Oh, that's so cute! So Jack's grandmother on his sire's side is the sister of Potus's grandfather, also on the father's side. When we all win the lottery and have the great big Corgi Family Reunion, we can get together the cousins and they can both have a good grumble about how much they hate the vet!

Yes, Jack would have Australian relatives!  His sire is Dundee, CH Anwyl Winds O' Change.  Anwyl is an Australian kennel, but Dundee came to the US on a breeder exchange from Finland.   Dundee's pedigree is mostly Belroyd, which is an English kennel.  Here is Dundee's pedigree.  Do you see any common ancestors with Potus?

http://www.gaylordogs.com/PedigreeDundee.html

And here is Dundee's home page when he was here in the States.

http://www.gaylordogs.com/Dundee.html

This is him back in Finland:

http://www.corcin.info/12

And this is Anwyl in Australia:

http://anwylcorgis.tripod.com/about.htm

Thank you so much for the information about Potus and sedation.  He sounds just like Jack.  I have heard anecdotally that Corgis are so bad about being confined because a Corgi who didn't freak out about being crowded would have been a squished Corgi back in the days when they herded cattle.  It makes as much sense as anything and I know a lot of vets have had bad experiences with Corgis.   It's the only thing in the world Jack is bad about.  Funny thing is when he feels free to leave, he's ok with big crowds and kids poking him and a room full of wheelchairs.  But the second he feels trapped he freaks out.  Poor guy.  Thanks again, your information was very helpful and if Jack ever needs a more thorough going over I'll definitely ask if he can be sedated.  Only problem is they said it can be hard to get a blood draw when they are sedated because their blood pressure drops quite a lot.

pt. 2

Though his face and ears are all corgi, and he has a bit of terrier rough-coat and shaggy mane,  Nibbler has a real coyote look to his legs/body-carriage/tail, his molars are slightly different than a domestic dog, and his canines are way way longer and sharper than you would expect. Startlingly so. He does bark, but it is a higher-pitch than you'd expect from the size of his chest- more of a yip - but he also makes all the other, normal corgi vocalizations, too. He's super -agile : I've found him walking along our 2"wide windowsill - it's 9 feet long - even the cat can't do that - and he's been 6 feet up our tree - bum level with my head- going after a squirrel. He kinda ran at the tree and then humped it to get the little rodent. He hunts like a coyote, too - pounces with his front feet to break the back of the mouse/squirrel, then tosses them in the air like a cat - not grab and shake, like a domestic dog.

He's the cuddliest kissiest coyote ever, though - super affectionate, LOOOOVES all other dogs and kids, and is very gentle with the cats. My 24 year old moggie runs our house, an he's very respectful of her. He won't even try to eat her food - he steals shamelessly from our younger cat. Squirrels, rabbits and mice however are def. On The Menu. He's a better mouser than any cat I've ever owned.  And he's super smart, and picks up on any training in literally SECONDS. 

Honestly a perfect dog. I'm so super lucky to have found him. 

And I get the added bonus of listening to him, on clear nights,  singing back to the wild coyote pack that hunt in the fields near our house. !!!

 

Heya Potus, thanks for the interest, sorry this is a bit of a book, but he's my boy!

I call him my Coy-Gi.

Nibbler was found scavenging in municipal dump in Peace River, Alberta, Canada (google it - there's nothing much further North)  He was prob. just under a year old when he was found and rescued (winter was starting and he was not going to make it through -40 on his own)  He spent 2 months in the pound, and a year and a half in a foster home, being socialized . They were brilliant! I cannot say enough about how fantastic that foster mum was for ol Nibs. Especially since, far as anyone can figure, Nibbler is the result of a corgi-terrier cross meets up with a wild coyote-dog hybrid, so about 3/4 dog and 1/4 coyote.

Coy-dogs are not usually advisable as pets, much like wolf-dog hybrids their instincts are directly opposed to the needs of a domestic animal. 

Coy-dogs are not unusual in any isolated area here in the North, most often they hang around aboriginal communities where dogs are let run loose all the time. Opportunist coyote male takes advantage of a domestic dog in heat, and voila: coydog puppies - doesn't usually happen the other way round cause coyotes regularly gang up on and kill/eat domestic dogs. They only call truce when there's a bitch in heat. Other domestic dogs don't usually like having the coy-dogs around, and most hybrids favor the wild side, and they are def. NOT pets. They can't bark, they do high pitched yip-howl combo. When they get a bit bigger - the teenage dog stage - the other dogs will often kill them or drive them out of the area.

Nibbler is really lucky to have made it at all. 

 

Thanks 4 your comments on the pic - that is the loverly Luna as a pup. As a weird fact, don't know if you follow Sydney Australia's news, but a dear friend of ours - a Jimmy West of Jupiter, FL thru some strange twist of fate was mistaken for a James P West of Sydney - who traveled here for Thanksgiving!!!!!! It's making all the news. Great story tho. Loved your bit about the floors - we call ours "distressed!"

I would love the name of the breeder please. Stilll looking for my girl. Thanks. Lynn

GREAT NAME! I love it!

yes they both look comfy on their chairs.

Thanks for the help!( Im only 10) So Mum and i are looking into the vet to help us search or something. The info will come to good use!!!

Regards, Rachel & Goldie

Just wanted to say thank you very much for the seat harness recommendation. My pup is a bit small for the harness and is a bit confused by it, but I really like how secured he is

Hi Im A victorian in Melbourne My little Puppy Goldie Is becoming to get old and we want her to be a mother.......... Now only if its ok with u if your Potus is Male Because He looks like 1 Please comment back and look at Goldie She's older than she looks in the photos i have but plzzzzz comment back and if you want we can sort something out.
Hopefully they will meet and like eachother

From Rachel & Goldie

I live in Victoria too im in the undocked tails group. Without their tails there is less personality. And its cute too its like a little fox tail.

I was born at the Crown Street Royal Hospital for Women, Surry Hills. My parents separately immigrated to Sydney from Europe in 1945. They met, got married, and then immigrated to the U.S. - San Francisco in late 1957. I went back to Sydney when I turned 25yrs to visit my Godfather and Aunt/Uncle who were living there at the time. I still have a great fondness for Australia - I often wonder what life would've been like had I grown up there. I look forward to sharing corgi stories with you and your precious boy! Sophie was my first dog too. Would love to hear the Potus story...Cheers...

Oddly, we get the same thing here. It's kind of a Mediterranean climate: steady drizzle for 8 months, then nothing for 4. The Seattle megalopolis has totally outgrown its water supply, so we can't water lawns or anything, and it all gets brown and dry. Now, everything's already getting mildewy again.

Thanks. We're lucky here on the west side of the Cascade mountains; no scorpions or venomous snakes. There are Pacific timber rattlesnakes and scorpions on the dry east side, but only active in the hot summer months.
We had a visiting teacher from Down Under here on a field trip when a student got bitten on the finger by a small rattler. She took it very, very seriously and I thought she was over-reacting until I remembered that you have much more serious reptiles down there.
We pay for our benign climate with nearly constant drizzle 8 months a year. Makes me wish *I* had fur.

Happy Belated Birthday Potus!.... from Dash.

the 19th huh? wow, my mum's b-day is the 18th! we're all libras!!!