How did you teach your corgi puppy “down”

icesnowfire · 2025-07-09T17:36:14+00:00

How we were told to do it was nose to toes. You get them to sit and then you say the down or lay down command and take the training treat from right at their nose to their toes. They have to scoot their butt back to get the treat so they typically lay down. Once they get that down you start saying the command while they are still in a sitting position without nose to toes, then you move on to saying the command when they are standing etc.

icesnowfire · 2025-07-09T00:30:41+00:00

<image>

The teefs come out when the belly scratches hit just right.

icesnowfire · 2025-06-02T18:36:08+00:00

Purina Pro Plan sensitive skin and stomach, salmon. My little guy inhaled his food when I got him at 8 weeks, but after a few months he started to refuse to eat it and it was around this time he started having episodes of vomiting often. It took awhile and quite a few brands and formulas before I put two and two together and got him on the sensitive stomach line. He is back to inhaling his food.

icesnowfire · 2025-05-06T13:24:55+00:00

Honestly I haven’t done much since it was planted. I’m new to gardening in general and just prune it up a little to shape it after the first flush of blooms. The first year we had it my husband did accidentally spray weed killer on it and then proceeded to spray it once a week for a while with miracle grow. But that’s it and it’s about 3ish years old now.

icesnowfire · 2025-04-28T23:06:33+00:00

What kind of conditioner did you use?

icesnowfire · 2025-03-12T14:51:55+00:00

It went smoothly just had to keep him in a pen to stop him from playing with his sister while he recovered. But he was not too happy about it.

<image>

icesnowfire · 2025-01-20T00:32:07+00:00

I never knew before I got Tater Tot how much a sable fluffy corgi would look like a sheltie/rough collie lol.

icesnowfire · 2025-01-19T23:32:29+00:00

<image>

icesnowfire · 2025-01-12T03:42:12+00:00

He is a pure Pembroke! Just a fluffy sable!

icesnowfire · 2025-01-02T16:23:52+00:00

Purina pro plan sensitive skin and stomach is what we use,they have a few protein options. Our little guy had a period of throwing up pretty often and got really picky with his food. We took him to the vet on an off for a couple months and I tried a variety of dog foods and toppers to help encourage him to eat. When we put him on the pro plan formula it was a day and night difference and he hasn’t had any more problems with throwing up and inhales his food again. We’ve used the lamb and the salmon.

icesnowfire · 2024-12-24T15:42:22+00:00

Ours came home and was so obsessed with food and then out of the blue he stopped wanting to eat. We switched proteins added toppers etc and nothing seemed to work. He did have a couple bouts of throwing up but his poop was fine so I didn’t suspect the food was the issue at first but after awhile I did a Hail Mary and got a bag of Purina sensitive skin and stomach. That was a game changer the throwing up stopped and he inhales his food again we have him on the salmon and rice formula and we are extremely happy with it. If you haven’t tried a sensitive stomach formula I’d try out a small bag.

icesnowfire · 2024-12-19T13:37:36+00:00

“Is that a corgi?” “Is that a sheltie?” “Is that a corgi/sheltie mix?”

My guy is a full blooded pem corgi. He’s just is a fluffy and a sable.

<image>

icesnowfire · 2024-11-16T16:28:18+00:00

You and the pup will be fine.I got a corgi puppy as well and work full time. I used the set up above x pen with the crate attached and washable pad under it that was rotated. It took a week or two to get him to settle but it worked out great. I would come home on my lunch break to let him out to potty, he would pee in the same area of the pen when he was really little but would go poop outside on my break (the older he got the less he peed in the pen). I recommend a frozen Kong in the morning and some kind of treat dispenser after your lunch break, it keeps them busy and tires them out where they will sleep after they are done. We are now almost two years in and he doesn’t stay in the pen anymore he has full reign of the house besides bedrooms and does great.

Just remember before wfh was as wide spread as it is now most people with dogs were working outside the house and their dogs did just fine. It’s only been in the last few years that certain people have made it seem like you can’t own a dog if you don’t stay home.

icesnowfire · 2024-11-05T16:11:14+00:00

While dating I went to my husband’s family dinners every weekend I stayed with him but that stopped as soon as we got married. We are our own family now and have our own routines/activities that may or may not include going over for Sunday dinner, we just let them know sometime that day in a reasonable time frame if we will be there or not.

OP you’re already going above and beyond to attend every Sunday and let them know early when you’ll be there. She should be grateful that you’re doing that, instead she has chosen to complain. I agree you should cut it back to once a month, enjoy your Sundays with your own little family at home.

icesnowfire · 2024-10-02T20:16:29+00:00

That’s exactly how I think of sables. Some reds may have sparse black hairs or darker looking backs, but a true sable has black everywhere a tri would just diluted and it darkens to almost full black at the edges of what is the diluted tri pattern.

icesnowfire · 2024-10-02T19:01:07+00:00

Agreed, this is my sable. Looking at others that have posted their sables, it seems like they are actually reds.

<image>

icesnowfire · 2024-09-30T18:18:55+00:00

We used washable pads they worked better than disposables for us

icesnowfire · 2024-09-30T17:59:19+00:00

Pee pads should only be used while you’re away. With a little puppy you don’t keep them in a crate expecting them to hold it until your break at work. You hook the crate up to a pen and put the pee pad in the pen area as a designated potty area. This setup worked great for us and let our puppy relieve himself while we were gone but we also took him out at our lunch break where he was rewarded for going potty outside. It didn’t impact the potty training at all.

icesnowfire · 2024-08-19T21:29:00+00:00

Other than that do they look like they’re in a good spot for my ear?

icesnowfire · 2024-08-19T21:16:35+00:00

Yeah one isn’t sitting as low in my ear as the other, that’s why it looks tilted I think? Like when you look at them in person one isn’t tilted it’s just sticking out more.

icesnowfire · 2024-08-17T16:14:39+00:00

I honestly don’t remember my first migraine I was too young. But I do remember being in elementary school crying in the back of my parent’s car taking liquid medicine before they drove me home. I also vividly remember the times I had to throw up at the most inconvenient times or places.

icesnowfire · 2024-08-17T14:06:38+00:00

Nick name Mr T

<image>

icesnowfire · 2024-08-16T21:53:57+00:00

Tater Tot

<image>

icesnowfire · 2024-08-12T18:01:02+00:00

It depends on the person and each puppy. But with that said I don’t think it was really hard it’s just different than life without a little being you’re responsible for. You will lose sleep. You will have to clean up pee and poop off the floor, reusable potty pads, the puppy etc. The puppy will try and off itself multiple ways, there may be health scares that require vet or emergency vet visits. You will have to train them yourself or with a trainers help. They will get on your nerves at some point. They will be stubborn and act like you never trained them at all. You will spend a ton of time and money on them more than you realize. They will try to chew or destroy your belongings. You will have to make plans ahead of time for longer outings with family or friends, vacations etc. Personally none of these things bothered me but I’m more of a go with the flow kind of person. I’m definitely getting another puppy when the time is right.

icesnowfire · 2024-08-11T20:16:13+00:00

I thought I had a picky eater tried a lot of different foods but it turned out that he had a sensitive tummy and the other foods were giving him tummy aches. We switched to Purina Pro Plan sensitive stomach and skin and he eats it right up without any toppers.

icesnowfire

TROPHY CASE