Becoming alpha can be hard because of the simple mistakes you make that convinces your corgi he is top dog.

But five most commonly things that make your corgi think he’s alpha may seem unimportant to you.

1. When taking your corgi out for a walk, or to the dog park, or the vet, you go out first. The leader is always in front, and no one who isn’t alpha gets ahead of alpha. Making sure you are always ahead of your corgi, will help your corgi learn who is the leader.

2. When it comes to eating, alpha gets to eat first, then what ever the alpha dog doesn’t eat, the rest of the pack gets the scraps. This doesn’t mean that you should eat most of your dinner, then take what’s left over and give it to your corgi. Just that when it comes to eating, you eat, if your corgi begs for something, just keep on eating and ignore your corgi, and after you’re done, you feed your corgi.

3. If you’re walking in a narrow hallway and your corgi is just laying there in the middle and won’t move, don’t just walk over your corgi. Just gently get your corgi to move out of the way, and don’t hurt him. If you move around your corgi or step over him, it’s like your telling him he is top dog, and I shouldn’t get in his or her way.

4. Giving your corgi attention can be a big part of being alpha or not. If your corgi is begging for some attention, just ignore your corgi until you’re ready to give him or her attention. When your done giving attention, take away and put away any toys you were using to play with. And if your corgi begs for some more attention, just ignore him until you’re ready to give some more attention.

5. Do not let your corgi sleep on your bed. When you’re letting your corgi sleep on your bed, your corgi could try to boot you off the bed and make it his own. Leaving you with the nice comfortable floor. When you don’t have to make your corgi sleep on the floor, you could get a doggy bed for him, but he can’t sleep on the floor. If you have a bed that your corgi can just jump right on to, you can leave your corgi out in another room to sleep. But if your corgi is being trained not to chew, you can try a bed that is like a bunk bed, but doesn’t have the bottom bed so your corgi can’t get on it.

Letting your corgi know who is alpha leader with help with training, obedience, and other tricks.

Corgis sometimes roll in their own waste and other things.

For hunting (birds, deer, and other things), dogs in general have to cover up their scent by rolling in something a lot more powerful or worse smelling then theirs. Corgis, like most dog breeds, have this ingrained through evolution.

This instinct is hard to correct to where your corgi will not roll in something that smells. But it may take some time till your corgi has learned not to roll in something that smells.

Two things to help your corgi learn faster is to become alpha leader, and make sure your “NO” is given as a command during or immediately before the time your corgi starts to roll in something he shouldn’t.