Gwynnie too.

I work in a medical genetics lab.  I'm used to Western human pedigrees.  These dog pedigrees look like a drunken electrician's wiring diagrams! 

Al tells The RafaRickinator to straighten up and fly right.

 

So Lucy's from Nebriowa?  I just dug out Al's pedigree for the first time.  He's got some Nebriowa (Double Exposure is both his maternal and paternal great-granddaddy, and a Vanguard Centerline in there).  So Al, Gwynnie and Lucy are probably related more closely than most corgis.