Liz S. and her hubby Anthony and live in Indianapolis, Indiana with two dogs and three cats — “a bit like a zoo”.
“We have a two year old Swedish Vallhund, Loki and a year and a half-old Cardigan Corgi Olive. The cats are just regular cats, except for Izzy the orange tabby.”
“We found her as a tiny kitten and she is a wonderful little creature.”
“She’ll put herself in the middle of the action between Loki and Olive, while the other cats hide or stay out of the way.”
“Izzy loves the dogs and thinks she’s one too!”
“We started our Corgi collection with a tri-colored male named Puxy (full name Punxsutawney Phil, after the groundhog and movie). I’m librarian and researched dogs before we got one. We thought a Corgi would be perfect a big dog in a small dog body. I also had read that Corgis were better in twos, so when Puxy was three we got Maddy.”
“They got along fine but we realized Puxy was the exception to the rule and would have been better as an only dog. Puxy had many health issues and tended to be a bit grumpy, but we loved him. He went across the rainbow bridge in June 2009.”
“When Puxy passed we projected our own feelings on Maddy and thought she was sad and would be happier with another dog. After going to a dog show and meeting some Swedish Vallhunds in person (we had only seen them in dog books), we decided to find one (they are pretty hard to find).”
“We brought Loki home and he was a cute little ball of energy, but Maddy wasn’t all that thrilled.”
(yawn)
She was a grandmother, after all …
“We got Izzy for Loki so he could have his own own orange kitty, and he loves her. Anthony really wanted Loki to have a “sibling” to grow up with, however, and that’s when we found our Cardigan Welsh Corgi Olive.”
“Olive came to live with us at seven months old. She had lived with Vallhunds before, so she fit in perfectly at our house/zoo. She and Loki together are fun and crazy, and as silly as it sounds, it was a great thing for Loki. Although Loki is a sweet boy with a passive personality who lets Olive boss him around, he loves her company. At times, she likes to grab on to that Val tail.”
“Maddy just hoped the two younger dogs would leave her alone to enjoy looking out the window and her walks around the block.”
“In June, Maddy developed nasty infection that we were treating, followed by a kidney issue and then they found a mass. It was so hard to do, but my husband and I feel like it was the right thing to do to let her go to the bridge.”
“The house just isn’t the same without her.”
FIP (frap in peace), dear Maddy!
“Although Olive is a spitfire with a very strong personality, she’s the most lovely and affectionate little thing.”
“She’s a typical Corgi who barks at moving grass or at a squirrel five houses down. My husband is getting frustrated with the barking, so I have to remind him that Maddy was like this in her younger days.”
“Olive and Loki will grow old together …
… with the itty bitty orange kitty Izzy.”
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You guys are a great crew!
Welcome to The Daily Corgi (including Izzy, who gets honorary dual feline/canine status).
Love the story! So I wonder if most female Corgi's are as you describe because that's my Sophie to a T. Baxter grew up with a kitty but she went over the rainbow bridge and he is afraid of every other kitty.
I am glad they have each other. I think it's harder for us to see them alone than it is for them. I never can quite tell if Baxter is happy we got Sophie or annoyed with us 🙂
I'm sorry for the loss of your fantastic corgi's but they were obviously well loved and its awesome to see a Vallhund my husband and I are thinking of adopting a Vallhund in the near future we have a wonderful female pembroke and our roommate has a young tuxedo kitten who she basically adopted as her own and he now thinks hes a puppy and not a kitten