"Frapping"

[corgimom]

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[glencorgi]

FRAP (Frequent Random Acts of Play or Frequent Running And Playing)
Cody treated you to a traditional display of FRAPPING. Some corgis have a higher propensity to FRAP than others do, but yes, perfectly normal. And who needs TV when there is a frapping corgi about?

Debbie

[Corgis'R4me]

Originally Posted by corgimom

Could someone fill me in more about this so called "Frapping" that Corgis do?

My last Corgi never did that, but from what I have been reading, most Corgis
do. My new Corgi boy, Cody, "Fraps". Today after a walk, he seemed quite
tired to me, but as soon as we walked into the house, he began to run around
the furniture in circles, sometimes in a figure eight. He did this for about 10
seconds, at the most, and then was done. Is this normal?

Linda
Corgi mom

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*~* Midnight & Sunshine run around the house chasing eachother. Midnight will usually try and get Sunshine's attention...then start running around our coffee table and couch...then through our kitchen.

I thought that it was a game of, "Chase".

Now, I know that it is called "Frapping".

Sometimes, Midnight will do it all by herself...and Sunshine will just sit and watch her.

Midnight doesn't make a typical "BARK" sound. She sounds like this, "baa-wooo"..."baa-wooo" ! She usually, "baa-wooo" is as she is being crazy...running throught the house.
* The funniest thing that she does is: she starts running around the house then, jumps up in the air and goes in the opposite direction !! Too funny..!!

*~* Nikki

[KatC]

Abby frequently does the figure of eight frapping, especially in the evening, from one end of the house to the other, always including a circuit round the settee. She usually does at least five or six runs going faster than a speeding bullet, and her racing feet sounding like a herd of corgis, not just one If an unsuspecting person happens to be seated in a lounge chair, sometimes, without warning, she will launch herself straight into your lap on one of the passes,which really knocks the wind out of your sails, and always when you least expect it.

[Michael Romanos]

Taylor doesn't frap. My other Corgis did. But that's not to say that Taylor won't ever "perform" or that it has not occurred by him in less blatant forms. My previous Corgi use to frap at 6pm on most nights - I can't remember if it was generally after his dinner or just prior. But it was a ritual.

[darci]

Boy Does Darci ever Frap, and like Kat C she will jump in your lap on a pass and literally leave you breathless. LOL

[Cardiguy]

Ruby has always done "frapping" just never knew there was a term attached to it. When she is excited, she will run full steam from our living room into the dining room around the furniture full speed and back to the living room usually doing the "course" twice. We usually yell "Go Ruby Go when she is "frapping".

[Jane Austen]

The only thing that Duchess seems to do in a playful spontanious way is flip an old bone. She just flings it in the air once or twice.
She sometimes chases the cat but that is ritual they have worked out between them. The cat teases the dog on to the chase.

[Chip's Mom]

Chip does this sometimes too. I just thought he was happy. I didn't realize it was a corgi trait. He was 12 weeks old yesterday.

[corgimom]

Thanks for all the comments. I think the "frapping" is quite cute. I love to
see him run like that and then just make a quick stop with tongue hanging out, as if to say, "whew, I now need a nap" It is very entertaining for my
3 cats that have no idea why he is doing that. I am sure they think he is
half crazy! - ha

[tandemgal]

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[Jhemphill]

Maximus fraps in and out of the house. In the house he runs from the room that he is in around the bottom floor of the house a couple of times. If he is upstairs he will run from the room he is in down the hall to the other end of the house, make a u-turn in that room then run to the other end of the house make a u=turn and continue, he does this a couple of times he usually stops when he is in the master bedroom when he notices the water bowl. If he is outside he will start to run cross in the middle of the yard run to the other end turn and then cross in the middle of the yard running to the other end, he will do this serveral times then run up the stairs to the porch door to be let in. Before we got him, my daughters Amreican Bulldog would do this everynight in the late evening, we called it the crack run. Now both Maxi and Madjai do this, you really do not both of them to come running full speed and leap on you if you are on the couch if you are unprepared, because when they do this you get the air knock out of you and then they feel that full face kisses need to be administered to say they are sorry, you could suffocate. I think it is so fun to watch, like was said in an eariler post who need a television for enertainment when you have dogs. When the two of them get going upstairs it soounds like a herd of elephants is upstaris.

Jodi

[darci]

LOL

Crack run..... too funny

[corgimom]

I was wondering if anyone had tried a laser pointer with their new puppy? or
older corgi for that matter.

I have three cats and only 1 likes to chase the light from the laser pointer.
I tried it tonight and my Corgi, Cody, jumped right in to chase it. It was
hilarious. He was having a good time! - there were a couple of times when
the cat and Cody almost collided heads trying to get to the light.

Linda
Corgimom

[Michael Romanos]

You've got to watch out for tempting Corgis to chase laser (and torch) lights. I've seen and heard of dogs who can't get it out of their system and chase all kinds of things that are associated strongly or remotely with lights and shadows . It can become a mental problem and is a potentially hazardous exercise.