Buzz was always underfoot. Even when he was healthy and mobile. Most especially when I was in the kitchen (those of you in the crowd who share your lives with corgis will be thinking "well, duh!").
Wibbs is a much more independent dog.
As far as we know, he was stray for the first year of his life, and he keeps his own council, far more than any other dog we've had, about what to do, where to be, what to think.
I keep wondering what is *wrong* with him, since he's not underfoot. I have to keep reminding myself that he never has been underfoot the way Buzz was, and that his behavior probably hasn't changed.
To tell the truth, I wasn't as aware of where he was as I was with Buzz, not only because he is more likely to be ... somewhere else ... but because he will ask to go out rather than having to be taken at frequent intervals, and also, I think, because there was such a strong Dog Presence in my immediate vicinity that I didn't think about how many dogs were right near by.
Now the Dog Presence in my immediate vicinity is much less, and I notice, and it is odd.
This is Wilbur, on the couch in the living room, while I was making my supper in the kitchen.
Buzz would no sooner have been in the living room when someone was cooking than he would have barked to go out (which he never did)................
Not that Burt needs to be called once something important happens, like someone picking up his dish to put dinner in it.
But he's not Always There, the way Buzz was...............
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Buzz was a true corgi. Just some of the ways the two breeds are alike (always in the kitchen, always under foot, don't ask to go out . . .)
One time one of my non-dog friends was visiting.
She went to the kitchen, and the corgis went right along with her.
When she came back, she said something about them following. I told her that she had been in the *kitchen*, after all, she still didn't understand the Significance until I explained it.....
All of my corgis have come running if I say "oops" in the kitchen. Not if I say it anywhere else.....
I just realized over the weekend that, for the first time since April of 1981, I don't have a corgi.....
'Oops' is a very important word in our house too.
Mark says they go into the kitchen with us so "we don't get lost".
That's a great Buzz story! Tootie was always underfoot as well, and I bear the scars to prove it! She *hated* the vacuum, like most Corgis, and would bite at it whenever she got the chance. (I usually corralled her in another room so she wouldn't get hurt or damage the vacuum.) On this occasion, however, I was busy and forgot to corral her before I turned the vacuum on - she darted between my legs from behind me to bite the vacuum - and missed. She sunk one of her canines right into my calf, leaving a very nasty puncture wound. I think she thought she was protecting me from it.
Corgis, I have found, are very big on Supervision. They take a strong personal interest in making sure Everything is Done Correctly (unless it is they, themselves, doing [whatever], and then they will personally decide on the definition of Correct...).
And of course they have their eyes open for the main chance.
They know the monkeys drop food, so of course they are going to be there, just in case.......
Sue -- ouch!
Mine have always been more afraid of the vacuum than ready to attack it.
Not that it matters too much -- we don't use a vacuum very often, preferring to live with dust bunnies.....
:-)
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