What are some of your Corgi's Triggers ?
I know all Corgis have a myriad of verbal, aduitory and visual cues that trigger all kinds of amusing reactions. One of best triggers Gunny has is when I sit at the kitchen table paying bills . He sits by my feet watching intently.He listens carefully for when I tear a check from the check book. He will then run to the back door in anticipation of me exiting to go to my car for a trip to the bank or to the postoffice. He seems to know that he will be taking a trip in the car to a place where he often gets a snack bone( to two or three) ! They even give me bones to bring home to him when I go to the bank without him.
When he hears aluminum foil or plastic wrap being torn he runs to his food dish. Why you ask?Because I have, in the past, picked up his food dish if he has left the food uneaten for very long ( wet food gets yucky if left out) and I covered it with one of those wraps before putting it in the frig. If I tear the wrap material and his food dish happens to be empty he will whine and run around the kitchen. Bonkers!
What are some of your Corgi's amusing triggers?
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Permalink Reply by eric potempa on
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sadie hates hates hates any form of yard work. brooms lawn mowers and even taking the garbage cans out prompts a wild barking and jumping. if she hears "who is it?" she barks and runs to the door. but my absolute FAVORITE one is that she will sleep at the top of our couch which is like 5 feet off the ground, she looks like a kola bear :) ha, and if a nose wakes her she barks at it instinctively, then walking away she will bark quietly like she is grumbling under her breath and resettle down to sleep and bark quietly. its like an old man getting angry and grumbling while he settles himself again to go back to sleep. its a roit. she also has to get the last word in so she will walk away and bark under herbreath. i love her :)
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Permalink Reply by Diane Burda on
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So cute!
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Permalink Reply by Carla on
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Casey totally does this too! If she is woken up from a sound, she starts grumbling under her breath and will wander the house growling/barking until she decides she's satisfied nothing’s happening and then settles back down again. It's so soft, it's actually really cute. It's exactly like an old man grumbling.
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Permalink Reply by Cassandra on
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I love this topic! I think most such triggers are accidental. Molly has some funny ones, too.
If I or my husband is on the phone, and we say "OK, bye!" or the like she comes to attention right in front of us - apparently its Molly time.
She naturally gets excited when she hears "doggie", but we've found that "Corgi" is a trigger, too. If anything Corgi is more exciting than doggie.
And then, if I happen to pick up her toys scattered around the room, and start toward the back of the house she rushes past me to the vacuum and starts her argument with it with little growls and yips before I even get there. Somehow she always knows when its time to vacuum. And what is this thing with dogs and vacuums anyway? I started with the absolute intention of not allowing her to become one of those crazy vacuum chasing dogs, and yet, there she is!
And, despite my objections, we started out with the "no dogs on the bed rule". Now, its a mandatory nightly game that when I go to bed she jumps up, and then my husband comes in hollering "Get off the bed!" and she jumps around pouncing and charging and yipping at him. She's now defending the bed territory from him! She won't let him on until I tell her its OK! And if he picks on me she puts him in his place, too! And if I pick on him she still puts him in his place! (I love that! I keep telling him that in doggie world that means I'm the alpha, and she's second in command, and he's at the bottom of the totem pole, but he doesn't believe me! I'll let him have his delusions :)
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Permalink Reply by Chris Payerl on
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We had a "no dogs on the bed rule" too for about a month. then hubby softened up and set our first corgi on the bed with me while he brushed his teeth, etc. She was lying quite nicely getting a nice little ear rub when he walked in the room. As soon as he reached over to pull his side of the sheets back, she jumped up, marched over to his side, squatted and peed! (Even though she'd been outside about 10 min. before.) It was so purposeful and naughty but kinda funny at the same time, except that we had to strip the bed at 11:00 at night.
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Sophie goes nutty when she sees someone with a banana. She will follow them and sit at their feet, giving them the sad eyes routine, until she gets a piece of banana. It's especially odd since the first time she had banana was when she was quite ill and nothing worked to get her take her medicine, so we tried meds on banana. She also barks and runs to the door if she sees me putting make up on, since she knows that means I'm going somewhere and may take her with me.
Our first corgi used to bark and try to wriggle in between anyone sitting on the couch hugging/kissing. We thought we'd train her not to do that, but then reconsidered with a teenager in the house!!! She'd also go crazy when we'd say "grandma" or "grandpa" and run to the door in anticipation of either their arrival or a trip to their house.
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Permalink Reply by Geri & Sidney on
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LOL, I love that about the teenagers! I wonder if I can still train Sidney...
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Ha! this post about Sophie getting inbetween people cuddling on the sofa brought to mind the dog I had growing up. He was a Corgi/Beagle mix that would do the same thing, but he would growl especiallyif it was someone he didn't know. I used to use him as a way to keep unwanted advances from guys. If I didn't want to cuddle with the guy I would call Lucky up on the sofa and ineveitably he would sit between us then if the guy even so much as reached for my hand Lucky growled a very mean warning. He could look very menacing ( actually he probably would have taken a bite too if he saw me having to put up a fight)and I would just shrug my shoulders and say ": sorry I can't control him". That would usually bring the evening to an abrupt end....and assure no further dates.
On the other hand I had to make sure he was out of the room when I wanted the cuddling to happen!
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Permalink Reply by Amanda and Birdie on
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Ahh. Birdie doesn't have a thing for bananas, but if anyone is eating an apple, or applesauce, she WILL NOT LEAVE THEM ALONE. I dunno why, apples drive her nuts!
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Permalink Reply by Gizmo's mommy on
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The breeder that we got Gizmo from would give the pups Kraft Singles cheese. If I open a slice for anything he will run into the kitchen and dance on his hind legs till he gets a nibble or I give him another treat..
Also, if I'm laying in bed and Gizmo is laying on my chest and I tell him it's time to go night night he does this little whiny voice thing as to to beg for more play time.
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie on
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anything that cleans: vacuum, windex spray bottle, pledge spray bottle, broom, swiffer duster, dishwasher, washer, dryer, shaking out a new garbage bag, the commode brush, the list goes on and on
random things: towel drying my hair (the TOWEL IS EATING MY MOOOOOM!), the printer resetting itself randomly (always startles me too), power going off during a storm (they think we're being attacked by aliens I think), opening the freezer (the ice cubes live in there), a bird flying face first into the front window (only happened once, but OH the drama!), the power drill, the weedeater, the mower - again the list goes on and on...
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Oh my yes...noises are crazy triggers for the Corgi brain! Just the other day my next door neighbor was putting in an above ground pool . I was walking Gunny in the backyard and when he heard the whirrrrrrrrr of the electric screwdriver he was off like a race horse . Luckily I had him on his leash or he would have been there jumping on the holder of the drill trying to bite the darn thing! That kind of noise drives him nuts! I wonder what goes through that brain.
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