I try to always take a picture of all the corgis that show up at our flyball tournaments. It's hard sometimes to get them all together and people think I'm crazy but who cares. LOL
Here's one from our last tournament:
(Zoe was hiding behind Tab while hanging out with her buddy Will--flyball teammate's son) All those corgis except for Zoe were racing. We missed getting Kojack (a PWC/JRT mix in the picture). Of course my team has the majority of corgis on it--we've got 5 on the team.
Tab is still going strong. He sees a holistic vet every 4-6 weeks for a chiropratic adjustment and to make sure all is OK as I'm a bit anal on his health. Zoe has been retired for quite a while. She suffered a shoulder injury years ago while playing in the yard. After that old age set in. Her eye sight isn't as good. She has suffered 2 ruptured disks (just getting up), and her kidney levels shot off the scales once. But she keeps coming back from it all and while a bit wobbly on the legs is still quite frisky and her appetite is still big--typical corgi. :-)
I'm still amazed that the minis still have to compete against all the other dog in your area. I think Taylor sounds very impressive! Way to go! Do you have any pictures of him doing agility?
I'm seeing a lot more Vallhunds around here now. Amazingly I'm seeing fewer Cardigans. There aren't any doing flyball in our region now and I haven't heard of too many doing agility. I don't compete in agility any more and only hear of a few Cardis out there.
I like the body style of the Vallhunds and personally think the corgis have gotten too long in the back. However I love the personality of the corgi over all the dogs--even my aussies.
Linda
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Originally Posted by Michael Romanos
Hi Linda of Herding Dogs - what a remarkable pic and so very foreign to the NZ dog sports scene. Your 14 year old seems in excellent shape and health and it is great that an 11 year old Pem can still foot it in agility/flyball. There is a 13 year old farming type dog here in NZ who still competes at the highest level - but of course she isn't a Corgi. I'm sure Taylor will be hard at it when he is seven or eight - if I'm still going strong! Flyball is a bit bigger here in NZ than I first thought. Taylor and I were recently competing in an agility event and there were 120 entries in the event with 23 minis - good minis numbers considering they must compete against allcomers. In actal fact Taylor finished first among the minis but only 14th overall. There is a Vallhund who regularly competes against Taylor and is generally five seconds faster over a course. She is real quick. Vallhunds are very much like Pems but those legs are longer and they have a more primitive attitude- ie not so refined as Corgis are.
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