The Cat and the Corgi, II

If I ever catch Anniecat doing this I will make cat toast out of her.

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Pictures - The Pups are Five Weeks Old

I got to visit them yesterday.

Here are a few pictures and two videos.

                                                       Breakfast

                                                       Rooster - He's already been claimed

                                                           Toucan

Video: Raven Plays with a Ball

Video: Rooster Gets Raven's Tail

Also, The Web Cam seems to be working, finally. click here to see if there is any action!

We have set a date for me to bring my puppy home -
That will be Friday morning, October 19th!
But, as of now, I have no clue to which one of them it will be - except that Rooster and Swan already are taken.

The Cat and the Corgi

The other day I took Annie-cat to the vet. There happened to be a Pembroke Corgi (the tailless ones) there. The Corgi came bounding over to me as soon as I said hello to her and was all over my lap and wiggling around even though she was a full grown adult. Typical bubbly Pembroke Corgi. Then she spotted Annie in her carrier. Corgi pressed her nose to the bars on the door of the carrier, sniffing madly. Annie sat, with her nose very near the bars. No retreating. No hissing. Not even flinching. Just watching as the silly Corgi sniffed and sniffed.

This is encouraging, indicating that, maybe Annie will tolerate - even like - Cori Cardi Corgi when he/she gets here.

Meanwhile, here is Annie - keeping the Corgi bed warm . . . obviously I need to get several more of these beds so both animals will have choices . . .

They're Here!!

 Here they are!!  Above - Mommy Flower with one day old puppies! Below - Grandma Maya checks out the new arrivals. There are 7 of them, 4 girls, 3 boys, born August 15, which just happens to be the day my daughter Jennifer turned 40!

Rocky and Flower

This is Flower

and this is Rocky

Flower is expecting a litter - due August 17th. Rocky is the father.
They got together rather unexpectedly one day in June. The gardener let Rocky out while Flower was "ripe".
Breeder Kim was not too happy about it at first, but now it seems there was purpose in the "mistake".
You see, sweet Sapphire only delivered one live baby. It was very sad for all. I had fallen in love with that dog, but no Sapphire pup for me.
Now Flower has already had a litter of eight pups with Rocky as dad, so everyone is feeling optimistic. Click on eight pups and scroll down the page a bit to see them. My pup will look like these cuties! Look at Ouzo. He cracks me up!

Now I have to wait a little longer for my pup - until about mid-October. I'm happy to wait - mid-September would have been a scramble, what with all the other things going on in my life.
Regional Baseball Tournament (Grandson's little league team)
Alaska visit
Bristol England visit
Then - come home and get ready for my Cori Cardi (short for Cardigan Welsh) Corgi  dog!

Meanwhile . . .

Here's our Annicat, hangin' in the dog crate!

The Naming of Dogs

We know the due date!  July 19th, plus or minus two days.

It's like expecting a baby.
Gathering all the supplies I will need.
Instead of reading "What to Expect when You're Expecting" I am reading "The Art of Raising a Puppy".
And, thinking about names. Just like with babies.

Writing lists of names.
Going on websites looking for names.
Talking to people about names.
Talking to myself about names.

Loosers:
Wooziboo (sounds like baby talk)
Teebow (sounds like TeeBone)

Current front runners:
Corriander "Cory"
Spark

Next post will probably be the birth announcement post,
Unless I get a picture of Parker the daddy.

Meanwhile, click on her name to have another peek at sweet mommy Sapphire

Oh, and can you guess what the cat is doing right now?
She's sleeping - what else is new - in the - new!- dog crate!
Now I have to worry about her feeling she's lost her bed when the dog comes.

The Beginning

Today I sent in a deposit to reserve a puppy at Coedwig Cardigan Welsh Corgis.

www.coedwig.com 
 
If you go there you can see pictures of the mom to be - Sapphire.
And pictures of lots of her relatives.

Now, this is definitely different for me.
I have been an exclusively cat person most of my life.

The cat has left the room.
This is not normal behavior for the cat.
Shucks, cat, all I am doing is thinking about a (the) dog.

I need to go find my cat.