I’m Entering Mango Minster 2012… by Dott

Can you BELIEVE it!?!  It is January again, and time for Mango Minster, the premier Dog Blog Dog Show, hosted by none other than our HUGE friend, Mango the Mastiff!  He and his mom put on the BEST Dog show each year, and put in TONS of work on making it fun for everyone.  Even if you don’t enter, there are great adventures, contests and games featured by Mango’s furiends, and he has a TON of them!!!

A couple of years ago, OC even got to be one of the judges, and Grammy provided one of the First Place Prizes… a portrait of the winner, which was Clive, a Golden Doodle Helper Dog to his autistic friend.

We JUST found out about this year’s Mango Minster last night when Grammy FINALLY felt well enough to get online and let us visit some of our old friends.  One of the classes is “Too Darn Cute!” and when my Dad found out about that, he said that I HAD to enter!  That’s what he’s called me from the time I was born… EVERY DAY… SEVERAL times a DAY!!!

Dad says I am cute when I’m sleeping with my toy squirrel,  

 And cute when I’m out doing “Squirrel Patrol” for REAL squirrels.

He says I’m cute from the front (I was sneezing). 

and cute from the back  (I was bowing).   

He says both sides of my profile are cute, too!   

He laughs and says I’m cute when I’m dirty  

 and cute when I’m clean…

He snickers and says I’m cute when I’m ANGRY  (wouldn’t YOU be!) 

 

And cute when I’m angelic…

He even said I was cute when I was FAT  (I was in the family way) 

and cute when I am thin!

He says I’m especially cute when I do my tricks… Here I am with my "Hands up..."

And here are a few more on this video.



  

Do YOU think I’m cute enough to win?  Are you “SQUEEEEEing” yet?

Soapy Saturday continued...

It's NOT FAIR!  BG got HIS bath BEFORE Papa came out with the camera!  I was having a blast, playing with the water hose while Grammy soaped and washed everyone else!

Suddenly, she called MY name...  Uh, OH...

She turned the hose on me... I guess I HAD gotten a bit muddy on my toes... :(

GRAMMY!!!  You KNOW I HATE baths!

Do you SEE the LOOK in these eyes!  I am NOT happy!  I'm going to be all fluffy for a WEEK now!

I HATE Baths! By Dott

Have I ever mentioned that I HATE Baths!!! 

I REALLY don’t think that a little oil from under the car is a good reason to subject me to THIS!! (Grammy: Look at that filthy water under her!)

I am NOT happy! 

IT’S MINE!!! by Dott

Grammy gave it to ME…

YOU can’t have it! 

I’m just not hungry right now, but IT’S MINE!

GO AWAY!!! 

It is MY Vienna Sausage, and YOU CAN’T HAVE IT!!! 

WHAT!? What’s going on?!

THAT was a DIRTY TRICK! No fair everyone barking until I just HAD to go find out what was going on! This wouldn't have happened if my Dad hadn't been snatched by that mean old "Job" person!!!

Mmmm… 

P.S. We just found a brand new blog written by Miss Julie Welsh, from Corgi Manor. She’s another feisty corgi and looks like she will be a fun friend to know. Her blog is called, Bark of Love, and you might want to check it out!   (I just fixed the link as I had it in wrong for some reason when this first posted...)

Sadness.. By The Country Corgi Crew

Grammy says we are going to have to “drop back and punt,” whatever that means. I gather we are going to have a “do over” as there was a misunderstanding this evening and a comment with the answer got posted before the time limit. 

Robert was trying to help while Grammy was at the hospital with Papa visiting his Aunt, and didn’t know about the change in available time. What we are going to do is accept Rachel & Bender’s comment, but we will have a MMMM #4.5 next time.

This will probably NOT be this next Monday, as Papa’s Aunt passed away this evening and they will be busy with funeral arrangements, etc. the rest of this week and weekend.

We are so sorry that Happy lost his New Mom, and we know that Papa is hurting and will have a lot of stuff to take care of over the next few weeks, as he is the only close relative that she had.

Grammy says that we may not be able to post for a while, as she might not have a lot of time to let us on the computer. She said “We will see…” when we asked her. We will be back as soon as we can, and we will miss you all a lot!

Did we have a Winner? By Mercy

The Miss Mercy Monday Mystery is a game to see who can sniff through the clues and come up with the correct answers to WIN!!! If we have more than one pup/person who gets all the answers, then we will have a Corgi Toss to chose the winner.


There were three questions to answer this week to solve the mystery: 1. What was the contraption in the picture, 2. Who used it, and 3. Why?



Remember, the clues to the answer were in the Tidbit Post. There was a link to our post about the 100 Dog Year Squirrel War, and there was this picture with the name, who used it and why: “Our battle [with the squirrels] started way back, in the days of cat –i– pults and tre-bow-shays, with Grandpa Buddy and Grandma Misty manning the huge “feline” flinging machines.” 1. It was a cat-a-pult or tre-bow-shay 2. Buddy & Misty 3. To fling things at the squirrels [in the fight…].


Mango, Khyra, Dory, and Dozer all got the answer to the first question right on the name of the machine. No one got the second question’s answer correct. I would have taken Buddy, Mist, JR, or even OC as they were all involved in this era of the war.


Twinkietinydog, Betty & Koda from A Corgi in S. California, and Dory all got the third answer by saying that it was used for fighting squirrels.




Dory came the closest, because she got two of the three answers needed, but this isn’t horseshoes (that’s a people joke about getting close and has NOTHING to do with real horse’s shoes) so no cigar (which is ANOTHER people joke, but I don’t even think THAT’s very funny because who would want to win one of THOSE nasty things!) Our prizes will be better than cigars, believe ME… and you also get awarded one of our MMMM Winner buttons which you can see in the side bar!


I did go back and leave a comment with a hint in it to try to help… I’m sorry we didn’t have a winner this week either, but better luck next time, and maybe, with these two practices, we will award a prize next time. We might not have a Mystery contest every week, once we get our first winner. We might go to every other Monday after that.


After we have 5 winners, we will do a Corgi Toss of those names and the grand prize will be the winner’s choice of, EITHER one of Dott’s books (See a preview of the first few pages HERE or click the preview button in our sidebar), OR a $20 gift certificate to our Country Corgi CafePress store.


We hope you will join us on our next Miss Mercy Monday Mystery, and good luck to you all!