Corgi puppy as I still sometimes call him has become Corgi doggy (notice I can't think of him as a full grown anything thus the extra gy in doggy) and is as cute and lovable as ever. His character traits, however, have hardened some , as HE decides if feels like paying attention to our commands!
Dancing is his new fun trick as he jumps up and down on his hind legs. He does of course do all the tricks he used to but sometimes, often times has to be cajoled through the use of a doggy bribe better known as treats. Cajoled every single time, as if he is saying: "I KNOW what you want me to do, but what's in it for me?"
And talk about commands, we dropped out of dog obedience lessons after the third lesson as clearly Socs wasn't happy about waiting around for all the other puny "puppies-- younger than him-- to get whatever the lesson of the moment might be; as a result in between waiting for new commands he'd barge in to any of several other puppies's business and sniff and jump and generally become uninterested in being fed and clicked at constantly... in deference to being social (a chip off the old block, me). In the end, actually well before the end, I just got tired of pulling and tugging at him. The teacher also, it appears, liked to stick with animals and their people were were doing best not worst, which in Soc's case was calamity for poor old me, as Socs got nervous at the same time as he snubbed the "lesson plus clicking the clicker plus feeding" and rarely performed as he would have at home. Besides exhibiting doggy ADHD he also appeared to have an anxiety attack each time, and no matter how much he had pooped before a lesson, Socs managed to poop anew once inside the training facility... it was downright embarrassing and exhausting. Mid-third lesson, I decided I had already done a fine job on my own, and could not deal with Socrates apparent return to confused puppyhood: For during those three plus weeks, even at home, he began peeing and pooping inside at all the wrong times-- obviously regression (and not the mathematical type) from being overstressed.
