Is this normal or has your dog done this?!?!?

HI everyone! Fenway is now almost 4 months old. He is doing great with potty training and loves to be outside and dig his holes! A couple things I have noticed lately with him, not sure if it's normal or if any other corgi has done these things.
Sometimes Fenway will move his back legs back and forth almost like he's going to charge at someone or something, but doesn't. Is he trying to tell me he's the boss? Haha, my boyfriend and I dont know what to think of it!
Also anytime we discipline our darling he likes to talk back. Is this normal??? Sometimes he'll give loud barks, other times, they are quiet, almost like he's answering us, its really weird!
Any situations like this happen to any of your corgis??? Is this behavoir normal??
Input would be awesome!!!!

thanks
kelly

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Permalink Reply by Vladimir on July 2, 2008 at 12:31am

I fostered a corgi that scrapped his feet and had a labrador who scrapped his hind feet after using the bathroom. My twin's corgi also scraps her feet after she's done using the bathroom. If I am thinking of it the same way, does it look like a bull scrapping his hind feet? If so, then that is usually a part of marking territory or, what I think, cleaning the paws after the bathroom, but at 4 months old, I would think Fenway wouldn't know about territory. Perhaps he is testing your authority or simply cleaning his pawpaws. Babies are very testy and will often try to test for dominance. My twin has a corgi, and when she was a puppy, she would test us ALL the time. The talking back thing when you tell him off, is a sign of testing for dominance. It's absolutely normal for a puppy to do that. You just need to be firm with him and keep telling him that you are the boss and it should soon settle.

BUT! Corgis barking and talking to you will never stop. My twin's corgi talks ALL the time. She doesn't talk back when we discipline her, only when we're talking to her in a playful manner or playing with toys or doing speaking tricks, etc....etc. It's very cute :-)

At 4 months old you will have a lot of this - as time goes by, and you keep training, everything will soon fall into place. Good luck! :-)

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Permalink Reply by PreciousMolly on July 3, 2008 at 7:46am

Molly does the kicking thing after going #2, but only sometimes, and only after walking some distance away. She didn't learn it on her own, she picked it up from other dogs at the "pet hotel." We've always thought it was picked up by the other dogs from cats, who try to cover it up instinctively, and then passed on to Molly. It is such a pathetic attempt too--it's quite funny actually.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly on July 3, 2008 at 4:17pm

I guess my dog is in a class by himself! All of you keep mentioning the kicking back thing after going to the bathroom or before, he does it none of those times. He NEVER does it anytime close to going to the bathroom. I havent been able to pinpoint an exact time when he does ,it's just random. But I do know that he never does it when he has to do numbers 1 or 2. So im not sure what my little darling means by the kicking bull thing he does, it's cute I do know that!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by CaptainCorgi on July 3, 2008 at 8:50pm

The scraping leg things is just another way of marking territory. All my dogs have done it. Because they have scent glands on their pads which secret a smell and they scrape it across the ground usually after they go to the bathroom.

And the talk back thing, I think ALL corgis do that! Lol! Maybe with an exception of some. They are full of cheeky-ness and sass and HAVE to have the last word!