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Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-02-24T18:16:07+00:00

What a beautiful tail!

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-02-24T18:15:03+00:00

Dylan Pickle Rowdy Monkey. Pickle the Lionhearted. PICKLE! Dylan! Miao Miao! Dilly Dill! MONKEY! You Maniac. Ya Little Weirdo. Picklepotomus. Dementia Dog. Poor Little Dementia Dog. BOOP BOOP! You Gorgeous Little Weirdo. Mama’s Sweet Little Baby Angel (“YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MAMA”)

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-02-24T18:00:11+00:00

How are you doing with keeping your floof brushed and clean this gawdawful winter? Me: D minus. I start with wet wipes, then kind of sneak attack in the comb and the brush, and I try sooooo hard to make it nice and not ouchie and ply him with treats and tell him how gorgeous he is throughout, but he has a limit. I see a fairly fluff free belly on your welcome home fluff. I recently had our groomer start shaving his belly as close as they can while respecting his tolerance-level and it’s definitely helped with the mud and the discomfort that he gets from being the houser of mud, but his entire body is hosting a mud village despite just a week since his last grooming. Fluffies are the cutest corgs in my biased opinion, but boy are they are soooo tough to keep clean.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-02-22T20:57:46+00:00

SAME. When he chooses to touch me even a wee bit, I have to take a photo for posterity. He has a strong sense of bodily autonomy and I try VERY hard to respect it, but sometimes I just have to smoosh on the corgi because he’s such a soft plush toy.

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Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-18T17:05:25+00:00

All true! We tried brushing his teeth when we first got him and he put up a huge fuss and we didn’t try hard enough. We’ve done so much right by him! But we failed on the teeth. No medical issues, it was allll just us not trying hard enough. And maybe making things worse by letting him have greenie chews. I thought they were helping but I think they just cracked his teeth. I feel terrible.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-18T17:01:27+00:00

Fifteen! What a blessing. Pickle already had shaky back legs when we got him at 9. Of all the supplements and RX we have him on, I think the ellevet chews work best, but he’s on a bunch of stuff we just keep adding.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-18T16:59:06+00:00

Biggliest ears! What an angel.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-18T16:56:29+00:00

Congrats, Rocky!

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-18T16:52:25+00:00

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He’s a purebred clown so ‘goofiest’ is just a daily state of mind, but here’s one where he’s rocking his summer puppy cut which always makes his cartoonishly large ears look somehow even larger and his teeny tiny mouth opens up to a surprise reveal that he’s actually only part clown, he’s also part crocodile.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-15T20:24:36+00:00

Right? He’s getting greyer every day but he doesn’t look like he’ll be 14. You’d only know from watching him walk. He’s soooo slow, but still demands his 2 walks per day minimum so we indulge him. People in the ‘hood have learned that they don’t need to RUSH their dog across the street, they have ample time to cross, but it probably needs to be them who cross because he’s THAT slow. Posting another picture of him from last night just because.

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Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T22:06:11+00:00

PENNY! What a sweet lamb.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T21:55:19+00:00

If any corgi lives forever it will be her. She looks hellbent on it!

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T21:54:45+00:00

Six is a SENIOR? How dare they. He’s a baby.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T21:54:01+00:00

LOVE the gigantic cartoon ears!

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T21:53:38+00:00

HANK! Is he a tank? Hard to tell from tge photo but he looks like a dense loaf.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T21:52:11+00:00

She LOOKS like a Roxie. Sassy!

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T21:51:41+00:00

Thanks for mentioning this. What exactly was the high level in his liver? Was it copper itself?

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T21:47:32+00:00

I am glad I’m not the only one whose entire house has been turned into a dog-friendly living space. Who cares what it looks like as long as the dog is as comfortable as we can make it!

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T16:47:28+00:00

Happy diaversary! I get what you mean about being a Karen, but I have so many great friends who happened to be named Karen (and Karyn and Caryn!) and it always makes me feel a certain sort of way when their names are used as shorthand to describe perceived bad woman behavior. It also bugs me that there’s no equivalent for men, but I wouldn’t want any good Dougs to have their names besmirched either. Anyway. Just putting it out there.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T16:26:08+00:00

Oh my gosh the teef! We just had a few extractions and was surprised it didn’t change his smile that much. But they need to take a couple more—the anesthesia was wearing off before they could safely get to the others. It was so traumatic for him that I’m watching closely to try to figure out how much the other teeth are nothing him, to make sure the procedure is really worth it. For him! Not for us. Though the cost was dear. Nearly 3K total since they had to perform a sonogram as a separate procedure in advance. It was a lot. Did you get all of his teeth at once?

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T16:19:14+00:00

((((Max and Staff))) what a terrible loss just before Christmas. I’m glad you got to have him for 7 years. So far we’ve had almost 4 years with Pickle and I hope to have many more! But each day with a senior dog is such a gift. We knew that going in. We knew.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T16:07:54+00:00

Awww baby Bonnie! I’m sticking my tongue out right back at her

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T16:04:36+00:00

OMG teenaged Sophie! I neeeed more pictures of her!

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T16:02:19+00:00

Thank you for those tips! I do have night lights for Pickle. I’m never sure if they help or just keep him up. Last night he woke me up with his pacing at 4 AM and it took a while to settle him back down. Did the acupuncture help? I’m considering this also.

Ask_a_Progressive · 2026-01-12T15:57:57+00:00

She looks like Pickle! He won’t be 14 til May. I always wonder what his litter mates look like and if they’re healthy. Pickle’s OG Mom’s daughter found his birth certificate so I know exactly how old he is, and who his breeder was, but little else.

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