Coyotes Kill Pet Corgi

You can never be too careful when protecting your corgis. For example, I don’t leave mine unattended in my car because there’s a real danger someone will break in and steal them.

Here’s a story that reinforces the need to protect your Welsh corgis from external dangers. Even your back yard isn’t necessarily safe.

A couple came home to discover that their corgi had been fatally attacked by coyotes in their home’s back yard. The details of the story make it clear that the poor little corgi suffered quite a bit before being put to sleep by a veterinarian.

While a coyote attack may be a minimal risk for your corgi, how many other risks are just sitting around because there’s so many other things to do in your work and personal life? A chocolate candy bar left unattended could kill your dog if he eats it.

No one can provide a perfectly safe environment for corgis to live — but always be aware of the risks and do what you can to minimize them.

As for the corgi that was killed by the coyotes, the story notes that she was rescued from an animal shelter several years ago. Although the death was horrible, chances are her owners prolonged her life by rescuing her from the shelter. One hopes that they honor her memory by saving another corgi through adoption.

Hat tip to the Valencia County News-Bulletin.

If you’re interested in adopting a corgi from a rescue organization, check out this website’s adopt-a-corgi page.

Foods to Avoid Feeding Your Welsh Corgi Dog

Although your Welsh corgi is primarily an omnivore who can eat almost anything, there are some foods that should never be eaten because they can make your corgi sick or even kill him. No matter how much your dog begs for these forbidden foods, do not give in.

 

Never feed your corgi chocolate because it can be deadly. Other foods to particularly avoid include onions, spicy foods, poultry skin (chicken, turkey, etc.), poultry meat with bones in it, and most diary products (milk, cheese, etc.). While these foods may not kill your dog, they have the potential to make him very sick.

 

And of course there is the problem of Welsh corgis tending to gain weight. Giving your corgi meal leftovers can lead him to begging to get more. This is a bad habit/trick to teach your corgi. Every time you feed leftovers, it makes it difficult to stop your corgi from begging for more in the future because you’ve tied together the concept of begging and getting fed in response. So do not start giving your leftovers from your meals or you may have to spend a lot of time teaching your corgi not to beg plus have to put him on a diet to lose all the weight gained from overeating the wrong types of food.

Adopt Patrick the Welsh Corgi Mix

corgi mix patrick welsh corgi adoptionPatrick is a corgi mix that is only a little over 1 years old.

He is a full of energy — a lovable corgi that weighs about 35 pounds.

Patrick has all of his shots up-to-date, he’s neutered, and has no heart worms.

Both crate-trained and potty-trained, he’s low maintenance.

If you’d like to bring this cute dog home with you, simply e-mail rescue1@northtxwelshcorgis.org right now to find out how you can adopt him.

Visit the site at:

http://www.northtxwelshcorgis.org/northtxwelshcorgis/Rescue.html

Your Corgi Dog’s Psychology

corgi dog trainingAccording to Leon Whitney “Man and dog live in different space-time worlds and it is our world where the dog can’t enter because he lacks imagination, we can put ourselves in his world by using our unique powers”. Recognizing both the limitations and abilities of corgis, we can identify the link and connection of our world as humans, to that of dogs. Though corgis are not completely similar with human’s intellectual and psychological make-up, surely enough they do not possess artificial intelligence to function and interact. They are living creatures!

 

It is your responsibility to understand corgi behaviour, anticipate actions, and predict responses. Dogs have reflexes that are both produced by their own animal instincts at the same time learned from proper communication and training by human intervention.

Corgis’ past experiences establish their thought patterns influencing present and future reactions. They behave during conflicts by submitting, avoiding, fleeing, being aggressive or moves around hyper-actively. When they become defensive they can also instinctively become aggressive but is because of stress or decreased learning ability. Both suggest that a dog’s natural level of reactions to his environment is completely independent from human involvement. corgis have a quicker reaction time than that of man’s. They can respond at a 1/40th second while human at a ¾ split second time.

 

Unlike humans, your corgis do not rationalize, do not reason, do not hope, do not aspire, no insights, no foresights, no ambitions, no past, or no future. They do not have a sense of moral or immoral accountabilities. What they basically have is the sense of comfort, discomfort, pleasant and unpleasant. Their memory is limited only to temporary and spatial patterns of actions. Nevertheless, their good learning is the result from a satisfying outcome. Their behaviours are developed by instincts from repetitive patterns of instructions.

 

Dogs’ ability to learn quicker is when there are available rewards given. And when these rewards are timely provided, like when the corgi obeyed specific rules and he was wholeheartedly praised by the master or corgi owner. Their focus on learning particular behaviours can improve when there are less distractions. Their complete anticipation to move on to the next level will be motivated with a given proper stimuli. However, their learning is hindered if there are tensions built up between them and their human guide on the process of interaction.

A specific stimulus becomes ineffective when it becomes tedious and dull. To have alternative reinforcements can be more helpful than sticking to one form of stimulus; provided that you confine yourself to positive ones, making learning likeable and more effective.

 

Patience and giving corrections properly are better than countering it with several half-hearted reprimands.