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.

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.

Spay or Neuter Your Corgi?

Unless you’re a reputable breeder or have a show dog, you should seriously consider spaying or neutering your Welsh corgi. In an ideal world, everyone would own corgis and there’d be no problem having yours reproduce so that you could carry on the line. However, it is a sad fact that many dogs, including cute Pembroke and Cardigan corgis, are abandoned every day. If not rescued or adopted, they are put to sleep. This is reality.

For example, Los Angeles animal shelters took in 50,000 dogs and cats last year and nearly one-third were put to death (euthanized). The city has now passed one of the strictest animal sterilization laws in the country to deal with the problem.

Seriously consider spaying or neutering your corgi. If you want another four-legged friend, you can always adopt another Welsh corgi through a rescue organization.

Communicating With Your Welsh Corgi Dog

Dogs are one of the intelligent domesticated animals. They possess the ability to learn commands from words and body movements. Spending time teaching your corgi will not only develop the dog’s intellectual growth but will be equally therapeutic for you.

 

It is natural for dogs and humans to communicate. The fact is corgis recognize specific eye contacts, human body languages and responses, and specific tones of voices that can be used to effectively relay a message to them.

 

Eye contacts can convey several messages to your corgis. They sense your loving looks or reproofs. They can also understand when you are serious with your “No” or “Down” by how you look at them.

 

Dogs usually understand you’re body language responses even if you are not doing it intentionally for them. If you want your corgi to come to you without feeling threatened, be gentle in coaxing them or provide something as a treat. As he responds rightly, motivate him more by praising him. Since humans are bigger than corgis, they may feel intimidated just by moving suddenly towards him or by startling him unexpectedly.

 

Tones of your voices can be one of the most controlling tool to train and discipline corgis. Low pitched tones are useful if a master or dog owner wants their corgis to stop gnawing the edge of a couch or chewing socks. This sound may be similar to a growl of the corgi’s mother. Calm tones are similar to a bark for dogs and are helpful in giving commands. High pitched tones tend to remind the dogs of their playmates. They may treat you as their equal like that of children playing with them. This is best when encouraging your corgis to come near you or make them do something you want them to do.

 

Most often corgis are accustomed to non-verbal messages. They too, respond through their body language and simple barks, of course. Wagging of tail signifies “hello.” A low growl, raised hair, and exposed teeth, may mean that they are ready to attack. Most humans may underestimate dogs’ level of understanding. They can comprehend much more than how we expect them to be.

 

Your corgis practically live and move most of their lives in your environment. They will become familiar when you are happy, upset, distressed, lazy, or tired. Communicating with them effectively will deepen the bonding between you and your dog. Conversing regularly with them will make them familiarize by what you mean. Use the same actions or phrase over and over again until they completely understand. They always say constant practice makes permanent.

 

Striking or hitting your corgis is one of the worst ways of building a relationship or good communication. Don’t do it. This can only lead them in two ways: either they will fear you or hate you. Corgis will sense if you give them some respect or not. How they are treated is more likely how they will treat other dogs or other humans. Your neighbours will know the kind of master you are on how your corgis behave when there are other people around.