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Mum and me.
Cardigan corgis
We are different from the Pembrokes - quite a little larger. We should be a yard long! Yard dog - get it!
Our front feet turn out like Queen Anne chairs. Pembrokes can't do that. Lots of Cardigan corgis are black and white like me, but there are also reds, tri-colours and blue merles.
And our ears are really special - all the better to hear you with. It is claimed we have the best hearing of any dogs in the world. Pembrokes used to have their tails docked. Cardigans have always had big tails. Look for the white tip.
 
 
 
Crufts
"I qualified for Crufts in 2010 - in fact I qualified four times over. But I didn't make it to the show. I was playing in the snow and ice and had a little footballing accident. I had to have a pin in my back leg and was recuperating at Crufts show time. At least I escaped from the hairdrying. My owner even bought me a special rosette with my posh name on; it says I am a Crufts qualifier. I thought she was going to make me wear it. But thank goodness she pinned it on the kitchen curtains instead. I expect she hopes someone will think it is for her award-winning cooking!

"Woof - here is a picture of Mum - Maggie - and me taken at a show. Mum is a real champion and has won loads of best of breeds etc. I am never going to be a show champion but mum still seems quite proud of me. Her Kennel Club name is Yardican Diamond Drop. Dad is a Finnish Champion called Mandylay's Ultimately Blue."

Table Manners
 
Here I am practising on the table, standing and trying to look cute and intelligent for the judge. Think "Eyes and teeth", then "Feet and Tail". It is quite exhausting all the things to remember.
 
 
Well, with all that practice on the table I found another table and stole a steak ready for the barbeque. Ho, ho, woof, woof. My owner is such a soft touch that she never told me off! Yum, yum. Table manners. My little reward.
 
And this is a picture of my mum, Maggie, with owner, Margo Hackney, with loads of lovely rosettes won by Maggie in Ireland.
 
 
 
 
Shows
"Woof - my owner has dragged me off to various shows. I quite enjoy them. Many of the dogs are really fun. I don't do terribly well because I get confused about whether I should sit down or stand up. At home I sit whenever strangers come up to me. At shows I have to stand. Frankly it gets a bit wearing and I prefer to sit. My owner has been known to stick her left foot under my tummy to remind me about standing. It is a toss up whether golf or being shown is more boring."
Companion Shows
Now they really are fun. You have to be really smart to compete in those. We do clever things like compete for the dog with the best ears, the one with the waggiest tail, dog and owner most alike, the best puppy (when I was a little scrap) and the dog and owner most bonded.My owner and I won that at one show.
 
I got a little frightened when there was a special class for the dog the judge would most like to take home. The judge didn't seem as nice as my owner and I was really scared of winning and having to go home with the judge. I think that is a horrid class. Imagine going to a show and having to leave with someone else.
 
 This is me practising making horrid faces
so that the judge would not want to take me home. It takes lots of practise to look this ugly.
 
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