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it's a corgi mosh pit
As I write to you now, it's 35 degrees celsius in London. That's 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Too hot for me. Too hot for Winston 🔥 We're not used to these temperatures! As many of you may know, Brits love to moan about the weather and when we're not moaning about the cold and the dark (which is 95% of the time), we're moaning about the extreme heat (1% of the time). So yes, for about 4% of the time we're enjoying nice, reasonably warm weather conditions and not talking about it... Jeez, I'm even...
The year the corgi nearly disappeared 👑
Does your corgi do this too? Please excuse the grubby wall behind my husband's desk (we need to clean this!) but Winston has recently starting curling up beneath his desk while he works. Not his usual spot! He can usually be found in his bed next to me or - illegally - on top of our bed when no-one's watching. Of course I began frantically Googling whether this was a sign of something more sinister (hello, dog mum), but apparently it's not! It may be that it's a little warmer in the UK and...
How I'm keeping Winston young 🐣
Since Winston's CT scan came back clear a few weeks ago, even more people have stopped us in the street/in the park to comment on how young he looks. Seven years old and still got it! Besides good luck, I think his spritely looks/nature comes down to a few things: homemade food with a nutritional powder every morning, keeping his weight in check (we always get told how slim he looks for a corgi), and regular scent games — hiding kibble around the apartment, wrapping treats in a towel for him...
Happy International Corgi Day! 🎉
Today is a good day because a) It's International Corgi Day!!!! 🎉 and b) I have a very funny/mildly inappropriate (?) photo to share of Winston, taken by his lovely dog sitter. In case you missed our last email, my husband and I spent last week in Spain for a friend's wedding. It was gorgeous. Lots of sangria and tapas was consumed... Meanwhile, Winston was having the time of his life with a dog sitter back in London. I mean... just look at the photo evidence! Mummy, who?! 🤣 Snoot boops and...
I'm sad no corgis featured! 🎬
It's almost a long Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK and Winston, my husband and I are so ready for it! ☀️ On Saturday, Winston and I are traveling down to West Sussex to stay with Winston's grandparents (my parents) and their two lovely doggies (Fred the Irish Terrier and Stan the Pug). Then, on Monday morning, I'm dropping Winston to stay with a lovely Italian lady called Tiziana (who Winston adores) for a few days while we go to Spain for a friend's wedding. We found Tiziana through the...
I took my corgi to a hot sauce festival
This past week's been a fun one for Winston. He got to spend time with my parents dogs (a Pug and an Irish Terrier, they're quite the duo!), he was given the world's biggest carrot (seriously, I wish I'd taken a photo but it vanished before I had the chance) by our lovely cleaning lady, Jola, AND he accompanied my husband and I to a hot sauce festival last Saturday, which meant he got to hoover up crisps and breadcrumbs off the floor that were dropped by a steady stream of hot sauce-taste...
Wonderful news from the vet!
I'm so happy to share the wonderful news that Winston's CT scan came back completely clear! 7 years old and no luxating patella (what the vet thought it might be), no signs of arthritis, no bulging discs, no nothing! After a protracted and painful wait for the results (I wrote about that here), my husband and I are so happy he has a completely clean bill of health. The vet thinks it must've been a bad muscle sprain, which fortunately healed all by itself. Thank you so much again for all your...
Who is your favorite famous corgi?
Happy Wednesday from London, lovely reader! It's another beautifully sunny day here, and after I finish up client work for the day, I'm going to carry on editing my new video series about the famous and the not-so-famous (but very important corgis) in pop culture. The first corgi in the series was Rufus, one of Amazon's first 20 employees (and certainly the cutest and shortest!). I absolutely love the story of Amazon's 'Official Switch Thrower' so if you don't already know about Rufus, go...
🤖 That "dog expert" is not real
I can't thank you enough for the lovely messages of support I received from so many of you about our scary incident with Winston a couple of weeks ago <3 In case you missed it, I wrote about that here. I don't have an update just yet (we're booked in to have his scan tomorrow morning), but as soon as I know more I'll share it with you. In the meantime, at the start of the year I was interviewed by the lovely Candie, Catherine, and Chuckles (the Corgi) from Corgi Town USA. If you have a spare...
👀 Watch out for dubious dog supplements
Last Monday we had a scary incident with Winston. I went to take him out for his night wee and when I picked him up to place him in his harness, he cried out in pain. He couldn't stand up for more than a few seconds — and suddenly I started panicking. Had something happened to his spine? It was 9.30pm when my husband and I drove him to the emergency vet, 10 minutes away. We sat in the waiting room until, finally, we were seen at 11pm. The vet did lots of reflex tests, checked Winston's legs...
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