Come Snuggles with Momma

Whiskey is a strange little bug. Every night around 9:30 I suppose its her self declared bedtime. My bedroom is right off the kitchen (it was the old family room) and doesn't have door. So my mom will sometimes still be in the kitchen cleaning up or getting some coffee so the light is still on. That bothers Whiskey apparently. She will crawl under my bed and lay under there until I tell her to get out or when the lights go off. The other night I wish I had my camera or phone next me, because all I saw were 2 little corgi chicken legs sticking out from under the bed.
Anyways, for the past few nights when I crawl into bed. She will sit at the edge whimpering and pawing at the sheets. So I pick her up onto the bed, and lay down. I then proceed to say "come snuggles with momma." And she will, she will come right up under my arm and snuggles. But her definition of snuggles is me petting her... constantly... If I stop she will give a low disapproving grunt. So I start scratching her again and slowly stop. This time she grunts, licks me, and moves her body and "slam" it down on the bed. If I have to reposition myself in the bed she will bark and grunt and again get up and give me this look like "how dare you disturb me".
Well sorry missy-moo.
So after her having enough of no more petting she will teeter at the edge of bed, then I get up and gently put her on the floor.
This whole process went on just like that last night, except when I put her on the floor I heard her scuffle around a little and usual she will settle down in front of the sliding glass door. I peeked to see if that's where she was and she wasn't... I sat straight up in bed and scanned the room. Where did this little booger go?
Whiskey....?
Whiskey....?
Where are you...?
I finally hear the jingle of her tags and its coming from underneath my bed.
"Whiskey get out from under the bed!"
Slowly I see a little black nose poke out, then just her head. Ok fine. I rolled over and went to sleep.

Does anyone else Corgis have some funny sleeping pattern? I'd love to hear about it.

Whew...

Ok first things first. Now that the blog has a background and semi matching header. I'm still not entirely pleased with it, and after a few hours of yelling at my computer, pulling out my hair and sweating my brains out it is somewhat to my liking. I will have to put a few more hours into it tomorrow seeing as I am holding my eyes open.

2nd topic: boyfriend, me and sometimes my mom aka grammie (later to be joined by my best girl friend aka Twinny, and other long time 20 year friend are speed walking/jogging a little more than 2 miles a day.

....I'll wait for your applause....

Oh why thank you! You shouldn't have! I'm blushing. :-)

I get home from work at 7:30pm, feed the dog, change to sweaty work out clothes, feed myself (a fruit and ensure-like drink), plug in iPod and off we go. About an hour later we get home to a much disapproving dog an take her out for her walk.

Today I just did that, but when I took Whiskey out she must have known we did some serious walking and pulling me along down the side walk (I would have been MORE than fine with a nice slow paced stroll). It was almost like she was telling me "Look mom I can do it too. I can keep up". Oh how cute puppers. You would make it to the end of the block with that little pep in your step then die and dig your heals into the concrete and refuse to move.

I did however console her by saying "Mommy is going to get a push buggie and then you can walk however far you can, then ::ploop: into the buggie you go and off we continue". I really am planning that, so I will keep you updated. Just waiting on some garage sales or bulk pick-up to see if I can Pupp-a-fy a baby stroller.

Don't give me that look. I already Doggie pimped a bicycle ride for her. (pictures will be up soon of that).

And I will keep updates of our exercise progress.

Today was day 2

Please bare with me

My blog background looks like it got deleted by the provider. So I am kinda back to square one to finding a new one (and header). So just bare with the jumbled excuse for a blog right now. It will bw pretty again...soon.
Thank you.

Short but sweet update

The little Corgi I found on petfinder a few days ago was adopted. I went on my usual search on petfinder today, and she was not there. I just hope she got a good home. She was too sweet looking of a girl to stay there. I was going to try and see her this weekend, but I guess that trip got cancelled.

Run with the big dogs

I just had to write this down in the blog. It is short: I go to take whiskey out for her evening walk and as soon as I step out the door my arm gets pulled off. Whiskey sees a guy running with his 2 labador retriever dogs. She want to join the fun. Now I know EXACTLY where the term bunny butts come from. She was so excited she tried to take off with the big dogs but me digging my heels in the concrete at the end of the leash, and then showed up the bunny butt in full force with a slight hopping motion as well. I wish I had my camera to take a video! The little things that just make you smile and laugh.

I'm in Trouble...

...again. I need to find a support group. I have a problem.

Hi my name is Katie and I have a problem with looking for dogs/corgis on petfinder.com.

Yes, I found another dog that I'm in love with, and to make matters worse: she is being held at the humane society in my county. Its a 15 minute drive from my house, and 2 minutes from the boyfriends house. She is a pure breed corgi, and she has the cutest corgi smile in the picture. I have a name for her already (or I can just re-name Whiskey) Kumquat.
I'm in trouble, I'm in big BIG trouble. My boyfriend and I need our own place, and maybe win the lottery. I love animals too much!

Beat the Heat in south FLA

This is my own little ideas of how to beat the heat, but if you want the more in depth version visit: Corgi Butt.
Lately to beat the heat I have been using frozen fruit and frozen treats and A LOT of swimming, cooling down with the hose, or laying on the cold tile under the fan.
Whiskey spends most of the weekday working hours (unless mom aka grammie comes home for lunch and takes her out for a little) in her kennel aka house. I rearranged my room this past weekend and moved her house away from the window and in to the corner where it is darker and cooler (slightly). The other day I let her out of her house and put my hand inside- it was quite warm. So I came up with the brilliant idea to get her a personal fan. I went to Kmart and for her a little 6 inch clip on fan. I set it up clipped it to her kennel door yesterday night, and Whiskey plopped her little corgi butt right in front of that fan and didn't move. She even went inside her house to see what that was like. It was comical to see. My boyfriend and I were cracking up watching her get the right angle of the fan wind. This morning when I left she walked into her house, I set up her fan, and went to leave- not without looking back at my girl who was as close to that fan as she could be catching the cool air.

Disclaimer: her fan is OUTSIDE her kennel door and the cord is far away from any chances of being chewed.

I was also talking to some girls at work and one said they take a full plain yougurt and put it in the fridge, making their own frost paws. Put it in front of her dog and watch the cooling fun.

Try and stay cool this summer everyone!