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Originally Posted by Michael Romanos
No, Glencorgi, I have only said in the past that it is ok for pups over six months to climb up and down stairs which doesn't mean that they should be jumping much higher than the distance between one stair and another at that age.
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There is hope!
Cindy, I don't think it was Taylor that jumped from the bridge. I believe it was another one of Michael's corgis. And then there was the other one that lept from the bank of a hill onto the sealed path.
Corgi toughness, let me add this into the equation. Corgis are tough breeds, as I said earlier they had to be in order to do the work they were bred for. However, not many of us live on Welsh farmsteads which would be their natural habitat. What they are encountering in our modern world, a little common sense needs to be called upon in order to ensure puppies are able to grow up as sound as possible and our seniors are accomodated to the limitiations brought on by age. Corgis are also very stoic breeds and we often don't realize they are in pain or are having a medical problem until sometimes it is too late. Cindy coming home yesterday to find Darci in the shape she was in is an excellent example of how stoic corgis can be. Darci's crystals were a condition that had been coming on from sometime, yet she let on no indications that she was having a problem. A past president of the CWCCA and well known Breeder had the same thing happen to her a few years ago. Just because the either of Michael's leaping corgis appeared to shake off their landings as if nothing had happened, doesn't mean they weren't at least sore for a while, even though they may have never let on or that later problems they might have had weren't related to their leaps. Stoic in regards to pain, is a typical corgi way.
Debbie